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Anatoki
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Built by Furumoto in Osaki, she is powered by one 556kW Matsui diesel, producing a service speed of 10 knots. She was originally used to carry pipes and steel products on short voyages in Japan.
Named after the Anatoki Peak, near Takaka, on arrival in Nelson from Japan in January 2008, plenty of work was required to her to make her fit for purpose, and able to operate round the coast with a crew of four on board. To say what occurred was controversial ...
Some sections of the hold were plated to make her a 'box hold' vessel. Nothing untoward there. The real fun and games, however, surrounded the drilling of a series of holes in her bow, mainly between the port and starboard anchors.
Cue any amount of lively discussion among the maritime fraternity, with Maritime NZ very much subject to vitriol-tinged comments for giving this highly unusual development the green light.
 Ever since, "Anatoki" has carried all sorts of bulk cargoes around New Zealand's coast, visiting almost every port in our land, including the Chatham Islands. Her first visit to Onehunga was to land a consignment of WestStone aggregate from Greymouth.
Poles, urea, cement, grain, gravel, fertiliser, alumina ... you name it, she's carried it if it's outside the capabilities of the vast majority of ships which visit these shores - over 300,000 tonnes worth of cargo, to April 2016. In December 2017, she carried her 1000th cargo around the coast when on a run from Napier to Gisborne.
She has the unusual distinction of a Shinto Shrine on her bridge, a nod to the previous owners, who built the vessel and used her to move steel round Japan for the first fifteen years of her life.
The OK on her funnel reflects her previous ownership - "We left it on because it seemed OK to do it!", quipped Coastal Bulk Shipping's General Manager, Doug Smith, when asked about its significance.
During her time on the coast, she's endured a couple of "events", including a collision with a bulk carrier in foggy conditions near Tauranga in April 2008 (this report includes important details re why the aforementioned bow work was required), and a grounding incident near Golden Bay in May 2010.
She is pictured in the top photo en route to Onehunga from Greymouth on 10 January 2016, carrying 801 tonnes of decorative stone. This was the vessel's 826th voyage since commencing work in New Zealand in April 2008.
In that time, she has had a new foredeck fitted by the team at Aimex in Nelson - they are Coastal Bulk Shipping's first stop for any repairs "Anatoki" requires in her home port, where she can spend lengthy periods of time in between loads - she has been known to spend weeks at a time sitting idle alongside, such is the nature of the bulk cargoes business.
 Unloading aggregates from Greymouth on her first visit to Onehunga, 1 September 2008. Taken by Stephen Chester, www.shipspotting.com
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