Hello Paul Madden at THE YACHT CHANNEL here . This video is a reissue of a technical tour of the 172
foot x NOAA research ship Ocean Star and it is conducted by Dan Stabbert who is the owner
of the shipyard and the operator of the ship and he's extremely knowledgeable as you'll see
in the video tour here the technical tour and the reason that we're reissuing it is that this vessel
is now going to be auctioned off, so check back and there will be a video podcast on the auction
leading up to it with more information and then we're going to carry and broadcast the auction
live on October 1st with cameras on board the boat so bidders can talk to the captain or the owner
who's on board the boat and they'll have cameras and go around and explore the boat
and there's just a ton of other information that we'll be making available
so it's an exciting new initiative and here is the technical tour.
NOAA the national oceanic and atmospheric administration is the u.s government's oldest
scientific agency NOAA's work reaches from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the sun At 172
foot in length she's a fine fine research ship she is on a contract to the US government right now,
performing fisheries and ecological studies on the west coast of the United States. She's getting
ready to depart for a one-month voyage out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to study the debris
a donut hole plastic issue that's resulting as a lot of the of the debris from around the Pacific
Ocean is accumulating into one area they feel it can be an ecological disaster. So she's going to
go out and study that which is going to be there'll be about 25 to 30 people on board
for the next month. She has a 9 000 mile range and so that won't be an issue but she'll be away from
port services for well over a month close to 35 days with 30 people in the middle of the
pacific. So you need to take all your parts and spares with you. It's a very reliable ship she's
CPP propulsion and variable pitch She can just cruise along at a half a knot or you can do
a solid 10 knots Very fuel efficient she burns less than 800 gallons per day
which is, for 172 foot ship of this size and worldwide capabilities, is very efficient
very quiet, very smooth running ship and beautiful lines. One of the prettiest research ships in the
world today Very expensive to rebuild. To create a new asset like this with a lot of fair and
camber to the decks and and fairing to the hull and the bow and the stern lines. It's a pretty
large back deck area which can be used for science work. It can be used for submarines ROVs and if
you decided that you want a little bit less you could it would be a great area for large lounges
and so forth. It smells fresh it smells like it's getting ready to go to sea. It's getting paint
and you know the store is coming aboard and people are preparing her you can tell and we carry marine
mammal observers where always are you know for some of our projects and they use this area and
then on top of the pilot house for whale watching and protected species and making sure that we're
we're integrating that data along with our fisheries and our ecological studies.
Beautiful lines I mean gorgeous lines whether it's a research ship or a yacht or
a combination vessel. You know it's rare to have that feel. You feel how the bow flows down and
and the pilot house rounds out It's a beautiful beautiful vessel and hydraulic driven anchor winch
should change a little rusty now but the vessel is in class fully as a US coast guard certification
which is rare on top of that as a passenger vessel and research vessel and then she also has ABS
load lines and ABS class so all our machinery is cared for and maintained to the highest standard
and many a mile you know many an ocean expedition has been has been witnessed and experienced from
this locations standing right here all over the world nice boat this is a nice boat
we have this cherry flooring in here and all the electronics she's set up for you know of course
if you converted it over to a yacht this would be a beautiful beautiful area for a big settee area
back in here and you could turn this into a very a nice integrated pilot house lounge area here
they use this for navigation for survey There's an integrated control and maintenance system it
monitors the generators and the automation of the machinery generators main engines what a
great area for you know sun deck and you know with the bimini up here and looking down over the bow
we're above the pilot house here good height great visibility yeah She can carry up to 45 people on
board - she meets passenger ship criteria for the number of life rafts that she carries - with
science cranes and science equipment, a number of hard bottom inflatable launches
on here that are used but primarily the a-frame is used for science for deploying
scientific tools ROV's AUV's over the stern
and then she has other various a-frames that they go off the side the j-frames and
single-legged j-frames and those are for deploying scientific instrumentation for water quality and
current and salinity and coring devices and that type of thing off either side port and starboard
wet lab for wet lab species and bringing fish and and salinity samples anything
to do with anything that's wet and caustic aboard set up for chemicals This is where
it's happening in the galley - seen about 25 to 30 people in this area so that works well
Number of staterooms up here four to the dining area the galley and the dining area and then of
course your boson's locker and deck machine shop here being used right now preparing She
leaves in just a few hours for this next mission and she's has been at sea for about five months
working and just came in a few days ago and she leaves tomorrow refuels, and leaves tomorrow for
that 35-day mission out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and then she'll come back and
immediately go back on another mission for another four months So a highly highly reliable vessel
She carries I think fifty thousand fuel for 45 days at least. 45 days that's well over
12 000 miles you know over ten thousand at 240 miles a day. The main engine room
where you've got two main engines and then the two generators and the control
space - heart of the ship
she has multiple water makers obviously twin screws cpp propellers
three generators so she can run on either one of these generators in their large capacity
So can support a lot of science and mission related equipment. She's load-lined in class with
a certificate of inspection by the Coast Guard on top of it it's a very thorough set of regulatory
inspections these ships are meant to go offshore long distance you know and carry out that mission
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