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Feature 3 | NORWAY Distinctive RIBs for commercial applications


Norwegian RIB builders focus almost entirely on the commercial and military sectors rather than for leisure, and they have developed a unique style, according to Dag Pike.


building RIBs that meet the requirements more towards the top end of the market rather than looking at mass production. Te offshore oil sector requirement for


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fast rescue boats (FRC) has been behind much of the development, and in the case of Norsafe and Noreq, this has been a spin-off from the wider LSA market. Maritime Partner, which is the largest builder of RIBs in Norway, has grown out of four specialist FRC builders: Alusafe, Springer, Seabear, and Weedo, hence the name Maritime Partner, which is primarily a marketing company for the group. Maritime Partner has sold over 800


boats during its life and these range in size from 5m to 25m, making this one of the largest range of RIBs available. Te main range comes from the Alusafe stable where there are 13 boats that include the large top end RIBs used as serious patrol boats by military and para-military requirements. Several of these designs have been used


for search and rescue operations including the NSSR, the Norwegian Lifeboat Service. The Spanish Red Cross has adopted Alusafe designs for its lifeboats and these are built in Spain under licence, whilst a recent order is for six Alusafe 2000 RIBs that will be used for the Algerian Rescue Service. The selection of the 2000 design


for this latest contract is based on experience with similar craft in Spain. Tis design is 20m long and is operated by a four-man crew with internal space for a large number of survivors. Powered by two MTU diesels the top speed is around 30knots and the boats are equipped for towing, fire-fighting, medical emergen- cies, salvage, as well as normal rescue work. Te wheelhouse is fully enclosed and the tube of the RIB is a covered foam attached to the hull, similar to that used


36 One of Maritime Partner’s FRCs.


on virtually all Norwegian RIBs. To demonstrate the versatility of the


designs offered by Maritime Partner, it delivered an 11.5m fire-fighting vessel that was designed to operate in Oslo Fjord amongst the many islands. Tis 40knot boat is powered by twin 440hp diesels coupled to waterjets, and it has a beaching capability. A separate 200hp diesel powers the fire pump with a remote-controlled monitor on the wheelhouse roof.


SOLAS requirements Te rest of the Maritime Partner range is mainly open RIBs with specialist designs developed to meet the require- ments of the offshore oil industry for FRCs and for SOLAS FRCs. Apart from the SOLAS design, most are powered by diesel engines coupled to waterjets. Many of the smaller designs are used by the military as tenders. Norsafe offers 16 rescue boat designs that range from 4.5m MOB boats to meet


SOLAS requirements, up to 12m daughter craſt for use in the offshore oil industry. Most of these rescue boats are sold as


part of a full LSA package that includes lifeboats and davits, but the company is branching out into the patrol boat market. A recent order is for two of its Munin 1200 designs for the Abu Dhabi Police in the UAE. Tis contract follows on from two similar boats delivered to the Dubai Police last year. Tese designs are based on the daughter


craſt concepts with twin diesel engines coupled to waterjet propulsion. Two of these have recently been ordered for an oil platform being built at Hyundai Heavy Industries. Noreq AS, a company that specialises


in offshore and SOLAS equipment has introduced a new concept of FRC. Te Noreq FRB 700 is the first of a new genera- tion of aluminium FRCs and introduces several new features. It combines the requirements of a rescue and workboat with


Ship & Boat International May/June 2008


n keeping with the Norwegian focus on sophisticated workboats, Norwegian RIB builders have tended toward


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