UK: Northumberland-based aluminium boat builder Alnmaritec has recently delivered a new general purpose line handing and harbour support work boat to Western Australia.
The 'Wave Train' was built for South Sea Logistics, based in Geraldton. She is a customised version of the popular Wave Angler-class of vessels from Alnmaritec and is the first boat that the company has ever sold to Australia.
'Wave Train' is an aluminium asymmetric catamaran measuring 10.15-metres-long and 4.8-metres-wide, with a displacement of around eleven tonnes.
She is fitted with twin 265kW Cummins QSB diesel engines driving through conventional ZF gearboxes to a pair of Hamilton 292 waterjets. These give her a top speed of 22 knots, a bollard pull of two tonnes and good manoeuvrability suited for close quarters work around the harbour.
The vessel carries a complement of three crew and six passengers in the wheelhouse and she has a large working deck aft which is serviced by a Palfinger PK 2500 hydraulic knuckle boom crane and a two-tonne hydraulic capstan.
