First Sprinter leaves blocks
The official sea trials have been held of the first CoCo Yachts designed and Afai Southern Shipyard built Urban Sprinter 2000 fast ferry, named ‘Pão de Açúcar’. This is the first vessel out of a series of seven Urban Sprinters which will sail on Guanabara Bay between Rio de Janeiro and Niterói.
The vessel’s recorded speed at deep-water and trial load condition when running at 90% power was 18.3 knots. The sleek long hulls are designed to optimise efficiency with very small propeller diameters to ensure the required maximum draft of 1.8m, and at the same time reduce fuel consumption. When running on one main diesel generator and four azimuth thrusters, a speed of approximately 15 knots can be achieved in trial load condition.
Due to the vessel’s considerable noise & vibration insulation measures, low noise and vibration levels were achieved, with an average noise level of 60 dB(a) in the passenger areas and 64 dB(a) in the wheelhouses. The propulsion package consists of Caterpillar main diesel generators, Bakker Sliedrecht – PON electric propulsion and Veth contra rotating azimuth thrusters,
The vessel has been designed and built to embark and disembark on main and upper deck at the same time, resulting in a reduced time in port of approximately five minutes. The builders claim that this improved efficiency will be used to increase sailing frequency in peak hours to increase the number of passengers, or to further reduce fuel consumption in down times.
Urban Sprinter 2000 – Pão de Açúcar should be loaded on a Cosco heavy lift vessel early November, and is expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro before the end of 2014.
By Jake Frith
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Type of vessel : Double ended passenger ferry
Owner : Setrans
Operator : CCR
Designer : CoCo Yachts
Builder : Afai Southern Shipyard (Panyu Guangzhou) Ltd
Length o.a. : 78.4 m
Beam o.a. : 14.8 m
Depth : 4.0 m
Maximum draft to underside propeller : 1.8 m
Hull type : Symmetrical double ended catamaran
Hull & superstructure material : Marine grade aluminium
Passenger capacity seated : 1000
Passenger capacity standing : 1000
Crew : 9
Main diesel generators : two (2) Caterpillar 3512
Power : 2x 1550 ekW
Auxiliary diesel generators : two (2) Caterpillar C9
Power : 2x 215 ekW
Electrical propulsion system : Bakker Sliedrecht
Azimuth thrusters : Four (4) Veth VZC-700
Service speed at 90% MCR and trial load : 18.3 knots
Fuel capacity : 15.000 litres
Fresh water capacity : 10.000 litres
Sewage capacity : 15.000 litres
Maximum deadweight : 200 tons
Navigation & communication equipment : Furuno
HVAC : DMA Shanghai
Classification : Bureau Veritas
Notation : I5Z✠ Hull IN(0,6)✠Mach Passenger vessel/Fire/ Al
Flag : Brazil flag – NORMAM 02
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