The First ESNA Sea Puffin SES Daughter Craft Ordered
The vessel is being built by Esbjerg Shipyard in Denmark and will be delivered to WindPartner in early 2018.
The high-performance 15 m long SES daughter craft employs an air cushion for active motion damping, allowing offshore wind turbine access capability as for a much larger vessel. It is deployable by a standard 15 ton davit system and is designed to distribute personnel from mother ships or platforms to turbines in offshore wind farms.
"We like to say that "a SES punches above its length". The air cushion takes away motions, giving transit motions and access to offshore turbines as had it been a much larger vessel." explains Naval Architect Nere Skomedal in ESNA. "This is really the key to why we have so much faith in and interest for this daughter craft. Sea Puffin provides a significantly larger weather window than competing daughter craft and reduces the need of support from land based vessels".
It is the ship design office ESNA that has developed the Sea Puffin. The first vessel is built by Esbjerg Shipyard in Denmark and is contracted by WindPartner. WindPartner is an independent shipowner and ship manager, based in Kristiansand, Norway. Their innovative business model for the daughter craft is to offer it for charter to vessel owners and wind farm operators. It can for instance be chartered to support an accommodation vessel in an installation campaign. WindPartner is in addition a complete service provider and can complement the daughter craft with davit systems for launch and recovery as well as crew and technicians. WindPartner and ESNA have a long-time cooperation agreement with the ambition to build a series of Sea Puffins the coming years.
Also as a fuel efficient near-shore CTV
"The Sea Puffin is really an optimum SES design. It is just the right size where there the SES properties provide greatly improved performances compared to other vessel solutions", says Naval Architect Trygve Halvorsen Espeland in ESNA. "Because of the limited vessel size the fuel consumption is also low. Replacing the lifting hook with passenger seats, it can be used as a 12pax fuel efficient near-shore crew transfer vessel".
The vessel will be delivered to WindPartner early 2018 and is available for charter during the summer 2018. Development of the Sea Puffin has been supported by the Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator, Regional Research Council Agder (RFFAgder) and The Sørlandet Knowledge Foundation (SKF). ENOVA and Innovation Norway is supporting WindPartner with building the first vessel.
More about WindPartner: www.windpartner.no
Espeland & Skomedal Naval Architects
The vessel is being built by Esbjerg Shipyard in Denmark and will be delivered to WindPartner in early 2018.
The high-performance 15 m long SES daughter craft employs an air cushion for active motion damping, allowing offshore wind turbine access capability as for a much larger vessel. It is deployable by a standard 15 ton davit system and is designed to distribute personnel from mother ships or platforms to turbines in offshore wind farms.
"We like to say that "a SES punches above its length". The air cushion takes away motions, giving transit motions and access to offshore turbines as had it been a much larger vessel." explains Naval Architect Nere Skomedal in ESNA. "This is really the key to why we have so much faith in and interest for this daughter craft. Sea Puffin provides a significantly larger weather window than competing daughter craft and reduces the need of support from land based vessels".
It is the ship design office ESNA that has developed the Sea Puffin. The first vessel is built by Esbjerg Shipyard in Denmark and is contracted by WindPartner. WindPartner is an independent shipowner and ship manager, based in Kristiansand, Norway. Their innovative business model for the daughter craft is to offer it for charter to vessel owners and wind farm operators. It can for instance be chartered to support an accommodation vessel in an installation campaign. WindPartner is in addition a complete service provider and can complement the daughter craft with davit systems for launch and recovery as well as crew and technicians. WindPartner and ESNA have a long-time cooperation agreement with the ambition to build a series of Sea Puffins the coming years.
Also as a fuel efficient near-shore CTV
"The Sea Puffin is really an optimum SES design. It is just the right size where there the SES properties provide greatly improved performances compared to other vessel solutions", says Naval Architect Trygve Halvorsen Espeland in ESNA. "Because of the limited vessel size the fuel consumption is also low. Replacing the lifting hook with passenger seats, it can be used as a 12pax fuel efficient near-shore crew transfer vessel".
The vessel will be delivered to WindPartner early 2018 and is available for charter during the summer 2018. Development of the Sea Puffin has been supported by the Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator, Regional Research Council Agder (RFFAgder) and The Sørlandet Knowledge Foundation (SKF). ENOVA and Innovation Norway is supporting WindPartner with building the first vessel.
More about WindPartner: www.windpartner.no
Espeland & Skomedal Naval Architects
