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- Safe Boats Wins 700- Boat, $145-M Contract Maritime Reporter, May 2003 #17
The Coast Guard will purchase up to 700 new Defender Class Response Boats from SAFE Boats International of Port Orchard, Wash. The new Defender Class boats, which will be used in homeland security missions, will replace nearly 300 non-standard shore based boats and provide a standardized platform for the Coast Guard's new Maritime Safety and Security Teams (MSST's) which were established as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Coast Guard selected SAFE Boats International to manufacture the boats after a two-phased process. Three vendors were selected from written proposals to produce a prototype of their design. The total value of the contract is $145 million. Each boat will cost approximately $180,000. The 25-ft.

(7.6-m) Response Boats, "add valuable capability to the Coast Guard as well as being more efficient in terms of training and costs," said Capt. James Maes, Acting Chief, Officer of Boat Forces.

The boats have increased maneuverability and are capable of speeds in excess of 40 knots (46 mph) with twin outboard engines. The full cabin provides crew protection from the elements and is equipped with a state of the art navigation system, heater, shock mitigating seats and a communication system capable of communicating with other Federal, State and Local Homeland Security partners. The boat is also designed to be transportable by road or by C-130 aircraft." Delivery of the first boat is expected in July 2003 and will continue to arrive at Coast Guard units at a minimum of two per week. The Coast Guard will purchase up to 700 boats as needed over the next seven years and represents the largest single acquisition of identical response craft ever purchased by the Coast Guard.

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- SAFE Boats: Keeping ’Em Coming Marine News, Jun 2022 #34
Despite all of the challenges that COVID-19 has wrought upon the marine industry, SAFE Boats International has managed to keep building and delivering boats to its customers. A snapshot of the last six months has seen the Bremerton, Wash. boatbuilder deliver more 30 boats, and it has a healthy backlog to
- Silverback Marine Brings Fresh Blood—and Ideas—to Boatbuilding Marine News, Sep 2022 #38
Tacoma, Wash.-based Silverback Marine is a relatively new name in boatbuilding, formed with the tall ambition to “change the way the world thinks about workboats”.“We started Silverback with the vision of essentially bringing, what I would call, the big boat experience to smaller workboats. Enabling people to
- For Fireboats, The Heat is On Marine News, Dec 2019 #46
to deliver on a raft of promises is Gulf Coast-based Metal Shark. Significantly expanding its presence in the fireboat market with a diverse range of fireboats currently in production for multiple customers, the company recently has announced a contract for a custom “70 Defiant” fireboat to be built for Canaveral

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Figure 1 A self-righting vehicle design with buoyancy high and weight low, WHOI’s SeaBED AUV captures the attention of a pair of curious Antarctic penguins as it is deployed from the British research vessel James Clark Ross. Vehicle designers allowed for temperature reduction of battery capacity. Recharge
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Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs Zero-Emission Mooring Service of a Tanker Consulmar achieved a milestone by executing what it calls ing boat Castalia, which operates on full electric propulsion. the world's ? rst zero-emissions mooring service for a tanker. Equipped with two 150 kW
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Float Foundation, suitable for ? xed turbines in water depths of up to 45 meters, can be built at a shipyard or dock, and it only needs two tugboats, and no offshore lifts, for installation. There’s a second crane race underway, though, this time on- shore where components are stored and assembled
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, an energized U.S. shipbuilding and repair base, an orderbook early movers, to head for the exit. While the cost of project packed with new ships and boats to feed this emerging market. delays and cancellations have a real impact on the players that While that has yet to transpire, Lanford assesses the
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hydro-acoustic design of a propulsor that delays cavitation meets its underwater noise limits. This will require specialized inception and cavitating area. The third approach should be test sites or specialized mobile underwater testing equipment. isolation mounting of a vibro-active equipment and
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Training Tips for Ships © By tuastockphoto/AdobeStock Tip #58 Enhancing Behavior-Based Safety By Murray Goldberg, CEO, Marine Learning Systems ave you ever heard the term “Behaviour-Based environment where each individual feels personally respon- Safety”? Although the term itself is relatively sible for
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Products 1 2 VETUS Maxwell In-Mar Solutions 3 Furuno ABB 4 for workboat operators encompasses EH Group 1. Heavy Duty 5 three large-sized MFDs with wide, all- Windscreen Wiper glass displays: the 16” TZT16X, 22” Heavy-duty wiper has a thermal cut- TZT22X and 24” TZT24X. Powered out in
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transport wind service technicians to projects at sea. A-O-S, which plans to expand its CTV ? eet with the growth company’s ? rst. Constructed by Blount Boats in Warren, R.I., the 100-foot-long aluminum catamaran is owned and of the U.S. offshore wind industry, currently has vessels on order at Blount
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Feature Electric Tugs could change down the road. “What do we really need an In San Diego, eWolf’s transits will typically run 20-30 engineer to do? There are no moving parts. So, how does minutes, “not the optimal operation to really see a lot of that [role] change? How does that change where we work?
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Feature Electric Tugs the construction of which has fallen behind schedule. “When you’re out on the leading edge of these technolo- gies, everything has to catch up,” Manzi said. “Permitting has to catch up, regulation has to catch up, standards have to catch up. And we’ve faced all three of those challenge
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of electrical power on commercial vessels is not they are,” he explained. “Typically, the grating height of new, and Rice and his team have been building boats that the machinery space off the tank top is somewhere around www.marinelink.com MN 33
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, the ? rst of three CTVs for an earlier contract with Windea CTV LLC. Other shipyards known to be build- ing CTVs at the moment include Blount Boats and Sensesco Marine, both in Rhode Island, as well as Met- al Shark, Breaux Brothers and Gulf Craft in Louisiana and Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding
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Feature Shipbuilding Crowley Crowley’s electric tug eWolf, built by Master Boat Builders. Administration (MARAD) put a cost of $97 million on the ulatory ? lings, the vessel “is expected to be delivered and vessel. The same yard has also been contracted to build an operational in 2025.” Filings with
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for two 92-foot escort tugs, with design by Robert Allan, Ltd. to be built for Moran Towing, based in Connecticut. Though us- ing conventional fuel, the boats will feature Caterpillar 3516 EPA Tier 4 main engines. The yard is also building two small- er 86-foot tugs for Moran, also set to handle ship assist
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Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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those impacts while preserving navigational safety.” Commercial vessel navigation is just one competing ocean issue, of course. Commercial ? shing boats can have similar concerns, but also very different concerns, since ? shing vessels, to reach ? sh and gear, may need to move in and out of designated
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Feature Navigation inside the approved lease area as a requirement under the BOEM’s attention to the USCG’s recent 27-page Federal terms and conditions of a speci? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along
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Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so
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Q&A Increasingly, cyber security has been gaining focus as an area of concern across maritime supply chains, and recently the Coast Guard has been tasked with creating and enforcing maritime cyber standards. What do you hope to see from these standards as they are drafted and put to use? Two key
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Images Seaspan Corporation/Foreship With plans to have a full-scale test engine running on am- age it'll be similar to LNG.” Looking at the engine makers and monia in early 2024, the company said it expects to hold its de- their progress, Brindley is diplomatic in saying that there is no livery timeline
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15,000 TEU AMMONIA CONTAINERSHIP 000 TEU Containership the problematic area of adding carbon like you have with other alternative fu- “Safety has been at the els. When you start to add components center of the design, and into that, carbon is one of the most dif- it will continue to be so ? cult ones