There is another one being built in the Americas, so that should be enough Arks to satisfy the need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsk5S36AKfI
Maybe something to be used as Accommodation Vessel in the GoM? It come ready with Gorilla cage smell. (Spittle will be added on arrival)
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Maybe something to be used as Accommodation Vessel in the GoM? It come ready with Gorilla cage smell.[/QUOTE]
Could you head on over there and give us a first hand follow up story? Was everyone’s STCW and training up to date, were they trained on those fancy ark simulators, etc. The piece could be a sort of amateur PSC inspection with you as the inspector. Make sure you head over to the coast guard vessel too though. I wanna know what the lookout was thinking when he saw the ark bearing down on him. No atheists in the fox hole they say.
[QUOTE=KPChief;185825]Could you head on over there and give us a first hand follow up story? Was everyone’s STCW and training up to date, were they trained on those fancy ark simulators, etc. The piece could be a sort of amateur PSC inspection with you as the inspector. Make sure you head over to the coast guard vessel too though. I wanna know what the lookout was thinking when he saw the ark bearing down on him. No atheists in the fox hole they say.[/QUOTE]
Apparently the Coast Guard was involved in the towing operation that went wrong. They were shifting the Ark along the wharf, but in stead of moving the KV Nornen away they attempted to move the Ark by two small boats and lost control due to strong wind and large windage area.
The one that would be suitable as Accommodation barge in the GoM, although I think it may be hard to move it there.
As it is actually under building in Northern Kentucky, so much easier for you to take on the role as amateur PSC inspector: https://arkencounter.com/
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As it is actually under building in Northern Kentucky, so much easier for you to take on the role as amateur PSC inspector: https://arkencounter.com/[/QUOTE]
Well who knew the arc business was so big? When I get home I may head to DC and get me some title XI money to build one. Or maybe since the only American arc yards are in the middle of Kentucky maybe I’ll just pick up a foreign one with a hole in it and reflag it for the MSP program and get some operating cash.
Not arks, but kinda related. . . a couple of decades ago, I was up in western Maine, visiting one of the captains that I was sailing with. He had a beautiful house with barn nearby that he had built himself. A real handy man. . . In the barn was a 30’ Friendship Sloop hull that he purchased and was completing the construction. He had to get something from a friend of his down the road, and THIS guy, about two miles away, was also building a boat on HIS property. . . All I could think of was why these guys were building “ocean” boats in the Bethel, Maine area, some 60 miles inland and in the hills. . . . and were there others and what was the forecast. . . .
I thought all new build vessels in Norway were supposed to be state of the art DP5?
Maybe it was time for a sulot and they all left the bridge to go down to their fancy prayer room.
Or maybe they were all to busy reading the gcaptain forums. They were riveted by the postings of a great Norge patriot telling the dumb Americans they are doing it all wrong.
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;185841]I thought all new build vessels in Norway were supposed to be state of the art DP5?
Maybe it was time for a sulot and they all left the bridge to go down to their fancy prayer room.
Or maybe they were all too busy reading the gcaptain forums. They were riveted by the postings of a great Norge patriot telling the dumb Americans they are doing it all wrong.[/QUOTE]
Why stop there?? DP6 would probably be minimum requirement set by Noah and the Guy above. How else were they going to get it sitting right at the top of Mt. Ararat when the flood subsided?
You go for the best when it comes to saving mankind from distinction. (OK, Hollywood does it regularly without)
Nothing beats Norwegian quality when it comes to building things that float, so obviously they built the hull in Romania and took it to Norway for outfitting.
I believe the design was also Norwegian. Anybody here with contacts above to confirm that?
OK I admit, it is not possible to predict what the Coast Guard (or navy?)can manage to screw up. As majority Americans here you should have no problem relating to that.
OK, this one doesn’t have anything to do with the Ark and does not look much like the UT 704s at first sight, but she is in direct continuation of that design, based on what is the market requirements today, as the UT 704 was in the 1970s.
She didn’t get the best of starts of her career though. This January she broke loos from her moorings in a storm at the well protected building yard in Brattvaag and suffered quite a bit of damages in January this year. Yet she was delivered on time and on budget.
[QUOTE=ombugge;183685]Yes the Ebb Tide was the first, but does not have much resemblance to the modern day OSVs used world wide:
I actually worked with one of these early Tidewater boats in S.E.Asia in 1970, called the Missouri, but better known as the “Mighty Mou” (or however it should be spelled)
There were several with the straight bow and no flare. I remember the Rig Service and one that had been converted to Seismic, called the Rio das Contas. All built in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
Back in 1970 I served as Navigator on the next version, the earl Halter Marine boats from the mid 1960s, with 16- 1800 IHK:
Ahhh, the Rio das Contas. She spent the end of her life here in Indonesia. A Swiss guy called George Kollar may have been the last owner. Her possible last charter was a supply boat assignment to a fly-by-night outfit supposedly refurbishing the old Conoco Udang plaftorm in the South China Sea around 2003. She had an Indonesian name by that time, the Pantai Mas (which means the “Golden Coast”). To me, she looked like the forerunner of the modern offshore supply boat. The design was known as a Mississippi Mud Boat, because they could happily sit on a mud bottom without damaging props or rudders. She was fitted with 2 x 2 sets of Grey Marine 6-110 main engines (which GM stopped making in 1965). The engine/gearboxes were controlled by Wabco air controls, with air lines that were too small diameter, resulting in far too slow engine/gearbox/throttle response times, to be practical as a platform supply boat.
That sure looks like the Rio das Contas in the above photo. Here is another pic, when she was fitted out to do shallow water seismic work:
[QUOTE=Evanjonesinbatam;189875]Ahhh, the Rio das Contas. She spent the end of her life here in Indonesia. A Swiss guy called George Kollar may have been the last owner. Her possible last charter was a supply boat assignment to a fly-by-night outfit supposedly refurbishing the old Conoco Udang plaftorm in the South China Sea around 2003. She had an Indonesian name by that time, the Pantai Mas (which means the “Golden Coast”). To me, she looked like the forerunner of the modern offshore supply boat. The design was known as a Mississippi Mud Boat, because they could happily sit on a mud bottom without damaging props or rudders. She was fitted with 2 x 2 sets of Grey Marine 6-110 main engines (which GM stopped making in 1965). The engine/gearboxes were controlled by Wabco air controls, with air lines that were too small diameter, resulting in far too slow engine/gearbox/throttle response times, to be practical as a platform supply boat.
That sure looks like the Rio das Contas in the above photo. Here is another pic, when she was fitted out to do shallow water seismic work: [/QUOTE]
Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to hear more from you from Batam in the future.
A friend of mine was Captain on the Rio das Contas back in mid-1970s when she was doing seismic work, but I haven’t seen that one since sometime in the 1980s. Surprised she survived until 2003. (or beyond?)
Oh dear! I should have known that the well travelled Ombugge would immediately figure out who is Evanjonesinbatam. Lucys Oarhouse Tavern has been out of my hands since 2011. These days, I am merely the owner of the building. Your photo essays of maritime activities around the Straits of Singapore are sorely missed. I especially appreciated your pictorial account of taking the Antartica on her final voyage as a VLCC tanker down the Straits of Johore to Sembawang Shipyard.
[QUOTE=Evanjonesinbatam;189875]Ahhh, the Rio das Contas. She spent the end of her life here in Indonesia. A Swiss guy called George Kollar may have been the last owner. Her possible last charter was a supply boat assignment to a fly-by-night outfit supposedly refurbishing the old Conoco Udang plaftorm in the South China Sea around 2003. She had an Indonesian name by that time, the Pantai Mas (which means the “Golden Coast”). To me, she looked like the forerunner of the modern offshore supply boat. The design was known as a Mississippi Mud Boat, because they could happily sit on a mud bottom without damaging props or rudders. She was fitted with 2 x 2 sets of Grey Marine 6-110 main engines (which GM stopped making in 1965). The engine/gearboxes were controlled by Wabco air controls, with air lines that were too small diameter, resulting in far too slow engine/gearbox/throttle response times, to be practical as a platform supply boat.
That sure looks like the Rio das Contas in the above photo. Here is another pic, when she was fitted out to do shallow water seismic work:
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Oh, and here I thought that they were called “Mud Boats” because they hauled drilling mud. . . .
This should bring you to a pdf version which is not easy to use for research.
I’ll look to see if there is an interactive version to be had without costing an arm an a leg.
