Havyard’s First WE Design Ready for Outfitting

After four weeks of towing from Turkey, the first hull of the characteristic Havyard’s WE design arrived today at Leirvik shipyard for final outfitting.

Havyard’s newbuild 120 “Polarsyssel”, is scheduled for delivery to the Icelandic shipping company Fafnir Offshore in late August 2014. The newbuild is the first of the 832 L WE design, and will be involved in assignments for the district governor of Svalbard, among many others.

Since 2011 Havyard has carried out comprehensive research and development work, focusing on the vessel’s hull lines and how this may affect slamming, motions and fuel consumption.

Both MARINTEK and MARIN, which are amongst the leading research environments in Europe, have been actively involved in the development. Also, Havyard found extremely useful the advanced measurements carried out at their own shipyard during all test voyages over the last few years.

“There we manage to control any possible divergences between simulations and real-life experiences. The WE concept is therefore a result of cooperation across many different departments in Havyard Group, where the vision ‘Improving life at sea’ is a constant,” says Design Manager Arve Leine of Havyard Design & Solutions.

“Havyard’s WE design is easily recognizable, but to Havyard this is much more than a design look and signature. The distinctive design is the slim, streamlined bow with adjoining bulb, as well as fins in the afterbody. These fins take care of optimal water influx for thrusters and they considerably increase efficiency without increased ship resistance. Test results and simulations have shown that both resistance and thruster efficiency are influenced in an extremely favourable way,” he explains.

The vessel is designed, planned and constructed according to the district governor’s demands. This means the ship has ice-reinforced hull with ice class ICE 1B, she also has Winterized Basic class. A detachable helideck is mounted amidships and onboard Refuelling System for helicopters is planned for.

Because of regulations for carrying out possible emergency tugs, there is a towing winch installed on main deck. Accommodation and outfitting are also carried out according to the district governor’s demands.

Key data for Havyard 832 WE:

Length: 88.5 m

Breadth: 17.6 m

Speed: 15 knots

Deck area: 850 square metres

Crew: 30 persons

Dead weight: 3700 tonnes

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havyard, April 4, 2014