Earlier this year, Hvide Sande Shipyard (Denmark) won a public tender for the design and construction of a new 64m Offshore Patrol Vessel. As the lifecycle costs and seakeeping characteristics are very important for this vessel, Hvide Sande Shipyard worked with Hull...
The Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation has recently confirmed the order for a Hull Vane® for the 108m Oceangoing Patrol Vessel HNLMS Zeeland, marking two firsts for the Dutch company. It is the first Hull Vane® on a naval ship and the first Hull Vane® on a vessel...
For several years now, we’ve been researching and testing the effect on fast-planing vessels of a hydrofoil positioned amidships beneath the hull, a.k.a. the Foil Assist. We were aiming to support a major portion of the vessel’s weight on the foil rather than on its...
Energy-saving retrofits are commonplace on large cargo vessels and cruise ships. But can an energy-saving retrofit also make a significant difference on a small passenger vessel? Swiss ship owner CGN, which operates a fleet of 19 passenger ships on Lake Geneva,...
Yerseke Watersportservice’s owner-manager, Gerard Sentse, was the first client to take delivery of our new semi-custom Hull Vane®. He was intrigued to find out what effect this ‘underwater spoiler’ would have once fitted to the Colinda – an 18.5-m (60.5 ft) aluminium...
Hull Vane keeps innovating. At the request of a client for a lighter weight solution, the first carbon Hull Vane® has been designed and built, in collaboration with Holland Composites. Our designers fully embraced the freedom of form offered by the composite...
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