Second Seacat delivery for South Boats

The 26m Seacat Courageous is currently contracted to a UK project before it attends the Seawork commercial marine exhibition at Southampton in June, where the vessel will be available for viewing on the quayside at berth V27.

Ben Colman of South Boats IOW Ltd, said: “Thanks to the comprehensive hull form development testing and understanding, we have produced another vessel that sets a benchmark for the offshore wind CTV sector, with the capability of also being used for many other applications.”

Seacat was impressed with the first of class vessel Seacat Intrepid, which is currently working in the German North Sea. The qualities and capabilities of the vessel design, including passenger comfort levels, sea-keeping and turbine access performance have correlated well with the extensive hull research and development programme carried out by South Boats over a number of years to increase working capabilities.

Both Seacat Intrepid and Seacat Courageous remain fully operational with parameters under 3 degrees of pitch (RMS), 4 degrees of roll (RMS) and 0.15g vertical accelerations (RMS) at the LCG – generally regarded as the limiting factors for sea-sickness.

The vessels maintain an average speed of 24.5kts in 1mHs, 18kts in 2mHs and 14kts in 3mHs without any complicated and expensive ride control systems.

By Anne-Marie Causer