Airkeel stabilizers
Airkeel vessel stabilizers can be fitted to all boats and ships in need of stabilization up to 40 m in length and/or up to 200 t of displacement. We provide stabilizers for the most common boat types, including monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans.
Please contact our sales team on sales@dacoma-dk.com to hear more about our leasing and rental packages.
Crew Transfer Vessel
Installation, operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms requires specially trained technicians on-site. Crew transfer operators offer transfer of technical personnel to the wind farms as a service. The operators use high speed Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV), that often are specifically designed for this task and they usually carry 12-24 industrial personnel onboard for transporting them to the wind farms and the wind turbines.
Depending on the distance from the shore to their location, wind farms often are exposed to strong winds and high waves. In the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, wind turbines are inaccessible for CTVs for between 100 to 160 days each year, due to the adverse weather conditions.
In the remaining time, motion sickness often leads to loss of industrial staff productivity, resulting in further costs and eventually project delays. This loss is estimated to be at around € 300 - € 450 million/year on the global offshore wind industry scale.
With the Airkeel stabilizer, roll and heave motions of CTVs are drastically reduced, which means that they can potentially operate at 0.5 m higher significant wave height. This adds additional 40 days of operation in the weather window, where CTV would otherwise be forced to stay in harbour.
In addition, crew comfort and safety are increased while motion sickness is reduced, which adds another 100 days of near 100% technical staff productivity. Since most of the CTV operate at semi planing speeds between the shore and the wind farm, about 5-10% of fuel consumption and hence CO2 emissions are saved due to the reduced total ship resistance caused by the use of Airkeel.
Work- & crewboats
Whether you work in exposed areas with high probability of tall waves and strong winds or in more sheltered waters, our Airkeel can make a difference for your operations. Work- and crewboats equipped with Airkeel offer a rock stable platform to work from, even in adverse weather. Stabilization works at all practical speeds – even at zero speed.
Due to its buoyancy and its ability to shift the buoyancy to one side, Airkeel increases cargo and over-the-side crane capacity of the work- and crew boats by a factor of two or more. This means that even lightweight and fast vessels of less than 15 m length can be equipped with an 8-10 tm crane.
The controlled heel option of our advanced Airkeel control system makes it possible to keep the boat at a pre-selected roll angle, which facilitates salvage and on-boarding of people, e.g. divers, and equipment through a side hatch.
Contact the Dacoma sales team and find out how can Airkeel boost your workboat operations and increase fleet efficiency.
Leisure boats & Super Yachts
Looking for for the ultimate boating experience? Look no further. Increase the comfort for you and your guests, while exploring the most marvellous places in the ocean.
The Airkeel stabilizer is the right solution for everyone who wants to combine passenger comfort and safety with ultimate performance in waves. At the same time, you can still be responsible in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Choose the greenest stabiliser on the market.
With Airkeel you can get a reliable, easy to handle stabilizer that uses very little space inside your Super Yacht.
Create more enjoyable moments with comfortable stabilization.
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