C&C Marine to deliver new towboat to Tennessee

摘要

In mid-September, C&C Marine and Repair, Belle Chasse, La., is scheduled to deliver the Scarlett Rose Furlong, the first of three identical 6,000-hp, 170'×50'×11'6" towboats for Hines Furlong Line, Nashville, Tenn. CT Marine, Portland, Maine, designed the towboat, which will be working the Lower Mississippi River. All three towboats will be powered with triple Tier 3 2,000-hp Cummins QSK60-M diesels that originally were to be matched up with a 160' hull design, based on a 6,600-hp, triple-screw Z-drive towboat CT Marine designed for Marquette Transportation in 2018. But because Hines Furlong "wanted as much as they could get going north and inherently Z-drives cannot push north with the same output as a conventional nozzle boat," that plan was scrapped, said CT Marine's owner Christian Townsend.