Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS July 2018 Boat And Ship Yard News
Once the schooner fl eet were fi nished hauling out at Northend Shipyard in Rockland the schooner ISAAC H. EVANS was back on the railway to fi nish work on her bow and bulwarks.
Things are busy at Washburn &
Doughty in East Boothbay. They had a 93-foot x 38-foot 6,700 hp Z-drive tugboat ready to be delivered the end of May. She is EXPORTER, going to Gulf LNG
Services, which is the joint venture of a couple of tug companies. She will eventually end up down in Texas servicing an LNG facility, an export facility, hence the name the EXPORTER.
Then, they have two hybrid tugs for
Harbor Services in Louisiana. The propul- sion package provided by Caterpillar, which includes both main engines, gensets, and the Z-drives, because Caterpillar bought a Z-drive company. The idea behind a hybrid tug is that when the boat is transiting it can run on the gensets and not have the main engines running, When she is working she will have direct Z-drives to the main engine.
At Bass Harbor Boat the owner has a love for old motorcycles, this is a 1954 Panhead Harley Davidson. The stand she is on was built at the yard from a design used in World War II.
Matt Maddox said, “I think that we will
see more. It’s like a lot of things in the tug industry, they want to see somebody else be the Guinea pig before they adopt it into their fl eet. It makes economic sense. There are certain ways you can confi gure it so that you can run a fi fi , fi refi ghting, system off the engines without a lot of added cost, which is also benefi cial.” Behind these two hybrids they have the
Maine state ferry, the fi rst ferry in nearly 20 years. Matt added, “We were excited to get that. That boat right now is just in the design phase. John Gilbert did the overall design, and we will be doing a lot of detail designs, such as arrangements. That one will be de- livered in 13 or 14 months from now.” They have another two ferry projects
they are working on. One is the Shelter Is- land ferry, which they should have received the contract for. They also have signed a contract to build the Chebeague Transpor- tation Company’s new 54-foot ferry. For a number of years, Washburn &
Doughty has been building just tugboats, but that slowed a bit with the implementation of Tier 4. Matt explained, “We think a large part of that was the fact that a lot of companies tried to get ahead of Tier 4, so they built a lot of Tier 3 boat. Then they were reluctant to be the Guinea pigs on Tier 4. Hull #122 out on the water will be our second Tier 4 boat, and we are learning how to build them more effi ciently.” The Tier 4 tugs are a little more com- plexed. “It is the exhaust system and deal-
ing with what they call the SCR, which is basically scrubs the emissions,” said Matt. “Those were challenging and it takes a lot of room and they generate a lot of heat and there is a lot more piping involved with them. So it was a learning experience, but we have got it now.”
They have continued to talk with tug
companies about their next projects and Matt said there seems to be more interest. He added, “The other thing that happens, when oil prices start to creep up, there seems to be more interest in investing for off shore exploration which helps us. Oil companies are spending more, they are also keeping our competition in the south busier with off shore structures and they are not chasing tugboats. It has been challenging just in terms of ev- erybody has been very aggressive in pricing boats to keep the doors open.”
At Wesmac in Surry the bays and lay-
up shop is full of work, outside there is a boat looking for some work to be done, and then there was a new 54-foot sportfi sherman down on the dock they needed to make sure was ready to go as well as a local fi sherman’s boat out on the mooring needing work. In the yard they have a yacht, RELENT-
LESS. She is a Wesmac 42 that just came up from Florida to spend the summer in Northeast Harbor. She is getting cosmetic work, which will include lots of varnishing. She will then be back in the water 20 June. In Bay 1, they have a 46-foot sedan
cruiser powered with a 1,000-hp. Caterpil- lar. She will come out by the fi rst of June where they will do a dry start up. They then planned on launching her the middle of May. In Bay 2, is sitting a 1,400-hp V-12
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MAN, which will be going into the boat in Bay 3 which is a 46 Superwide sportfi sher- man for a customer from San Diego. They have been building the boat around the engine and now it is a matter of putting the pieces back in and making them permanent. They are looking at a late fall launch. The owner is then going to power her around to San Diego on her own bottom. Bay 5, they have the new DMR boat,
formerly Cappy Sargent's kit boat, to be fi nished off . The power plant is all set, drive train is all set, fuels tanks are under con- struction. They had to cut out a fair amount of what had been done as she is going to be used totally diff erent. They have got six months before that boat launches. Bay 6 there is a 50' kit boat, lobster
going to Milbridge. They have done the hull and the stringers are in. They will also put in the crash, main and lazerette bulkheads and then set in, they think, a 900 hp Scania. What was going on the lay-up shop
is a mould for a standard 46-footer. Bill Continued on Page 18.
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
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