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South Boats IOW launch new first of class 22m service vessel

By: Lewis Holdsworth 23/01/2015 South Boats IOW

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South Boats IOW, a UK manufacturer for Wind Farm Service Vessels (WFSV), has launched its first of class South Cat 22m named ‘Iceni Venture’ for Iceni Marine Services Ltd.

The all new South Cat 22m has benefitted from the extensive testing programme carried out to understand the benefits and limitations to various hull forms and how they perform differently specifically as offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels. This demands from this industry are unique, vessels need to perform well in high sea states providing high levels of technician comfort as well as crew comfort whilst loitering coupled to flexible cargo payloads, fuel efficiency and of course provide higher sea state technician transfers. Many of the hull forms that demonstrated peaks of performance in one area tended to have dramatic limitations in another. The all new South Cat 22m addresses this and promises to deliver a new benchmark for CTV performance. In addition, this design has been fully tank tested to optimise its sea-keeping, running trim and performance.

South Boats launches South Cat 22m Iceni Venture

South Boats launches South Cat 22m Iceni Venture

‘Iceni Venture’ measures 23.1m LOA, has a beam of 8m and an operational displacement of circa. 68 tonnes. The most noticeable feature of the 22m is the height of the bow and definition of the wet deck along with the depth of the hulls coupled to reduced height of the technician saloon. Model testing results are showing dramatic improvements to ride comfort in higher sea states, significantly better WTG access performance and lower fuel burn rates.

“We are delighted to launch this first of class of vessel to Iceni Marine Services, who have a long standing relationship with South Boats IOW and our co-operation over eight CTV’s has assisted the development of the South Catamaran product range.’’ said Ben Colman, South Boats IOW.

“This new class of vessel has proved immensely popular with a further three in build alongside two 26m vessels.”

This vessel is contracted to significant O&M contract but will be available for inspection at Seawork 2015.

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South Boats IOW launch new first of class 22m service vessel

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