Coastal Marine Equipment to furnish deck machinery for three OPA 90 barges
  by: OilOnline
  Thursday, December 09, 2004

Stennis Space Center, MS ... Coastal Marine Equipment, Inc. will furnish the deck machinery for an additional three (3) OPA 90 barges being built for Hornbeck Offshore (Covington, LA) by Leevac Shipyards Inc. (Jennings, LA) and Bay Shipbuilding (Sturgeon Bay, WI). Each barge will be fitted with a 1-3/4" or 1-7/8" wire rope anchor winch, four (4) 1-1/4" wire rope mooring winches and two (2) 24" mooring capstans, all electrically driven and controlled by variable frequency drives for multiple speed operation. These three (3) barges are in addition to the two (2) currently under construction at Leevac and Bay Ship, outfitted with the same Coastal Marine winches and capstans.