Dockwise Yacht Transport Launches New Yacht Carrier
20 April 2007 by EDB
Recently we mentioned the Far Harbour 39, a sailboat designed around the specific parameters that enable it to fit inside a 40 foot shipping container, making trans-ocean moves to distant ports very easy. All well and good, you say, but what if you already have a yacht and no desire to purchase something else?
Dockwise, a company specializing in semi-submersible heavy lift vessels capable of moving all sorts of things from drilling rigs to submarines also offers services for moving yachts worldwide with float-on/float-off yacht transport service. Their ships are specifically designed for the job and they’ve just launched a new supership, the 685.7-foot (209 meters) Yacht Express.
… built at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China, (it) has an official delivery date of May, 2007. It will be the largest vessel of its kind in the world, purpose-built with a semi-submersible dock bay that allows yachts of any size to be safely floated on and off as cargo. Yacht Express will join four other dedicated yacht carriers, all semi-submersible, in the existing liner service of DYT.
With a speed of 18 knots, it cuts transit time in half and with a beam of 106 feet (32 meters) and deck space of 55,060 feet (5,115 square meters), the vessel has a carrying capacity of 5,000 metric tons. An amazing ship and very useful service for those with the desire to sail distant ports with the added feature that your boat doesn’t have to fit inside a little box, either!
Link: Dockwise
Link: Dockwise “Yacht Express”via Gizmag
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