CTruk sees sales success at Seawork

The company sold and will build the first CVenture40, which offers year round utilisation for its owner/operators through a most unique versatility which enables it to switch between super yacht and wind farm support vessel roles. CTruk also sold four 19m multi-purpose catamarans (MPC) at Seawork.

Andy White, chairman of CTruk Boats said, “These orders establish CTruk Boats as the leading, innovative UK shipyard and demonstrate the demand for ground-breaking vessels with solid specifications. The innovative construction of our 19m and 28m workboats means they are half the cost of similar aluminium vessels.”

The CVenture40 is designed to offer luxury expedition charters in the Caribbean in the winter months, with as little as 1m draft enabling access to remote locations where other super yachts cannot go. CTruk Boats’ flexible pod system means that, in the style of 18^th century British warships, the charter cabins can be broken down to carry technicians to service offshore windfarms in the European summer.

The four 19m MPCs have been ordered by an existing operator and three new owner-operators as part of CWind’s boat share scheme. These vessels will be built this year and immediately go on contract to the UK’s east coast.

CWind also had one of the smallest and most unusual boats on the Seawork pontoon in the form of Avenger, a 4.85m LOA rescue craft designed for servicing the offshore wind farm sector.

Whilst working at the Gunfleet Sands offshore windfarm, only 7 km off the Essex coast and subject to drying out, the CTruk team hit upon the idea of replacing the traditional rescue hovercraft with a new amphibious craft equally at home on land or sea. It can be launched from a mother vessel to carry out support assignments and rescues in shallow water and on sandbanks at low tide.

Avenger can be launched day or night in wave heights of up to 1m and will carry two crew, two passengers and, if required, a casualty on a stretcher cradle. It is also capable of providing survey and cable operations support. Powered at sea by a 25hp Yamaha outboard which takes it to 20 mph and on land by a 26hp Kohler engine which reaches 6 mph, Avenger is classed as an MCA certified rescue vessel for working within three miles of a mother vessel. The first Avenger is currently working with Siemens at the London Array offshore wind farm.