Currently in build at Tyovene yard in Finland are 3 x 29m Typhoon Class Swath CTVs for Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd. (MCS).
These are an extension of the existing 2 Typhoon Class Swath CTVs in operation with MCS. This new design has evolved to satisfy the new regulations of being fully IMO Tier III complaint, a fully compliant IMO Ballast Water Management System, as well as being hybrid ready. They carry 30 tonnes of deadweight along with 24 technicians in comfortable business class seating owing to the extremely low motions of a Swath hull form.
It is a larger version of the hugely successful Typhoon Class of Swaths currently operated by MCS, thereby pushing the safe operational envelope, from their existing Hs=2.5m even farther to the holy grail of Hs=3.0m.
As noted by Menno Kuyt Commercial Director at MCS and operator of two Swath CTVs by AHMD “The major advantage of the SWATH design and its superior response to high seas is that the vessel can operate up to an extra 100 days a year compared to a conventional catamaran that has to stay in port in rough weather”.
In addition, this advanced hull form exhibits extremely low resistance at low/loitering speeds. This current Swath hull form requires less than 50% power compared to an equivalent size and displacement conventional catamaran CTV vessel when operating at slow speed, thereby reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
It also features a DP0 system to enable the Capt’s to manoeuvre the CTV onto the towers in the higher winds and seas that other CTVs are unable to owing to their wave high limitations.
