Ferries

Austal Ships

100 Clarence Beach Road,

Henderson Western Australia, 6166 

www.austal.com

Benchijigua Express

Description

Larger than any existing diesel-powered fast ferry - catamaran or monohull - "Benchijigua Express" is world's largest all-aluminium ship and first commercial trimaran with significant commercial and military applications.

With the handover completed on April 13 2005, the new 127 metre, Auto Express 127 trimaran built by the West Australian shipyard, Austal, for Fred. Olsen, S.A. is quite simply the most significant vessel to arrive on the fast ferry stage and is set to allow fast sea transportation to improve and open up new markets beyond the ability of existing fast ferry design for both commercial and military operators.

"The characteristics of this new vessel, with a length of 126.7 metres and beam of 30.4 metres, will improve overall efficiency in terms of passenger capacity, deadweight and freight lane metres by more than 35%. At the same time passenger comfort will increase by 25% to 40% depending on the routes we operate", Mr. Olsen said.

Auto Express 88 - Car/Passenger ferry

Description

Operational in Istanbul - Turkey.

Spirit of Ontario - Car/Passenger ferry

Description

Operational on the great lakes - lake Ontario.

New Ferry LXXX series

Incat Crowther

http://www.incatcrowther.com/

Eagle

Description

The Eagle has been commissioned by World Heritage Cruises in Strahan on the west coast of Tasmania.  The vessel will be operating sight seeing cruises along the Gordon River and out through Hells Gates into the Southern Ocean.

The vessel was designed with a combination of Maxsurf, Workshop, Hydromax and Ship Constructor. 

Cantieri Magazzu

Via Ugo Betti 19,

90147 - Palermo - Italy

www.magazzu.com

Monostab

Description

The Magazzù's lengthy research activity in the field of fast naval transport, produced the innovative idea of stabilising and improving the performance of monohulls by using particular lifting surfaces.
The final industrial result was the conceiving of a totally innovative ship known as "MONOSTAB" (STABilised MONOhull) obtained by the integration of a specially developed semi-planing hull and a totally original system of "active foils" at the stern and operated by an automatic control system with the double role of reducing both the ship's rolling and pitching motion.
In order to control the trim, conventional flaps are used in parallel to avoid saturating the wings and to avoid using unnecessarily large foil systems. 

Advanced Multihull Designs

PO Box 878 Pymble

NSW 2073 AUSTRALIA 

www.amd.com.au

Luciano Federico L

Description

The world's fastest car ferry, designed by AMD and constructed at the yard of Spanish shipbuilder Bazan, was delivered to Buquebus in October 1997. The 77 metre catamaran, "Luciano Federico L", is a gas turbine powered version of the AMD1130 design and is to be operated on the 130 mile Rio de la Plata route from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, carrying 450 passengers and 52 cars.

Chinook - AMD 385 

Marie Helene - AMD 350

Del Norte - AMD 360B

Flying Angle - AMD 150

Aquan 2400

Description

The all aluminum superstructure of the Aquan 2400, was designed by Advanced Multihull Designs for Afai Ships Ltd, with the objective of maximizing internal volume for a given weight, without compromising the aesthetic or simplicity of the vessel. The result is an economical, high capacity medium speed passenger ferry with clean aerodynamic lines.

Damen Shipyards Group

PO Box 1, 4200 AA

Gorinchem, The Netherlands 

www.damen.nl

"Almeida Garrett" and "Jorge el Sena"

Description

"Almeida Garret" and "Jorge el Sena" built by Damen Singapore.

Michael Rikard-Bell & Associates

David Richards

Tel: (+61) 3 9787 7444
Fax: (+61) 3 9787 8929

marba@austarmetro.com.au

Raymond Island Ferry

Description

Chain driven ferry for 21 cars and 50 passengers and with the capacity of handling vehicles of up to 45 tonnes gross vehicle mass.

SCHIFFSTECHNIK BUCHLOH GmbH u. Co. KG

P.O.Box 128, D-53568 Unkel, Germany

Tel: +49 (0)22 24 57 35
Fax: +49 (0)22 24 7 63 49

info@schiffstechnik-buchloh.de
http://www.schiffstechnik-buchloh.de 

Loreley VI- River car ferry

Description

Operational on the river Rhine, Europe.

Olympic Star - River day cruise ship

Teknicraft Design Ltd

Nic de Waal
PO Box 34-712, Birkenhead, Auckland New Zealand

Tel: +64 9 480 1104
Fax: +64 9 480 1304

teknicraft@xtra.co.nz
http://www.teknicraft.com

Spirit

Description

Operational as a whale watcher in the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary in Canada.  

Description

Operational as a whale watcher around the San Juan Islands, WA, USA.

Ace Marine

David J Gray C.Eng. M.R.I.N.A.

1 The Promenade, Limekilns Fife,

KY11 3HH, Scotland

www.acemarine.co.uk

Spirit of Skye

Description

The first of the entirely new “Spirit” class of fast passenger ferry has proven to be a reliable workhorse for her new owners. “Spirit of Skye” entered service with West Highland Seaways on 2nd June 2004, with the keel laid in early January of the same year.

The vessels requirements were to carry 36 passengers and 2 or 3 crew on a twice daily return journey from Gairloch to Portree on the Isle of Skye, a distance of 27 miles. The hull form was designed as an optimum compromise between meeting the requirements for static intact and damage stability, and a minimum GM for dynamic comfort.

The vessel was also required to comply with the new EU Passenger Ship Safety Regulations, the Workboat Code of Practice, and local MCA requirements.

The build time was extremely quick from Sandy Morrison Engineering, Uig, Isle of Skye. Their investment in state of the art CNC plate cutting machinery, coupled with parts generation directly from the computer model in Maxsurf meant parts could be designed, emailed, nested, cut, built and fitted within hours if required.