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Workboat Annual 2003 • Great Boats of 2003

Name Levanto Secondo

Type ASD Tug

Builder Damen

Owner SCAFI

Levanto Secondo is a Damen Azimuth

Stern Drive Tug 2810 delivered in

October 2002, to SCAFI, an Italian operator. The design of the Azimuth

Stern Drive 2810 has been completely prepared to comply with U.S. tonnage rules and USCG-requirements, so that it can be of interest and use to the U.S. market as well. Levanto Secondo is the second vessel of this type, ordered by

SCAFI. and it will be used in the harbor of La Spezia in the northern part of Italy.

The ASD Tug 2810 has a round bilge hull with a transom stern and a rounded bow. The transom corners are well rounded and the forecastle gives suffi- cient bow height for severe working conditions. The hull is divided into five compartments and features 10 mm side and bottom plating, and 8mm deck plat- i

H ing. Bottom plating in the thruster area is increased to 12 mm, and the sheer- strake has a plate thickness of 15 mm.

A pair of nine-cylinder Wartsilii 9L20 engines (1,620 kW (2,172 bhp) at 1.000 rpm each) power Levanto Secondo, driving Schottel SRP 1212 thrusters, with CP propellers. On the fore deck and on the aft deck Kraaijeveld towing winches are fitted. The brake holding power of both winches is 130 tons, and both winches have stainless steel rims with band brakes and friction clutches.

The fore winch is of the single drum type, suitable for 150 m synthetic rope of 80 mm diameter. The pull of the fore winch is 10 tons at 20 m/min., or 20 tons at 10 m/min. The aft winch can store 200 m synthetic rope of 80 mm diameter and has a pull and speed of 10 tons at 20 m/min or 20 tons at 10 m/min. The ropes used on the fore and aft winch run through stainless steel triangular fair- leads integrated in the towing bitt. On the aft deck a Kraaijeveld capstan of 3.5 ton pull is arranged, and a Mampaey towing hook of 65 ton Safe Working

Load is fitted.

Name

Type

Builder

Owner

Mm CS

June K

Tug

A+B

Kosnac

Circle 351 on Reader Service Card 38

Kosnac Floating Derrick Corp. of

Staten Island, NY took delivery of the 2,700 hp June K, the company's first twin-screw tug and its first new build after three generations of Kosnac family management. "We took everything we learned from 75 years of using other peoples' boats in New York waters," said

Capt. Fred Kosnac, "and put it into a design specifically adapted to the wide- ranging conditions of New York harbor and the rivers that flow into it."

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