Tests and sea trials have been completed for the two new catamaran ferry vessels built by All American Marine of Bellingham, WA and designed by Teknicraft of Auckland, NZ. The new passenger ferry service will begin operations this Friday in Pensacola Bay between the City of Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, and Fort Pickens in Gulf Islands…
JMS Naval Architects is designing a 60-foot river dinner cruise boat for tours and dining on the Charles River in Waltham, MA. JMS is designing the boat for Michael Colomba, the founder or Brelundi Restaurants, and his soon-to-be-built hotel, also on the Charles River. The boat is intended to expand on his company’s amenities by…
Under contract to Durr-Megrant JV, JMS Naval Architects conducted an engineering review of the sea-fastening structural calculations use in the transport of a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) module on board a 400 foot heavy lift barge from Coeymans, NY to Sewaren, NJ down the Hudson River. The 125-foot tall, 3,800 long ton Heat Recovery Steam Generator…
Harley Marine acquired four tugboats for their New York and Olympic Tug & Barge operations and wanted to increase the visibility of three of them when operating in harbors by adding upper pilothouses. Harley asked JMS Naval Architects to provide their naval architecture and engineering support services to examine the stability of the three tugboats with upper…
Weeks Marine had contracted the construction of 8 new sand scow barges to be built at a Gulf of Mexico shipyard and was exploring the most economical ways to transport them to Weeks Marine’s New Jersey facilities. Each of the scows measure 150’x40’x12’. In engineering consultation with JMS Naval Architects, Weeks decided to use an…
JMS Naval Architects completed the conversion design of a 260-foot manned tank barge into a deck cargo barge for Coeymans Marine Towing of the Port of Coeymans Marine Terminal on the Hudson River in Coeymans, New York. The tank barge was formally known as the MSRC 350 and has been renamed the CMT Y NOT…
JMS Naval Architects has completed the design of a 250’ by 64’ by 16’ gantry crane barge for Weeks Marine of Cranford, NJ. JMS provided complete engineering and design services for the concept through detail design of the new crane barge to support a Clyde Model 28 gantry crane. JMS provided engineering calculations and design…
JMS Naval Architects has completed the design of a 128.0 m (420 ft) by 37.5 m (123 ft) modular floating dry dock for Ocean New Brunswick. The dry dock is designed to be built in three phases. One 60.8 m long section is already under construction, and two additional 36.8 m long end sections will…
Virginia Institute of Marine Science of Gloucester Point, VA (www.VIMS.edu) awarded a contract to Meridien Maritime Reparation of Matane, Quebec (www.Meridien.cc) to construct a 93-foot research vessel. JMS Naval Architects of Mystic, CT (JMSnet.com) designed the research vessel to replace VIMS’s current vessel, the R/V Bay Eagle. The primary mission of the Institute’s fleet is to…
JMS Naval Architects is providing engineering support to Mystic Seaport of Mystic, CT and Plimoth Plantation of Plymouth, MA. The 30-month restoration effort is taking place at the Mystic Seaport’s H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The organizations, with the help of JMS serving as naval architecture consultant on the project, are working toward restoring the historic vessel’s…
