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History/Background
This boat is a custom built 30 m catamaran from the Mariart Shipyard, Thailand. The steel hulled boat has been purpose built for the carriage of day trip passenger excursions.
Mariart Shipyard have an excellent track record and are well known in Thailand as builders of good quality wood, GRP and steel boats. They are located at 119/1, Moo10, Sukhumvit Road Klongdan, Samut Prakarn Province.
The yard was established in 1979 by Khun Sujin Jindasakchai who is the founder and president of the Su- Thorn Group of companies. The company originally specialised in the construction of high quality wooden boats and gradually moved on to GRP and larger steel boats. Over the years they a have built over 300 boats for local clients and about 50 for overseas customers including Europe, Japan, Korea, Hawaii etc.
General
The boat comprises of four decks, the roof sun deck, the first upper deck with an enclosed helm position at the fore part and passenger entertainment area aft, the main deck passenger seating and dining area and the the lower decks with galley, engine rooms, toilet facilities and store rooms.
There is ample space for passenger use on the upper deck, first deck entertainment area, and second deck dining area.
There are large swim decks/ boarding areas at the after part of both the port and starboard hulls.
Each hull comprises of 5 watertight compartments, meeting the highest safety standards.
Accommodation
The Roof Deck which is the passenger sundeck is spacious and is protected by a white bimini awning. There is a solid bulwark at the fore part and open railings on either side and at the after end of the deck. There is bench seating at the fore and after parts, these are also lockers containing life jackets.
The enclosed helm position is at the forepart of the Upper Deck and the area aft is dedicated to passenger entertainment. There are two rows of bench seating on either side and further similar seating athwartships, aft of the entertainment stage. There is a raised walkway along the centreline and a stage at the forepart for entertainment purposes, aft of the helm housing.
Interior Features and Equipment
The Main deck is fully fitted out with sets of moulded plastic dinning tables and chairs and each table is provided with an electric BBQ grill. The passenger decks are coated with a grey nonskid compound. The side walls are painted white, whereas the deck heads and beams are all exposed and not be paneled over. Longitudinal and transverse beams and brackets are all painted black and the welded seams and general workmanship appeared to be in good order and condition. There are stairways on either side which lead down into the two hulls. In the starboard hull there is a well equipped gas fired galley and at the after part the starboard engine room. The port hull contains the toilets and showers, there is a store room at the forepart and the engine room and equipment at the after part. Both areas are spacious and bright with white paintwork and grey decks. Once again the build quality is good with all beams stringers and brackets properly welded in place. Electric lighting and most ancillary equipment cables are enclosed in plastic conduits.
Engines & Tankage
Motive power is provided by 2 x Cummins 500hp 6 cylinder diesel engines, ID Nos. Port 41230047 Stbd 41230048. Gearboxes are Chinese FD 300 units ratio 3:1. There are 2 x Cummins 45 kva generators fitted and also one fire pump. Tanks Fuel tanks stainless steel 2 x 5000 litres Service tanks 2 x 500 litres
Electronics & Navigation Equipment
The helm position is situated in an off limits fully enclosed pilot house, sited amidships at the fore part of the entertainment deck and has a good view forward and to either side. The side deck wings are wide, and to aid berthing, engine controls have been installed on either side in order the aid the captain during ship handling and berthing. The helm console is provided with navigation and radio aids and a full set of engine monitoring dials and gauges. The medical chests are kept here and there is a recovery bed at the after part of the air conditioned pilot house. The following navigation, radio aids, have been fitted:- Raymarine Hybridtouch - Multipurpose plotter/ depth/ speed Raymarine - VHF VHF mobile - VHF handheld x 10 sets
Exterior Features & Safety Equipment
Life rafts - 5 x 65 person Life buoys - 8 – three with 20m lines Lifejackets - 320 – includes children size Fire Extinguishers - 16 Dry Powder Emergency fire pump Fires hoses and hydrant - 1 x set - 1 set in each main deck alleyway In addition there are smoke detectors in the Galley and both Engine Rooms, 6 x 24 v auto float type bilge pumps. There is also a gas detector in the galley and a state of the art automatic emergency gas shut down system. There are two 45 kg gas bottles serving the galley and they are stored in a ventilated locker in the starboard main deck alleyway. There are two separate electric anchor winches at the fore deck and these each handle a 150 kg galvanised anchor attached to 45 metres of galvanised mild steel chain.
Features
- Hot water
- Electric head
- Generator - 2 x Cummins Generator 30KVA
- Gps
- Deep freezer
- Refrigerator
- Radio
- Depthsounder
- Liferaft
- Sea water pump
- Vhf
- Log speedometer
- Electric bilge pump
- Dishwasher
- Battery charger
- Plotter
- Compass
- Autopilot
- Air conditioning
- Bow thruster
- Tender
- Radar
- Navigation center