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tonnage frames or tonnage openings and is certified under U.S. Coast Guard

Subchapter T. Power is via four

Cummins KTA-38 engines. The main deck cabin can hold 100 passengers and the vessel can hold 30.000 gallons of fuel and 35.000 gallons of water.

Delivery is November of this year.

The forecast for the next couple of years is very positive for the crew/sup- ply boat industry. The yards have only a few slots open for 2005 deliveries. There is proof positive that drilling will pickup in 2005. so they outlook for crew/supply

The Workboat Annual boat construction looks good. The crew/supply boat yards stayed busy dur- ing the down times of 2003-4, so there is real optimism that the years ahead will be positive for construction of these speedy and increasingly versatile ves- sels.

Both of the Neuville Boat Works fabrication build- ing are busy with two 160-footers. On the left is a vessel for Seacor and on the right a crew/sup- ply vessel for Iberia Crew Boat Rentals, both for 2005 delivery.

T/l and is ABS classed A-l, HSC

Crewboat and AMS with Load Line.

Currently Neuville has two vessels under construction: a 160-ft. x 30-ft. vessel for Iberia Crew Boat Rental for

February 2005 delivery and a 160-ft. x 30-ft. vessel for Seacor with five

Cummins KT-38 engines for September 2005 delivery

Gulf Craft, Patterson, La. remains as one of the most active builders of crew boats. They seem to specialize in the larger, more technological advanced vessels.

In 2004 they built a pair of 155-ft.x 27- ft. crew supply boats for Seacor and the third 175-ft. x 30-ft. water jet powered vessel to join the Seacor fleet over the past 15 months. Called the Joyce

McCall, it is powered by four Cummins

KT-50 engines coupled to four Hamilton

HM-811 water jets. Maximum speed is 32 knots. Twin Cummins BT series gensets produce 99 kW of electricity each.

In keeping with its rating of DP-1 by

ABS, the vessel has both a 200 hp drop- down bow thruster and a 150 hp tunnel type bow thruster. Ther tunnel thruster is driven by a Cummins 6CT series engine.

The main deck cabin passenger seat- ing is arranged with 50 seats in Business

Class and 14 in VIP Class.

At the present time, Gulf Craft has a 180-ft. crew/supply vessel under con- struction for Seacor for February 2005 delivery and a sister ship that will join the Seacor fleet in September 2005.

Gulf Craft also builds vessels other than crew/supply boats. Under construc- tion now is the Big E, a 125-ft. x 26-ft. party fishing boat for March delivery and Marquette II, an 80-ft. x 26-ft. pas- senger boat for September completion.

As noted in September MarineNews,

Conrad Industries has opened aluminum yard in Amelia, La. to handle new con- struction and repair of aluminum ves- sels. Its first new vessel is a 180-ft. water jet powered vessel for Diamond

Services, also of Amelia. The vessel was designed by A.K. Suda, Inc., Metairie,

La. The vessel is designed without deep

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