Rolls-Royce makes further incursions into leisure marine market
By IBI Magazine/David Foxwell
Best known for its electronics, bridge equipment and propulsion machinery for commercial vessels, Rolls-Royce Marine is gaining a growing number of contracts in the superyacht market.
A notable example of this is Annaliesse, built for Liveras Yachts by Neorion Syros, which has a substantial propulsion and manoeuvring package from the company, and sister vessel Alysia. These 83.5m (274ft) yachts have a Rolls-Royce Kamewa Ulstein propulsion system from the main engine output shaft onwards. The package comprises two 480AGHC reduction gears, shafts, V brackets, two CP propellers, Tenfjord steering gear and spade rudders, plus a TT100 tunnel thruster with CP propeller and a VTAS control system with joystick.
Another superyacht, an 82m (269ft) craft under construction at Appledore shipyard, which is part of Devonport Yachts, will have a Rolls-Royce propulsion system and integrated manoeuvring control with joystick and touch screen user interface on the bridge. Two CPP54XF5/4D-B Cp propellers and complete shaftlines, bearings, separate thrust bearings and stern tubes are being supplied by Rolls-Royce, together with the gearboxes (which are from another manufacturer included in the company's scope of supply). A CanMan system based on the recently developed Rolls-Royce common control platform integrates control of the propellers and rudders.
An 87m (285ft) three-masted yacht, Maltese Falcon, which is being built in Turkey by Perini Navi, will employ twin Kamewa CPP50XF5/4D-B/F propellers and their associated control system, and a Kamewa Ulstein tunnel-type bow thruster, these being the same type of propeller supplied by Rolls-Royce for Mirabella V.
Rolls-Royce also notes that an Overmarine Mangusta 108 will be the first vessel to use the company's new Kamewa Series 3 waterjets, using two 63S3 units, the same models having also been selected to propel the newest Azimut 30.8m (101ft) Open.
The Swordsman 40 series from Transworld Yachts are good examples of smaller yachts equipped with Kamewa waterjets. Their design is inspired by classic 1960s motorcruisers, and two aluminium FF130 waterjets give the 12m (39ft) boats a top speed of 41kt.
(1 February 2006)
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