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An alien catamaran design I built for Michael Rutherford's Traders of the Rift display at Brickworld 2010
Catamaran on Varadero Beach. Cuba
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Damen Shipyards Gorinchem is the headquarters of the Damen Shipyards Group. Damen Shipyards Gorinchem delivers Platform Supply Vessels, Anchor Handling Tug Suppliers and Standby Safety Vessels.
About the photo
The vessel under construction in this picture is a Twin Axe Catamaran, the Damen High Speed Support Vessel (HSSV) 2610. The vessel will be used to supply crews to offshore wind turbines. The twin axe catamaran was designed to operate in deeper sea conditions as offshore wind farms are being installed at greater distances from shore.
With a 'normal' type vessel it is not safe to transfer crew from the vessel to an off-shore platform when wave heights exceed 1 meter. The Twin Axe Catamaran has transferred maintenance crew to turbines in wave heights of 1.9 meters.
The craft is made almost entirely from aluminium and I was lucky enough to capture it without paint on it. I really love the way the bare metal reflects the light.
About the Axe Bow
The Axe Bow concept was developed in the beginning of the 21st century together with Delft University of Technology, MARIN and the US Coastguard. The revolutionary hull shape has unparallelled seakeeping characteristics. Vessels with an Axe Bow have superior motion behaviour, much lower resistance, improved fuel consumption and because of this, lower emissions.
More information on the Axe Bow Concept can be found here:
www.damen.nl/innovation/projects/sea-axe-bow
For Damen Shipyards and Verebus Engineering, Patrick Andriessen from NAPNAM is helping to author the Green Passports (Inventory of Hazardous Materials) for several ships.