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Pride Onboard New

Seahorse Supply Boat

Nothing speaks to the quality of a boat more strongly than her skipper's pride of command. That pride is clearly evident when Capt. Philip Gaudet shows a guest through the M/V Capt. Rudy an immaculate new boat from Bollinger

Shipyards' Lockport Louisiana facility.

At 165 x 36-ft. with an 12-ft. molded depth, this is an expanded version of

Bollinger's successful 145-ft. mini sup- ply boat with the greater part of its length aft of the three story deck house.

However entering the galley from the 110 x 30-ft. cargo deck one finds oneself in an ample but cozy galley and mess area.

Down from there takes one to the engine room where the boats main engines, a pair of 1,000 hp Cummins

KTA38 M0 delivering a combined 2,000 hp at 1,800 rpm hold the central place in an equally immaculate and well laid out engine room. Forward of the main engines a Cummins N14 drives a 270 bhp Schottel bow thruster.

Electrical power is provided by a pair of

Cummins 6CTA-powered 99 kW gener- ators. A walkway leads aft between the liquid mud tanks with combined capaci- ty of 1,250 barrels. Tankage is built in for 57,200 gallons of fuel, 64,200 gal- lons of potable water and 44,000 gallons of methanol or jet fuel. The deck can accommodate 506 long tons of cargo.

Taking his guest up to the spacious wheelhouse, further reason for Capt.

Gaudet's pride is apparent in the spa- cious pilot house with well laid out DP- linked fore and aft controls. From the aft controls the visibility aft to the stern is clear and unobstructed. Designated a mega-mini supply boat, the craft is named for Capt. Rudy Lefort who cap- tained the first Bollinger 145-foot mini supply boats.

Capt. Rudy Main Particulars

Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bollinger Shipyard

Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 ft. ()

Breadth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 ft. ()

Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 ft. ()

Maine engines . . . . . . . . . .2 x Cummins KTA38 M0

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000 hp

Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,800 rpm

Bowthruster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schottel

ECO Wins $241.5M

Navy Contract

Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO),

Galliano, La., is being awarded a $26,616,165 firm fixed price contract with additional reimbursables for the time charter of one Offshore Petroleum

Discharge System (OPDS). The OPDS system provides rapid, mobile transfer of fuel from offshore tankers to U.S. military fuel storage facilities ashore when conventional fuel transfer facili- ties are unavailable. Each OPDS system includes one new-build support vessel and one tender. The vessels covered under this contract are to be named in the future. This contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to a total of $241,457,294. Work will be performed in the Guam/Saipan area, but are deployable worldwide, and is expected to be October 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The U.S. Navy's

Military Sealift Command, Washington,

D.C., is the contracting authority.

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