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T he 70m Fast Crew Boat (FCB) was christened Muslim Mago- mayev at a ceremony at the In- cat shipyard last month. This is the fi rst vessel that Australian Shipbuilder Incat

Tasmania has purpose built for the oil and gas industry, and when sea trials are completed the boat will depart to Baku,

Azerbaijan. During construction over the past year the fast crew boat has been referred to simply as Incat hull 074 but is now bearing the name Muslim Mago- mayev in honor of Azerbaijan’s famous opera and popular music singer Muslim

Magomayev who died in 2008. Mago- mayev was a renowned entertainer not just in Azerbaijan but all the former So- viet states, often dubbed as their answer to Sinatra.

This fi rst of type DP2 class 70m ves- sel is being delivered to Caspian Marine

Services to operate fast crew transfers for 150 offshore workers to multiple in- stallations in the Caspian Sea. The high speed of the 70m FCB will allow opera- tional effi ciency over helicopter transfer for both passengers and cargo, while the semi-SWATH hull design, along with active ride control, will reduce stress on passengers. Muslim Magomayev has ap- proximately 200 metric tons deadweight and is capable of carrying 150 passen- gers and 14 crew, along with 130 metric tons of deck cargo, in up to 40 knot wind and seas of 3 meters signifi cant wave height. The 275-sq.-m. cargo deck will allow the vessel to complete cargo hot shots over a range of 400 nautical miles at speeds of up to 35 knots.

The vessel’s 16m beam is narrower than is usual for an Incat catamaran but determined by the width of the Volga-

Don Canal that it must transit on its de- livery from Hobart, Tasmania to Baku in

Azerbaijan. The power for Incat hull 074 is supplied by four 2,880kW MTU en- gines each turning Hamilton HT 900 wa- terjets. Anticipated design speed was 36 knots with an effi cient service speed of 30 knots at full load and 90% MCR, sea trials have not yet been completed, but on her fi rst day on the water the vessel comfortably achieved 38.7 knots light- ship. Thrustmaster said four of its Re- tractable Thrusters Model TH300MLRN are installed on this vessel with a total of 1,200 hp. The ship has been constructed of lightweight marine grade aluminum over the past year at Incat Tasmania’s

Derwent Park Hobart shipyard, with concept design by Incat Crowther of

Sydney and production engineering by

Revolution Design Pty Ltd (Incat Tas- mania’s design team). It is the fi rst craft

Incat has built to the DNV Clean Design notation, giving it a “Green Passport”. 70m Fast Crew Boat Christened

BUILT IN AUSTRALIA AT INCAT TASMANIA FOR AZERBAIJAN

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