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TOP BOATS 2021

Blount Boats

ATLANTIC

ENDEAVOR

AMONG A NEW CLASS OF JONES ACT CTVS

Atlantic Wind Transfers’ (AWT) newest crew transfer HamitonJet waterjets and Humphree USA Interceptors. vessel, Atlantic Endeavor, constructed by Rhode Island Its service speed is 22-24 knots, with a sprint speed of 29 shipbuilder Blount Boats and delivered in January, is just knots. On deck, the CTV has 10 metric tonnes cargo ca- the third purpose-built CTV in the Jones Act ? eet, which pacity, and it is ? tted with a Pal? nger crane and Nabrico is needed to support the burgeoning U.S. offshore wind anchor winch. The vessel is also equipped with a power market for decades to come. washing and fuel transfer system.

The specialized model of the Chartwell 24, designed by AWT, based in Quonset Point, R.I., is the Unite States’

U.K.-based Chartwell Marine Ltd., was modi? ed to com- ? rst owner/operator of CTVs, typically aluminum cata- ply with American environmental and USCG regulations. marans, used for transporting wind farm technicians and

Andy Page, Managing Director of Chartwell Marine, noted other personnel, and sometimes equipment, out to sites several key differences between CTVs built for U.S. and Eu- on a daily basis. Its ? rst CTV, Atlantic Pioneer, was built ropean waters. For one, the underwater pro? le of the U.S. by Blount Boats in 2016 and has been servicing the ? ve version has been modi? ed to operate safely in wavelengths 6-megawatt turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm off and swells along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard that are typically Block Island, R.I.

longer and larger than what’s seen in the North Sea. From a Atlantic Endeavor is based out of Virginia’s Hampton compliance perspective, the designer also considered emis- Roads region under AWT’s long-term O&M CTV con- sions standards variances as well as U.S. legislation protect- tract with Dominion Energy to support its Coastal Virgin- ing the migration route of the protected right whales. ia Offshore Wind Farm (CVOW) pilot project 27-miles

The 64.9-foot Atlantic Endeavor is a twin hulled alu- off Virginia Beach. Manned by two to four crew members, minum catamaran equipped with quad 799-horsepower Atlantic Endeavor has capacity to transport up to 24 wind

MAN engines, Cummins generators, ZF Transmissions, farm technicians.

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