534 January 2009
M/V Coho Delivered to Penn Maritime
The Coho’s tower provides a 51.5-foot elevated eye-level.
All photos by Alan Haig-Brown courtesy of Cummins Maritime.
The second in a series of 116x36-foot ATB vessels was delivered to Penn Maritime from Thoma-Sea Boatbuilders in early December of 2008. It came around to New Orleans to await completion and delivery of its barge. I was Bill Oppenheimer of Penn Maritime who arranged for me to take the attached photos at that time. For more specs on the JAK 400 coupling and the Nautican Nozzles please see the Cummins Hotip#400. You can also download the Entech & Assoc. Inc profile drawing at that location.
The Coho’s port-side 2000 hp Cummins QSK60 main engine.
Chief Engineer Cle Popperwill demonstrates the full set of emergency engine and steering controls to Capt. Mike O’Brian. A push-button telegraph system is supplemented by an intercom with headset.
The Reintjes gear with one of the 60-liter Cummins QSK60 mains
generating 2000 hp at 1800 RPM.
The Coho wheelhouse with the two sets of engine gauges and multiple sets of engine controls. An overhead displays the electronic charts and other data in a readily available manner.
A complete set of aft controls are provided in spite of the fact that the vessel will normally work in a pushing mode. Provisions of this sort are pleasing to the crew.
The Coho on the Mississippi.
The Coho on the Mississippi.
The Coho on the Mississippi.
The port side pin for the JAK 400 system.
Mate Christopher March on the bow of the Coho.
Emergency towing hawser and chain on the aft deck.
The Nautican Nozzle with one of the 104x112-inch skewed props being installed
on the Coho while under construction.
One of the JAK pins being installed in a Penn vessel underconstruction
at the Thoma-Sea Shipyard.
For more information:
Lawson Hitt
Project Manager
Thoma-Sea Boatbuilders, Inc.
222 Prospect St.
Houma, LA 70363
Phone: (504) 853-0620
E-mail: lawson@thoma-sea.com
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.
Entech & Associates 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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