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Its name will be the Research Vessel Explorer, and when the 45′×l5′6″ shipwreck research and scuba diving vessel is launched in the spring of 2022 it will be the first boat built by Delaware Bay Shipbuilding. That's a new boat-builder in Leesburg, N.J., headed up by Mike Tilsner and Eric Berg, who, previous to starting their own boatyard, boasted over 25 years of combined experience building large aluminum vessels at Yank Marine in Tuckahoe, N.J. Mike LeMole of LeMole Naval Architecture in Vine-land, N.J., and Steve Pollard of Specmar in Scappoose, Ore., designed the research vessel for Rustin Cassway, owner of Research Vessel Explorer LLC, Cape May, N.J. Cassway describes his current boat "as a 42′ Chesapeake Bay boat" that operates from Cape May to Virginia. "But with the new boat we'll probably head as far south as Florida." He'll be able to do that because the Research Vessel Explorer is longer, about one-third wider, and in general "a much better platform for this application." When Cassway met with the architects he told them he wanted "a boat that had a little bit of a Down East look and a second-floor pilothouse, so you can actually see," as opposed to the more limited view from a main deck pilothouse. |