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Photo: Alan Haig Brown/Cummins

Clockwise, starting top left: This sight seeing barge on the Tachin River is similar to what Khun Kanitha started with for her dinner boat; Key to overseeing construction of the dinner boat are Khun Akaraphol, Operations Manager, Khun Somphong, Executive Chef, Khun Thanyatorn, Marketing Manager and Khun Sunisa, Assistant Training and Development

Manager; Ayudhaya’s wood shipwrights are among the best in Thailand; The modern Cummins-powered genset can meet all the power needs of a modern commercial kitchen.

Teak Dinner Cruise: For the Chao Phraya River isitors to Thailand, like the Thai traditional Thai food is Baan Khanitha, properly express her love of the Chao cookers. For maintaining the freshness people themselves, invariably with four unique locations around Bang- Phraya River that ? ows from the ancient of the food she has a bank of coolers, she comment on the diversity and kok. The restaurants are named for the capital of Ayudhaya and winds through has installed two dish washers, one for

V complexity of Thai food. It is the result owner, a former Thai silk fashion de- the city. With the addition of Baan Kha- plates and the other for glasses and stem of many centuries of re? nement and a signer, Khun Kanitha Akaranitikul. The nitha Cruise she will have achieved her ware. To keep the wine for the stem ware dedication to fresh ingredients. From the name means literally, “the home of Kha- goal to give dinners an opportunity to at just the right temperature the kitchen beach restaurants of Phuket to the river- nitha”, and each is designed with that take a leisurely cruise through the city has a wine cooler. Intake and exhaust side restaurants of Bangkok, the food is personal touch. while dinning on board. The river al- blowers along with air-conditioning will a great national theme. Much as Khun Khanitha enjoys her ready has a number of huge dinner boats keep the below deck kitchen fresh for the

One of the favoured restaurants for restaurant homes, she has longed to that take bus loads of tour groups on the kitchen crew.

river for a quick meal and tour. Khun As a sightseeing boat, the teak barge

Khanitha, wanting to replicate the ? ne required only a propulsion engine and a dinning experience of her restaurants, small generator. Now, with the extensive- decided on something quite different. In ly equipped modern kitchen there was a

S G BHAFT ROUNDING RUSHES days gone by the Chao Phraya River was need for much more electrical power. To ? lled with beautifully shaped teak-wood be assured of a reliable source for this

Are stray electrical currents destroying your rice barges. Some of these have had en- Khun Khanitha approached Khun Sa- bearings and seals?

gines installed and operate as tour boats. thit Suwanprasert of DKSH (Thailand), Khun Khanitha found one of these and the Thai distributor of Cummins Marine ?S ELF CLEANING had it taken up the river to Ayudhaya, Diesels. Khun Sathit set the boat up with ?O PERATE DRY OR IN OIL where some of the best wood workers a Cummins 4BTA 3.9-liter generator en- ?G / OLD SILVER BRISTLES reside. She wanted the Thai tradition gine powering a 30 kW Stamford gen- ?L ITTLE OR NO MAINTENANCE of teak elegance but she also wanted a erator. This will provide ample power for ?C AN BE SERVICED DURING OPERATION state-of-the-art kitchen for her chefs. To the kitchen but also for the vessel’s light- ?C AN ALSO TRANSMIT INSTRUMENT SIGNALS FROM ROTOR WITHOUT do this, it was necessary to raise the main ing and entertainment systems. A factory

SPECIAL SLIPRINGS deck to make room in the hull for the supplied control panel, located at the en- stainless steel kitchen. Teak has become gine, provides key start, emergency shut a rare commodity, but the shipwrights down and a full set of relevant gauges. scoured the area for old houses and other Set aft of the main engine in the stern sources of timbers that they carefully of the hull amidst massive teak tim- re-sawed and shaped into the desired bers, the powerful generator represents dimensions for fabricating every thing a fusion of all that is best in ? ne food from doors to window frames. preparation in a maritime tradition. As a

In melding the tradition of ? ne Thai fully equipped ? oating restaurant set on food and ? ne teak woodwork, Khun Kha- a brightly ? nished teak hull, the Baan nitha is creating a spectacular experience Khanitha Cruise will represent an excit-

SOHRE TURBOMACHINERY ® for visiting and local dinners. But when ing addition to water-borne traf? c on the it comes to the kitchen, she has departed Chao Phraya River.

:::62+5(785%2&20?,1)2#62+5(785%2&20 from the old time tradition of charcoal 3+?0216210$66$&+86(77686$ cooking in favour of modern gas ? red Alan Haig-Brown 52 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • FEBRUARY 2017

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