{"id":66,"date":"2015-11-18T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/20845.graphitasdev.co.uk\/news\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-06-13T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:12:08","slug":"south-boats-iow-awarded-four-boat-seacat-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/south-boats-iow-awarded-four-boat-seacat-order\/","title":{"rendered":"South Boats IOW awarded four boat Seacat order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seacat Services has placed an order for up to 4 new vessels with Alicat sister company South Boats IoW. The DNV-GL class-certified next generation 23m and 27m catamarans have been specifically designed to cater for the changing needs of European offshore projects, Seacat said in a press release issued today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Seacat Mischief currently on sea trials and Seacat Magic preparing to join Seacat Services\u2019 operational fleet in February 2016, these 4 new catamarans, named Seacat Freedom (23m), Seacat Enterprise (27m), Seacat Liberty (23m) and Seacat Weatherly (27m), are scheduled for launch throughout 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo &#8211; Seacat Mischief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once complete, these vessels will extend Seacat Services\u2019 fleet to fifteen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite financial challenges to established offshore markets, round three projects are still set to go ahead, and these will require greater capability and flexibility from support vessels,\u201d said Ian Baylis, Managing Director, Seacat Services. \u201cOur latest order, which includes an all new design 27m vessel, will help Seacat Services prepare for the needs of these projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the combination of vessels we have available, we feel that we can provide a new versatility in transfer and supply rarely equaled in the offshore wind industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Thacker, Director, South Boats IOW, added: \u201cDespite Seacat Services\u2019 strong European presence, it has not lost sight of its commitment to the Isle of Wight community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only has it invested substantially into the local economy, it has also dedicated significant amounts of time and energy into establishing the Isle of Wight as an international renewables hub. This latest order will only help forward that cause.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seacat Services has placed an order for up to 4 new vessels with Alicat sister company South Boats IoW. The DNV-GL class-certified next generation 23m and 27m catamarans have been specifically designed to cater for the changing needs of European offshore projects, Seacat said in a press release issued today. With Seacat Mischief currently on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alicatworkboats.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}