Fast delivery seals Twin Axe Danish deal

Based in Marstal, Sea Consult is a new customer to Damen and this will be the first Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2610 to be operated by a Danish company. The vessel already has work at Belgian and German offshore wind farms for the next year and the company’s new vessel is expected to be deployed in the next two weeks.

The extremely short delivery time was a major reason the Danish company decided to choose the Damen high speed catamaran. Owner and managing director of Sea Consult, Jan Fabricius says: “Where else can you find a shipyard that has vessels in stock?”

A Letter of Intent was signed in early June. Sea Consult and its crew arrived at Damen’s headquarters at Gorinchem in the Netherlands on 29 June and the vessel sailed with its crew and a Damen engineer to Sea Consult’s Danish base, arriving on June 31.

Mr Fabricius was also onboard for the FCS 2610’s first journey and commented that he was “very satisfied” with the vessel’s performance. “We had seen the Twin Axe FCS 2610 operating at several wind farms and on television and we were particularly impressed by the ‘Axe Bow’.”

The FCS 2610 design enables the safe transfer of personnel onto platforms or wind turbines at wave heights of more than 2.5m. It has a maximum speed of 26 knots (with a range of 1,200 nm, depending on sea state) and low fuel consumption, a result of the low-resistance double Sea Axe bow.

The FCS 2610 is comfortable for the crew in terms of ergonomics and it is known for its ability to operate smoothly in higher sea states. Sea Consult is considering the possibility of building up a small fleet of Damen FCS 2610s.