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R/V   SAKONNET

The 35-foot fiberglass research vessel Sakonnet based in Hull, MA is fully equipped and insured and available for charter for oceanographic survey and sampling operations.

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Video Survey in Mystic River (click to enlarge)

Vibrocoring in Boston Harbor (click to enlarge)

Sakonnet Steaming

 

 Capabilities

Fisheries Research Geophysical Surveys
Coring and Sediment Sampling Mooring  Operations

 

 Past Experience

Vibrocore operations Boston Harbor for Triton Environmental
Acoustic Doppler Survey for ENSR in Cape Cod Bay
Benthic video survey of the Mystic River for SAIC
Vibrocoring for the Boston Harbor Improvement Project (ACOE)
Mussel Cage Deployments for Battelle Ocean Sciences
Dredge Plume Monitoring New Bedford Harbor for ENSR
CSO Monitoring, Boston Harbor (Dorchester Bay) for Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.

 

 

 

Specifications

Length:           35 Feet      Beam: 11.5 Feet
Draft:              3   Feet Speed: 18 Knots
Fuel Consumption:    4 gal/hr   Fuel Capacity 170 gallons
50 sq feet lab space in pilot house 150 sq feet deck space

                                                

Machinery/ Deck Equipment

220 HP John Deere 6068T 8000 lb capacity winch
1000 lb capacity boom 1000 lb capacity capstan
2000 lb 12 foot high Hydraulic A-Frame

 

Electronics

Northstar 951X Differential GPS Sitex VS-106 200 kHz Echosounder
Standard Horizon Eclipse  VHF Radio
Furuno 32-mile Radar Prosign 3000-watt inverter

                             

Safety Equipment

Revere Solus “A” 4 man life raft 4 Survival Suits

                              

For further information, contact Chip Ryther or Charlotte Cogswell of CR Environmental, Inc. at 508-563-7970 (Phone/Fax)