Rozema Boat Works of Mount Vernon, Wash., is finishing two new 31-foot aluminum boom boats for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company’s oil-spill-response fleet at the Valdez Marine Terminal in Alaska. The purpose-built vessels are sisterships of boats Rozema delivered to Alyeska 25 years ago, updated with modern equipment and configuration improvements drawn from decades of operating experience in Prince William Sound.

The boats work around the clock, deploying and maintaining containment boom around tankers loading crude at the terminal and towing thousands of feet of heavy boom in the high seas and winds common to Valdez. Built with a low profile to operate beneath the terminal’s loading-dock catwalks at any tide, they also support anchor handling, oil-skimmer operations and boom inflation through in-house-fabricated hydraulic deck systems, and are powered by twin Cummins QSB6.7-SW diesels rated at 305 hp each.

Awarded through competitive bidding, the two newbuilds will join 14 other Rozema-built vessels already in Alyeska’s response fleet and are due for delivery this summer, shipped north aboard barges operated by Sitka-based Samson Tug & Barge.

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