Chouest is going to build one in the US. Im assuming it will be built in Tampa?
Tampa probably but who knows.
The capabilities sound great, looks like it will be an awesome boat to work on, but I don’t know about the look of it. Maybe it’s the color, or maybe it’s just the boat. Guess they don’t want to be left out in the sub-sea market!
[QUOTE=“ElCapitan;125042”]Tampa probably but who knows.[/QUOTE]
I heard that ECO is going to build her in the Houma, LA yard.
After seeing photos of ECO’s existing vessels, I’m a bit concerned about the shipyard’s ability to produce the curving X-bow…
It will be built at LaShip in Houma according to Island Offshore.
http://gcaptain.com/edison-chouest-offshore-to-build-first-x-bow-in-u-s/
[QUOTE=Mikey;125069]It will be built at LaShip in Houma according to Island Offshore.[/QUOTE]
HURRAY FOR ECO! but how in the hell can they get such a huge hull out of the Houma Nav Canal without dredging the beejeezus out of it?
Just like they did the AIVIQ. A dry dock on one end and a big deck barge on the other lifting it partially out of the water. Tugs do the rest.
And we all saw how well that worked. They messed up the aviq and ended up towing it to Tampa to be fixed/finished. We will se how this one turns out as they will be comparable in draft.
Finally somebody with the balls to build one, Gary does it again.
[QUOTE=coldduck;125100]Finally somebody with the balls to build one, Gary does it again.[/QUOTE]
Still don’t see any point for an X-bow in the GoM but what the hell. Gary likes to pretend to look like a Norske even though he is a rather rotund Cajun!
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[QUOTE=justaboatdriver;125076]Just like they did the AIVIQ. A dry dock on one end and a big deck barge on the other lifting it partially out of the water. Tugs do the rest.[/QUOTE]
So why don’t they just dredge out the Nav Canal anyway? Not like it doesn’t get the use.
Fill it with helium!
[QUOTE=BowchickaBowditch;125108]Fill it with helium![/QUOTE]
I am simply in awe of such a mind…
you sir are a bona fide Wile E. Coyote genius!
you should apply for a grant or something.
Yea I don’t understand someone needing “balls” to build an X-bow. They’re not needed in the GoM, they may be ok in the North Atlantic, but no one is working there.
As for dredging Houma Nav and Terrabonne Bay, keep it shallow! I hate going up there and don’t want to go up there any more!
Do you think this boat is only going to work in the gulf?
No but it still doesn’t take balls. Balls would be designing your own boat, not building someone else’s design.
[QUOTE=KrustySalt;125118]Balls would be designing your own boat, not building someone else’s design.[/QUOTE]
Isn’t that what they did with Aiviq?
Personally, I see no reason to re-invent the wheel. If you can save time and money by using someone’s proven design, then go for it.
I never said that was a problem. I don’t see where it takes balls to build an X-bow. That’s the only thing I said, but good on Gary for building it, he should have no problems with getting a contract.
[QUOTE=KrustySalt;125114]Yea I don’t understand someone needing “balls” to build an X-bow. They’re not needed in the GoM, they may be ok in the North Atlantic, but no one is working there.
As for dredging Houma Nav and Terrabonne Bay, keep it shallow! I hate going up there and don’t want to go up there any more![/QUOTE]
Upon being elected one of the first things Gov. Bobby Jindal and the generous taxpayers of Louisiana did was give $10+ million dollars to expand the privately owned financially strapped LAship you would have thought they would have thrown in enough to dredge the channel to get the vessels out which would have helped everybody. There are actually people outside Louisiana who are wondering what the heck they were thinking when they decided to pay for a shipyard in an area better suited for building pontoon boats. However, it makes perfect sense if you understand Louisiana.
[QUOTE=tengineer1;125129]Upon being elected one of the first things Gov. Bobby Jindal and the generous taxpayers of Louisiana did was give $10+ million dollars to expand the privately owned financially strapped LAship you would have thought they would have thrown in enough to dredge the channel to get the vessels out which would have helped everybody. There are actually people outside Louisiana who are wondering what the heck they were thinking when they decided to pay for a shipyard in an area better suited for building pontoon boats. However, it makes perfect sense if you understand Louisiana.[/QUOTE]
Part of that was giving the land that LAShip was built on to the state, then lease is back from the State of Louisiana. At the end of the day, it will be a positive cash flow investment for the tax payers, with the tax payers owning the assets tied to the investment. Not much risk in that equation for ECO if the bottom falls out.