FREEDOM

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Ken Hocke

摘要:In June, Vessel Repair Inc., Port Arthur, Texas, delivered the steel-hulled 100'×34'×10'9" towboat Freedom to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The boat was designed by Sterling Marine, Fairhope Ala. It has a draft of 9'5" and a deadweight tonnage of 479 gt. The towboat is reportedly the first Tier 4 towboat commissioned by a government agency and joins the exclusive ranks of the few Tier 4-pow-ered towboats that navigate the inland waterways, according to TVA officials. Main propulsion comes from two Caterpillar 3512E Tier 4 engines, each generating 1,341 hp. The Cats, supplied by Thompson CAT, Nashville, Tenn., are paired with Twin Disc MGX-5600 gears from Sewart Supply, Morgan City, La. The 5-blad-ed, 58"x85" propellers were supplied by Sound Propeller Services, Seattle.

Captain's Table

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Alan Bernstein

摘要:The Coast Guard needs to determine the impact and effectiveness of its Streamlined Inspection Program (SIP). That is the title of a recently released report by the Office of the U.S. Inspector General (OIG), which conducted an audit to determine the extent to which enrolled vessels comply with the SIP. The OIG essentially made three observations: SIP has not established or implemented key Performance Indicators, SIP may not be operating as intended, and SIP's impact on the Coast Guard's mission success is unknown." While this is probably not good news for the Coast Guard or for the SIP, I believe that much of this negativity is rooted in a lack of understanding, by both the Coast Guard and industry, of the actual benefits of the program. My company, BB River-boats, joined SIP in 1998 with one vessel, the M/V River Queen. By 2000 our entire fleet was enrolled in the program. My plan is to enroll our two harbor towboats in SIP in 2024.

Headwinds

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Jim Redden

摘要:As pleas for government assistance mount, the odds of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power coursing through the nation's transmission lines by 2030 are growing longer. The pendulum has indeed swung against offshore wind as Northeast developers lump insufficient federal and state tax relief with skyrocketing costs, nagging supply chain bottlenecks and cumbersome permitting for, at best, delaying project start-ups. 0rsted's bombshell decision on Oct. 31 to scrap two wind farms under development off New Jersey put a punctuation mark on a year that saw no less than 4.7 GW of planned wind power temporarily, or perhaps permanently scrapped. That's not to say some projects haven't advanced on schedule, particularly for the consortiums that managed to lock in supplier contracts before inflation and interest rates rose. As of late November, a combined 932 megawatts of first power were on target to begin flowing through the grid at year-end 2023 from two wind farms off Massachusetts and New York. (The first of 12 turbines began delivering power in early December to New York's Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) grid, marking the first utility-scale wind generation in U.S. federal waters.).

Hot Boats

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Michael Crowley

摘要:MetalCraft Marine's Bob Clark loves talking about small boats, especially small boats his company builds. "The one that's really hot is the 43/44," he said, referring to MetalCraft's 43'1"×l4'4" FireStorm 40. "Five are on order and five new orders are coming in." Many of these boats - 60% in fact -are fireboats and some will be combination fire and police boats. "Why have two boats when you can have one boat that solves two problems?" said Clark, who added that his Kingston, Ontario-based company made sure to feature multimission boats at the 2023 International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans recently. Clark said the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, has two FireStorm 40s and a FireStorm 70 (70'10"×22'10"). Both boats combine fire and police functions. He expects to build a FireStorm 40 for the city of San Diego that will also be crewed by both fire and police department staff. "It just makes so much sense," said Clark. "You satisfy both groups."

SHACKLEFORD

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Bruce Buls

摘要:To Chris Freeman, an ocean surveyor and cofounder of Geody-namics, Newport, N.C., the boat that carries his sonars and other tools of the trade is more than just a platform to transport him and his equipment. "We consider the boat as a precision survey instrument, purpose-built for the specific survey environment and then wrapped around the ideal sensors for a specific set of missions," he said in a statement. "This holistic approach to our vessel builds has proven successful time and again but requires a builder open to an uncompromised data-centric build." Geodynamics (an NV5 company) took delivery of its newest - and biggest - vessel, the 73'×26.7' Shack-leford from All American Marine, Bellingham, Wash., in April. The hydrofoil-assisted aluminum catamaran was designed by Teknicraft Design in New Zealand.

WORK BOAT LOOKS BACK

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摘要:• The Coast Guard buoy tender Buck-thord went down the ways at Mobile Ship Repair Yard, Mobile, Ala., in December, without ceremony and without its superstructure. It was the third vessel constructed and launched in the six months since the reactivation of the company's Blakeley Island operations in March 1963. The 100' tender, is powered by twin Caterpillar diesels with a total of 660 hp. Final outfitting will take place some time in February. • St. Louis Shipbuilding-Federal Barge Inc. recently completed the delivery of six 195'×35'×11' hopper barges equipped with rolling covers to Peavey Finance Co., Minneapolis, and is building two 240'×50'×l2' single-skin liquid barges for Southern Towing Co., Caruthersville, Mo. The two barges are the 14th and 15th barges of this type that the shipyard has built for Southern.

OVER-THE-HORIZON CUTTER BOATS

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Arnie Hammerman

摘要:Bremerton, Wash.-based Inven-tech Marine Solutions built and delivered four 25'6"×8'6" production model fifth-generation over-the-horizon cutter boats (CB-OTH-V) to the Coast Guard last summer. The boats are part of a $104 million contract. The Coast Guard will test them in the field for several months to provide technical feedback. WorkBoat was invited to ride along during one of the boat's test runs. These lead production boats will allow the Coast Guard to assess and request, if necessary, changes in ergonomics, equipment, and parts choices. All CB-OTH-Vs are the same even though they will be on different types of cutters and operate in widely different environments. These first boats have been sent to Hawaii, New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida so that they can be tested on multiple oceans and in a variety of conditions.

On the Water

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Joel Milton

摘要:In last month's column I introduced the concept of the "10th man rule," which states that if nine people in a group of 10 agree on an issue, the 10th must take the opposite position and and argue for that position. The rule can help prevent serious mistakes or disasters that we often plan and execute our way into, typically at the managerial or organizational level, because of the cognitive blind spots humans are inherently plagued with. Those blind spots can be very costly in the short and long term. But what about at the actual operational level we work at? Is there a way to adapt and incorporate the 10th man principles, in some form, into the decision-making process on board your vessel? The potential exists to do it, but it's a tall order for most of us.

NEWS LOG

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Kirk Moore

摘要:The first of 12 South Fork Wind turbines began delivering power in December to New York's Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) grid, marking the first utility-scale wind generation in U.S. federal waters, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. "New York's nation-leading efforts to generate reliable, renewable clean energy have reached a major milestone," said Hochul. "South Fork Wind will power thousands of homes, create good-paying union jobs and demonstrate to all that offshore wind is a viable resource New York can harness for generations to come." Joint venture partners Orsted and Eversource recently installed two of the turbines 35 miles east of Montauk, N.Y., and expect to have all turbines installed by early 2024 with a maximum capacity of 130 megawatts. Like neighboring Northeast states, New York officials and energy planners have ambitious plans for renewable energy, including 9 gigawatts of offshore wind power capacity by 2035.

Midi-SOV designed to fill vessel gap in offshore wind

[国外交通期刊数据库] 作者:Ben Hayden

摘要:UK-based naval architect Chartwell Marine Ltd. and Vard have unveiled a new ship design for the offshore wind market - the 180'×52.5'×l4.8' Midi-SOV. The vessel is designed to address the gap between current crew transfer vessels (CTVs) and larger service operation vessels (SOVs). The Midi-SOV concept was developed by Chartwell Marine in response to the demand for larger CTVs servicing bigger turbine installations farther from shore. The vessel is designed to be Jones Act compliant and ready for construction in U.S. shipyards. The SOV is set to debut in U.S. and European markets in 2024. Karl Randle, principal naval architect at Vard, spoke to the unanswered questions that began the partnership. "How could we find a vessel that's in the middle, that hits the perfect price point but also gives the technicians a more comfortable, habitable place to work, rest, and then do safe operation so they can be more efficient without needing to do transits every day?" asked Karl Randle, principal naval architect at Vard.