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CFOA NEWS

Vol 1 - Issue 2

June 20, 2011

What’s Inside:

Conference update 1

Capilano Designed Vessel for Alaska 2

CFOA Board of Directors 2

Retrofit of Sem-Safe System 3

New ferries for Newfoundland service 3

Did you Know? 4

From the Shoe box 4

Canadian Ferry Operators Association

Association Canadienne des Opérateur de Traversiers

Calendar:

CFOA Conference

Sept. 12 & 13, 2011

Owen Sound, ON

Interferry 36th Annual Conference

Oct. 3-6, 2011

Barcelona, Spain

National CMAC

Nov. 7-10, 2011

Government Conference Centre,

Ottawa

New Members:Allswater Marine

Andover Management Inc.

CAI Goup

Inland Lifrafts & Marine Ltd.

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New Canadian designed Ferry for State of Alaska

Submitted by Capilano Maritime Design Ltd.

At a ceremony on April 2nd, 2011, Alaska Ship & Drydock Inc.

delivered a new double-ended ro-ro passenger ferry to the

State of Alaska. The new vessel, christened the M/V Ken

Eichner-2, was designed and engineered by Capilano Maritime

Design Ltd. of North Vancouver.

The vessel; will serve as a link between the Greater Ketchikan

International Airport and the city of Ketchikan alongside the

M/V Oral Freeman. The ferry accommodates 149 persons, and

either 23 cars, or two large semi-trailers and eight cars.

The M/V Ken Eichner-2 provides a significant increase in

deadweight capacity over her sister, in addition to a 5%

displacement allowance for future growth in light ship. The

off-centreline starboard side deckhouse allows for easier

loading and unloading of large trucks and is countered by a

15long ton of fresh water ballast.

The vessel incorporates a number of special featured in order

to meet the Owner’s manning requirement of just two crew

members.

The ferry was designed and built under the USCG (Subchapter

T-Small Passenger Vessels) and ABS (AMS, Ai+, under 90 m

Rules, Ro-Ro Passenger Vehicle.

The principal particulars of the new vessel are as follows:

Length Overall: 116 ft. – 6 in

Beam (Breadth): 48 ft – 0 in

Depth (Moulded): 12 ft – 0 in

Design Draft: 9 ft – 0 in

Design Displacement 422.7 long tons

Lightship Weight: 272.1 long tons

Fuel: 8,600 US Gallons

Propulsion: Conventional, one propeller

turning at each end

Main Engines: Two 850 HP Cummins KTA

38 MO Tier engines

Generators: Two 55 kW Northern Lights

M55 C2 Tier II

Design Speed: 10 knots

Service Speed: 8 knots

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Two new ferries added to the Newfoundland

and Labrador Fleet

Submitted by Walter Pumphrey

The first phase of a Vessel Replacement Strategy for the

Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is the

construction of two Ro-Ro ferries at Kiewit Offshore

Services, Marystown NL, a division of Peter Kiewit Sons’

Company. Each ferry is forty-two (42) meters in length

and will carry eighty (80) passengers and sixteen (16)

cars, or one (1) transport truck and eleven (11) cars.

The preliminary design was completed by Poseidon

Marine Consultants Limited, St. John’s and was tested

in ice and open water by Oceanic Consulting

Corporation at the Institute of Ocean Technology. The

project is valued at $55 million. The vessels were

christened the M/V Grace Sparkes and the M/V Hazel

McIsaac on March 11, 2011. The two vessels are

undergoing final inspections, finishing, sea trials and

crew familiarization and expected to go into service in

April and May 2011. The M/V Grace Sparkes is

scheduled for the St. Brendan’s service replacing the

M/V Hamilton Sound and the M/V Hazel McIsaac is

scheduled for the Little Bay Islands service replacing the

M/V Island Joiner, both of the vessels being replaced

will be decommissioned.

NATIONAL AND MARINE FIRE SERVICES INC.

recently installed a SEMCO Sem-Safe High-Pressure

Water Mist system and Vehicle Deck Drencher system

aboard the M.S. Chi-Cheemaun.

Submitted by Richard Muller Vice President National

and Marine Fire Service Inc.

This is the first Water Mist System installed in Canada

aboard a Canadian flagged vessel by a Canadian

company. Water has traditionally been used to

extinguish fires by “cooling the flames”. Water applied

to fire increases the temperature of the water and energy

is absorbed by the water resulting in a cooling effect.

Water Mist Systems use this same principle but, by

forcing water at high pressure through micro nozzles and

converting the water into tiny droplets, the cooling effect

is up to seven times higher compared to traditional

sprinkler systems. This reduces the water consumption

by up to 90% in comparison to traditional sprinkler

systems. The water mist system aboard the M.S. Chi-

Cheemaun is designed to protect both accommodation

spaces and specific engine room components. The

system design will automatically activate if a fire is

detected at any of the four main engines, three

generators, two boilers and/or the accommodation

passageways. Only the affected section will be

enveloped in a cloud of water mist for as long as

necessary to extinguish the fire.

The vehicle deck is divided into four drencher zones

which can be manually activated from a central location.

The new piping, drencher pump and nozzles will provide

a fine spray to the activated zone until the system is

reset.

Both systems were designed, approved and fully tested

to current Lloyds Register Regulations.

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CFOA News Letter 4

CFOA Facts and Figures 2010:

No. of ships: 138

No. of Passengers : 48 million

No. of Vehicles: 18 million

No. of Employees: 7000

From the Shoe Box

MV Abegweit: Built at Marine Industries Sorel and christened in 1947 for the Borden

PEI to Cape Tormentine NB Service.

It is now the Club house or floating base of the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago USA

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