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Kvaerner Masa-Yards operates two shipyards in Finland and is experienced in designing and building special tankers, gas carriers, FPSOs, FSOs, ice-going vessels and other ships for the offshore oil and [...]

The sea is filled with perils for both floating and fixed equipment. Add heavy weather to the mix and all operations become harder. Navigation must be done by instrument because [...]

The World's Biggest, Bloomin' Sailing Ship Five tall, bare, pole masts rose above everything else in the far distance. Once we were beyond the breakwater, the full length of a […]

The Alaska Railroad gets faster, more efficient service with new barges. Alaska Railbelt Marine, a Lynden Inc. subsidiary, made a big splash two years ago when it landed a 10-year […]

On 21 April, the Navy's newest Aegis guided-missile destroyer was commissioned Lassen (DDG 82). The ship's namesake, Clyde Everett Lassen, piloted his UH-2 Seasprite through heavy enemy fire to rescue [...]

The Spanish government has offered to assist the US in setting up a missile-defense system by deploying specially modified frigates to provide early warning for a naval 'missile shield.' According [...]

The East Coast Commercial Fishermen's and Aquaculture Trade Exposition in Ocean City, Md., always has a number of boatbuilders as exhibitors, and usually they bring some of their boats with [...]

When Mark Severson took his Odin, a 59-foot steel limit seiner, back into the water at Hansen Boat Co. in Marysville, Wash., she had been repowered with an additional 160 [...]

The Model 276C submersible transmitter is said to be ideal for dependable level measurement and control in such applications as deep water wells, chemical tanks, process vessels, and environmental remediation. [...]

The Navy's newest aircraft carrier, Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), was christened by former First Lady Nancy Reagan in a ceremony at Newport News Shipbuilding, Va., on 4 March. The Boeing [...]

For almost 100 years, the Rapp Group has developed successive new generations of advanced industrial products for demanding marine applications. Current main product areas are advanced hydraulic deck machinery, integrated [...]

* NEW MARKET: Johannes Helsen steers Hunter Marine to sales of luxury boats ST. PETERSBURG -- The former chief executive officer of a high-tech communications company in New Jersey likes [...]

MSS Marine Safety Systems has developed a new patented design system for recovering and launching rescue boats from offshore platforms, mobile rigs, or large ships. The most dangerous part of [...]

If you pay attention to the fundamentals -- planning and installation -- your electrical system will deliver. Have you ever taken a good look at your electrical system? Does it [...]

The Am-2000 Universal Water Management Boats are designed to perform a multitude of lake and canal restoration tasks. Their forward-mounted hydraulic crane can deploy a variety of tools and attachments, [...]

Aluminum cover comes in several sizes and may be used throughout a vessel. Hatches that pit easily and are awkward to handle because of their weight are a pain to [...]

Work Boat reports on scores of new and converted vessels during the course of the year. That makes choosing the ones that appear in this retrospective of significant boats an [...]

Agile anchor-handlers are built to last a long, long time. With 60 years of Gulf offshore tug experience, Otto Candies Inc. knows what the oil patch needs when it comes [...]

At 420'x100'X24', the Anchorage Provider is the largest barge built by Gunderson Marine since the Portland, Ore., shipyard was purchased by The Greenbrier Companies in 1985. Company spokesman Bruce Harmon [...]

On the Hoquiam River in Hoquiam, Wash., work on commercial fishing boats has picked up along the docks and three railways of The Shipyard. According to The Shipyard's owner, Don [...]

Supermarkets, convenience stores and gas stations offer lottery tickets that let you, against overwhelming odds, plunk your money down and hope for the best, For the past two years, Maine's [...]

Arnold DeMello was nervous when NMFS announced in the late 1980s that it would cease issuing scallop permits to boats built after 1989. But the Kathy Marie got in. The [...]

New Columbia River pilot boat meets needs for speed and safety. One of the most treacherous crossings anywhere in the world, the Columbia River bar is rightfully known as the [...]

Yard completes dive vessel conversion for Aquatica Morgan City, La.-based South Louisiana Fabrication recently completed modifications on a four-point, surface-diving support vessel. The Mr. Fred was delivered to Aquatica, a [...]

Hike Metal Products Ltd., Ontario, Canada, recently received a contract to build a new pilot boat for the Atlantic Pilotage Authority. To be based in Newfoundland's Placentia Bay district, the [...]

Bollinger Marine Fabricators in Amelia, La., is constructing a new 145'6'x38'x11' offshore supply boat for Lytal Ocean Ltd., Lockport, La. The vessel will be christened the Lytal Ashley when finished [...]

With conversions, S7000 vessel can lay 168-ft quad joints in water depths greater than 6,600 ft Industry's largest J-lay tower has been added to Saipem 7000 (S7000), enabling the semisubmersible [...]

The IMAC group consists of several Swedish and Norwegian companies with a world-wide clientele covering all types of marine vessels. IMAC's wide product range includes walls, doors, windows, wet rooms, [...]

Celebrity Cruises and France's Chantiers de L'Atlantique shipyard are delaying the delivery of the 1,950-passenger Infinity by four weeks in order to modify the ship's stern hull. The vessel's maiden […]

WEST Despite the fact that most other Puget Sound builders have had to find other markets for their boats, All-American Marine in Bellingham, Wash., keeps getting orders for new gillnetters. [...]

In the deep south, boatbuilders just keep churning out new vessels, while keeping the existing ones maintained. For example, Master Marine of Bayou La Batre, Ala., recently delivered a 95' [...]

NORTH This spring, it blew 80 mph onto Maine's Down East shoreline. In Milbridge, the gusts were particularly fierce and when the storm was over, the 31-foot lobster boat Madam [...]

Builders of fiberglass and metal boats tout a couple of instruments that make their work easier. Until not so long ago, the mention of boatbuilding tools brought to mind the [...]

Two New England scallopers became a working couple to go midwater trawling When the sister ships Gatherer and Mohawk were tied up at Rusty Bosarge's Boconco Shipbuilding in Bayou La [...]

Shrimp/croaker trawler Owner Ernie Buttler says his new and unusual trawler, an aluminum catamaran hull launched by Geo Shipyard in New Iberia, La., this spring, is stable and fast -- [...]

Catamaran can move 30,000 ton structures Heavyweight platforms for major projects in the southern Atlantic could soon be shipped across from distant yards via semisubmersible heavy-lift vessels currently under construction [...]

'We almost starved to death this winter,' says Mike Lee, contracts manager at Fred Wahl Marine Construction in Reedsport, Ore., 'but now we're bidding boats like you wouldn't believe, plus [...]

Arvin Young, one of the owners of the boatbuilding company Young Bros. in Corea, Maine, launched himself a new 45-footer in mid-June. The Laverna Gail -- all of Young's boats [...]

On the West Coast, you can still buy an honest-to-god Pacific City wooden dory from Annie and Terry Learned. There was a time when Annie Learned's grandfather, the late Victor [...]

A variety of ways to reduce vessel motion, from flopper stoppers to hydraulically operated flaps, are available to fishermen. If you haven't seen the movie 'The Perfect Storm,' suffice it [...]

'The 32-foot vessel length has been a real hindrance.' -- John R. Webb, Astoria, Ore. Gillnet boat lengths slipping beyond 32-foot limit Fishery police warn salmon fleet, say 18-inch trim [...]

Salmon and albacore troller Rick Oltman had always had this eye on the Cape Cleare; and when it came up for sale in 1990, he couldn't rest until he'd closed [...]

TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD OF CANADA In the early hours of Dec. 2, 1997, while bringing aboard a set of herring, the 61-foot Pacific Charmer heeled to starboard, downflooded and sank [...]

The U.S. marine community is closely watching the performance of the P/V Thresher, a 55 ft. patrol boat for the California Department of Fish & Game operating between the Mexican [...]

Renaissance's newest ship, the 698-passenger R7, will be delivered from French builder Chantiers de l'Atlantique on Sept. 27, one month ahead of the contract date, said Frank Brand, Renaissance's director […]

Shrimp boats, shrimp boats and more shrimp boats; that's the message coming from Ocean Marine of Bayou La Batre, La. The yard has nine steel boats under way and three [...]

The 36-foot Turbo Duck is bucking a tradition that's been a hard one to get by. The Turbo Duck, a lobster boat built for Eben Elliot of Wallace, Nova Scotia, [...]

The best hydraulic drive system is one that dovetails with a boat's equipment and runs quietly with minimal maintenance. Think of all the ways hydraulics are used on a fishing [...]

To really spend it, why not sink $5.7 million in a custom-designed yacht? The company, which has Fort Lauderdale offices; boasts 'short' delivery time of one year. Special considerations to [...]