BOATBUILDING BITTS

vessels. The Shelley Lab and Gibson Lab will fully support deepwater activities in the Gulf of Mexico and are SOLAS certifi ed. One of the vessels completed routine shipyard inspections and maintenance prior to becoming available for off shore support work in January. In addition to the acquisition, Laborde Marine recently took over management of the 190' deepwater DP-2 crewboat Northstar Independence and the 210' DP-1 OSV Capt. Woodrow. Laborde Marine now has 34 vessels either owned or under management.

The San Francisco Bar Pilots have awarded a contract to naval architecture and marine engineering fi rm Glosten to design three new station boats that will meet California Air Resources Board (CARB) emission requirements. CARB has established regulations to limit emissions below what is required by EPA for Tier 4 and must be met for any vessel considered a harbor craft by CARB operating in harbor and coastal California waters. Seattle-based Glosten worked with the San Francisco Bar Pilots in 2007. Glosten’s support of the new station boats includes a propulsion feasibility study and a contract design package. The bar pilots are slated to be the fi rst pilot association in California to build NEW vessels that will meet CARB’s Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations. The fi rst two station boats are expected to be in service by late 2024, with the third in service by late 2025.