Oma Baatbyggeri News

Norwegian shipbuilder Oma Baatbyggeri handed over its third vessel to the Danish shipping company Offshore Windservice AS at the beginning of November.Designed and developed in collaboration with Odfjell Wind AS in Bergen, the aluminum newbuild FOB Swath 10 is a 32-meter-long and 11.5-meter-wide crew transfer vessel (CTV) built for transporting service personnel for offshore wind turbines.Equipped with interceptors and fin stabilizers are supplied by Humphree AB, the vessel can operate both in catamaran mode or in Small Waterline Area Twin (SWATH) mode.In SWATH mode…

Two recent refits of waterjets are unique in one respect that they allow a direct comparison between waterjet brands, while everything else remains unchanged. Waterjets from Marine Jet Power were recently used to solve some significant propulsion issues and in one case the exchange even helped a yard to achieve its project goals leading to the fact that the yard finally was able to deliver the ships to the owners. In the first case, the operator of a 10-year-old vessel decided to change to MJP DRB jets due to significant service and corrosion issues on the existing waterjets.