Waiting for Washington
28 Oct

Waiting for Washington

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
This time last year, the drilling moratorium was giving shipbuilders headaches well beyond the Gulf. Those concerns are still around. Despite the announcement that more than 20 million deepwater acres in the western Gulf will be auctioned off to leasing in December, permits for deepwater drilling are not being issued fast enough to satisfy shipyards hungry for workboat orders. And…
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Christopher Wheatley
28 Oct

Christopher Wheatley

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
Ever vigilant, the 92-foot fireboat Victor L. Schlaeger and its full-time crew have served the city of Chicago well. Always ready at its berth between Navy Pier and the city's water filtration facility, Schlaeger, designed and built in 1949, has been the Chicago Fire Department's prime marine firefighting asset. But response technology has changed a little in the last 62…
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Carpe Diem
28 Oct

Carpe Diem

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
The notion that form must follow function is both a necessity and a challenge when it comes to mega-yachts. Today's yachts must not only be equipped with the latest in luxury amenities, meet the space and layout requirements of their demanding owners, boast impressive, fuel-efficient performance, and adhere to the stringent safety requirements of the classification societies; they must also…
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28 Oct

Grand Manan Adventure

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
When the province of New Brunswick started looking into a new ferry to serve Grand Manan, the largest island in the Bay of Fundy, its crews and engineers began discussing where they needed to make improvements to boost capacity over the existing boats. Pretty quickly they agreed on the answer: everywhere. The result is Grand Manan Adventure, a 281-foot car…
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28 Oct

AET Innovator

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
It's a safe bet that most Americans don't realize how much of the crude oil they import is lightered offshore from supertankers to smaller vessels that can meet the draft restrictions in ports such as Houston, Texas, or Morgan City, La. But every day, huge quantities of oil snakes its way through heavy-duty hoses as two tankers perform an intricate…
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Dwight S. Ramsay
28 Oct

Dwight S. Ramsay

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
When Aries Marine Corp. crews assembled around the beginning of this year for sea trials on two platform supply vessels, they expected a unique experience. As the trials concluded, they were convinced they were aboard the best boats they'd ever sailed. The stars of the show: two diesel-electric, integrated z-drive PSVs, Betty Pfankuch and Dwight S. Ramsay. The 292-footers from…
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28 Oct

Will Navy's future plans get 'pushed to the right'?

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
Courtesy Huntington Ingalls Industries USCGC Stratton, the third National Security Cutter, pulls away from the dock at Ingalls Shipuilding for acceptance trials. Within a month of taking office this summer as Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta was pleading with Congress not to slash the Pentagon budget, already on the hook for $350 billion in cuts over the next 10 years.…
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28 Oct

Habitability guidelines from ABS aim to improve living conditions for workboat crews

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
Brian Gauvin Greater Scott, a crew/supply vessel owned by Texas Crewboats, has comfortable nonwork spaces, including a mess area with flat-screen TV. Mariners are faced with the challenge of living where they work. As a result, they are subjected to a wide range of environmental factors such as extreme temperatures, lighting, vibration and noise. Together these factors have a profound…
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