496 May 2008
Update Penn Maritime ATBs
The M/V Skipjack at the Thoma-Sea fitting out dock in Lockport Louisiana.
Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.
With delays in getting parts for the assembly there was a hold up in the delivery of the first of Penn Maritime’s new tugs from Thoma-Sea Boatbuilders. Now the first of five, M/V Skipjack, is nearing completion and will deliver in May. In a near assembly-line production process the second vessel, M/V Coho, will launch sometime in May and deliver in August. The other tugs are already taking shape and will follow on a regular schedule.
The JAK coupler is fitted to the hull of the third Penn boat at Thoma-Sea Boatbuilders.
Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.
Following its delivery the Skipjack will travel to New Orleans to meet up with a 90,000-barrel barge that will come down from its builders at Corn Island Shipyard on the Ohio River in Indiana.
Cummins QSK60 engines turning 104 by 112-inch skewed props in Nautican Nozzles with shutter rudders power the 4000 hp Penn tugs. The coupling system is a JAK-400. For more specifications and a general arrangement drawing of the Entec & Associates designed boat please see Cummins Hotips#400.
The Nautican Nozzles and props are being fitted to the second hull M/V Coho.
Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.
The M/V Skipjack at the Thoma-Sea fitting out dock in Lockport Louisiana.
Photo by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Marine.
For more information:
Lawson Hitt
Project Manager
Thoma-Sea Boatbuilders, Inc.
222 Prospect St.
Houma, LA 70363
Phone: (504) 853-0620
Bill Oppenheimer
Manager Engineering and Construction
Penn Maritime Inc.
1435 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10310
Phone: 718 442 0700
E-mail: wloppenheimer@pennmartime.com
Frank Basile, P.E.
Entec & Assoc. Inc.
Houma Louisiana 10361
Phone: 985 868 5524
E-mail: frankb@entech-associates.com
Joe Gregory
Territory Sales Manager
Cummins Mid-South
110 E. Airline Highway
Kenner, LA 70062
Phone: 504 465 3404
Mobile: 985 397 2252
E-mail: joe.Gregory@cummins.com
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