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Canaveral Pilots Partner with Glosten/Ray Hunt for Electric Pilot Boat

Canaveral Pilots Association (Canaveral Pilots) has part- ted with a Glosten-designed battery propulsion system will nered with naval architecture ? rms Glosten and Ray Hunt achieve the speed and operating range required to support

Design (Ray Hunt) on a pilot/demonstration project for the normal pilotage operations in Port Canaveral. “We are happy design, construction, and operation of an electric pilot boat. with how this is taking shape,” said Morgan Fanberg, Presi-

The boat will feature a battery-electric propulsion system dent of Glosten. “Ray Hunt brings a wealth of knowledge on with an emergency ‘get home’ diesel engine. Once in service, planing hulls and pilot vessels, speci? cally. Combining that it will serve as one of two primary boats for supporting pilot- with our own experience in electric propulsions systems, we age operations in Port Canaveral. hope to provide an excellent working solution for Canaveral

During the feasibility-level engineering, the team estab- Pilots.” Speci? c design details remain con? dential at this lished that a Ray Hunt stage, but the minimum performance criteria established by hull form out? t- Port Canaveral included a cruising speed of 18 knots and an operating range (on battery propulsion only) of 24 nautical miles. Currently, there are no pilot boats operating in the

U.S. with hybrid or fully electric propulsion systems. “The technology isn’t necessarily new. The challenge is managing total weight in relation to the hull form and the required operating pro? le,” says Winn Willard, President of

Ray Hunt.

Glosten

The fully-integrated digital system on

Bastø Fosen VI automatically performs all docking and crossing functions to a high and repeatable level of accuracy, ensur- ing that best practice is followed to the smallest detail on every transit. The result is more exact timekeeping and improved customer satisfac-tion: during trials in

December, Bastø Fosen VI consistently ar- rived within two seconds of the sched-uled time. Øyvind Lund, CEO, Bastø Fosen, said, “Today, at the press of a button, one of our vessels left the quay in Horten, crossed the Oslo fjord and docked in Moss, all completely automatically.”

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