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ISTANBUL AND TURKEYOPERATORS

NEW DELIVERIESAND CRAFT

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22 CLASSIC FAST FERRIES 5 / 2005

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NEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT CIVIL HYDROFOILS, HOVERCRAFT & CATAMARANS | EDITOR/PUBLISHER : TIM TIMOLEONALL ARTICLES, LAYOUT & ARTWORK PRODUCTION, EXCEPT WHERE NOTED : TIM TIMOLEON | PUBLISHED IN PDFFORMAT | WWW.CLASSICFASTFERRIES.COM | SUBMITTALS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOS, OLD AND NEW, ANDRELEVANT NEWS ITEMS ARE ENCOURAGED! | EMAIL TO : CFF @ EMAIL.DK | COPYRIGHT 2000/2005 CLASSIC FAST FERRIES.COVER PHOTO : THREE OF TEN FJELLSTRAND 38.8m CATAMARANS DELIVERED IN 1987–88 TO ISTANBUL DENIZOTOBÜSLERI PAUSE AT THE IDO TERMINAL IN BOSTANCI ON MARCH 25 THIS YEAR / JONAS STRÖMBLAD photo

The Incat 74m wavepiercing catamaran EmeraudeGB which was last leased by Sea Containers toFrench operator Emeraude Jersey Ferries andoperated between St. Malo and St. Helier fromApril 2004 to February this year has beentransferred to southern Europe. Following a refit at the Viktor Lenac yard inRijeka, Croatia and having been renamedSpeedRunner I, the vessel arrived in Greece on May9. It is expected to enter service in the second halfof this month on a seasonal route linking Piraeusand the western Cyclades with Aegean SpeedLines, a 50/50 joint venture between SeaContainers and the Eugenides Group. One dailyround trip will be operated to the islands ofSerifos, Sifnos and Milos until the end of October. Unusually, the 557 passenger 84 car vessel willnot be Greek flagged but sail under the Union flag.This has been made possible after the lifting of thecabotage restrictions by the Greek government

following the country's membership of theEuropean Union. The first 74m wavepiercer built by InternationalCatamarans, SpeedRunner 1 was launched asChristopher Columbus but renamed HoverspeedGreat Britain prior to delivery and entering servicewith Hoverspeed across the English Channel inAugust 1990. On its delivery trip from Tasmaniato the UK the catamaran won the Hales Trophyand Blue Riband by breaking an earlier record forthe fastest crossing of the North Atlantic. Another British 74m wavepiercer which has notchanged residence this time but been reinstatedon one of its former routes across the Irish Sea isSeaCat Isle of Man. Chartered from The Isle ofMan Steam Packet Company and renamed SeaExpress 1, the refurbished 500-passenger 80-carvessel was reintroduced by Irish Sea Express, arecently established company based in Liverpool,between Liverpool and Dublin on April 27.

TWO INCAT 74m WAVEPIERCERS RETURN TO SERVICE IN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE

Incat 74m wavepiercingcatamaran Speed-Runner 1 at the ViktorLenac shipyard inRijeka, Croatia lastmonth

/ NEVEN JERKOVIC photo

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A basic timetable of one daily round trip(except on Christmas Day) departingLiverpool at 0815 and Dublin at 1400 isbeing operated, with a second round tripfrom Liverpool at 1915 and Dublin atmidnight being added on certain days ofthe week during the low and shoulderseasons and daily except Tuesday duringthe peak season July–September. Thecrossing time is between 4 hours and 4hours 15 minutes. The new service, which is aimed at theleisure and business markets, will operate

Incat 74m wavepiercing catamaran Sea Express 1 berthed against an imposing backdrop at Liverpool on April 25 / DICK CLAGUE photo

year-round except January and February2006 when the catamaran is scheduled forannual overhaul. Being described by thecompany as a low cost, high quality service,said Andy Boardman, managing director ofIrish Sea Express, two days prior to theinauguration, "We are delighted to havereinstated such an important shipping route.The close links between Liverpool andDublin are now being reaffirmed with ournew connection. There are already low cost airlines flyingfrom Liverpool to Dublin, but the ease-of-

use factor you experience with Irish SeaExpress can't be beaten". Adult one way ticket fares start at £20and vehicles up to 5.5m + driver at £105.A limited availability same day return isoffered for £35. Sea Express 1 was originally delivered asHoverspeed France and introduced onHoverspeed's cross-Channel Dover–Calaisservice in 1991. It has since carried fourdifferent names and seen service on anumber of routes including in Italy, acrossthe Irish Sea and in Scandinavia. n

Former SeaCat Isle ofMan reenteredservice as SeaExpress 1 across theIrish Sea betweenLiverpool and Dublinon April 27

/ IAN COLLARD photo


A 50m monohull acquired by Italian fastferry operator SNAV from MarinteknikShipbuilders in Singapore, Snav Orion,arrived in Napoli as deck cargo at thebeginning of May. From May 28 to September 11 onedaily round trip by the new 700-seat 38-knot vessel will be operated betweenVulcano, Lipari, Salina, Panarea andStromboli in the Eolie Islands and Napoli,leaving Vulcano at 0710 and arriving atNapoli's Mergellina terminal 5 hours and55 minutes later. The return trip departsMergellina at 1430 and arrives back in theEolie Islands (Lipari) at 2030. In addition to its route network in theBay of Naples and Thyrrennian Sea, this

season SNAV will be present on fourcross-Adriatic routes, three of which willbe served by vehicle/passenger cata-marans. Two routes link Ancona and Split andZadar in Croatia. The Ancona–Split routewill be operated from June 11 by AustalShips Auto Express 82 Croazia Jet. Built in1996, the vessel can accomodate 650passengers and 156 cars. One daily roundtrip is scheduled to September 18, leavingAncona at 1100 and returning from Splitat 1700. For the Ancona–Zadar route the 450passenger 80 car Incat 74m wavepiercerPescara Jet has been renamed Zara Jet andwill be operating one daily return service

from June 25 to September 4, leavingZadar at 1130 on Tuesday–Friday and1000 on Saturday–Monday and goingback from Ancona at 1600 and 1445respectively. An Incat 86m wavepiercer, Pescara Jet,previously named Sardinia Jet, will operatebetween Split and the island of Hvar andPescara further down the Italian coast.This route also starts up on June 25 andcarries on until September 11. The once aday return service leaves Split at 0800,Hvar at 0930, arrives in Pescara at 1245and returns at 1445 and arrives back inSplit at 1930. Finally, further south still SNAV isallocating its Kværner Fjellstrand Flying Cat40m catamaran Snav Aquila to theBrindisi–Corfu–Paxos, Greece route. Lastyear the vessel operated in the northAdriatic between Ancona and Civitanovaand the Croatian ports of Zadar, Sibenikand Mali Losinj. One daily round trip will be operated bythe 330-seat Snav Aquila from July 9–September 4, departing Brindisi at 1030local time and arriving in Corfu at 1500and Paxos at 1600 local time. The returnservice leaves Paxos at 1630 and Corfuone hour later with the catamaran arrivingback in Brindisi at 2100. Snav Aquila was launched ahead of orderin 1992 and as Søløven II was brieflyoperated in Denmark between Kalund-borg and Århus at the beginning of 1993.In May of that year it was transferred tothe Copenhagen–Malmö route havingbeen acquired by Danish state-ownedoperator DSØ and renamed Sælen. It wassold to SNAV in 2002. n

R I G H T : MarinteknikShipbuilders in Singapore

has delivered a 50mmonohull to Italian

operator SNAV/ MARINTEKNIK SHIP-

BUILDERS photo

Flying Cat 40m catamaran Snav Aquila will be operating between Italy and Greece thissummer / ALEKSI LINDSTRÖM photo

SNAV SUMMER SERVICES

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Later this month Greek operatorDodekanisos Naftiliaki will take delivery ofa second SeaLord 40 passenger/vehiclecatamaran, Dodekanisos Pride, fromBåtservice Mandal in Norway. Dodekanisos Speedways, as theoperation is being marketed, was formedin 1999 and introduced its first SeaLord40, Dodekanisos Express, on routes in theDodecanese archipelago in April thefollowing year. While sharing the same length overall of40.05m and beam of 11.46m, the twocraft are not identical. Apart from the

visual differences exteriorwise such as arestyled superstructure, Dodekanisos Pridecarries fewer passengers and more cars,280 and 9 respectively, compared toDodekanisos Express which seats 341passengers and takes 6 cars. The mainengines are not the same either; the newvessel is fitted with four MTU 16V 2000s,two in each hull, as opposed to MTU 12V2000 M70s in Dodekanisos Express. Bothcatamarans have a service speed of 33knots. The first test run with Dodekanisos Pridewill be carried out on May 10, with the

official handing over to the owner beingscheduled for May 18. In addition to the Greek craft, anothertwo SeaLord 40 catamarans, for acustomer in Iran, have been built at theBåtservice Mandal yard in recent years.Also, since 1990 the Båtservice group ofcompanies has delivered a number ofother SeaLord designs, mainly to domesticoperators, as well as a Westamaran 4200.Specializing in aluminum craft, also beingbuilt are naval and coast guard vessels,patrol boats, search & rescue vessels anddive boats. n

BÅTSERVICE DELIVERS SECOND SEALORD 4O TO GREECE

A B O V E : Thenew SeaLord 40

catamaran forDodekanisos

Naftiliaki,Dodekanisos Pride,

at the BåtserviceMandal yard earlier

this month/ BÅTSERVICE

MANDAL photo

The SeaLord 40delivered to the sameoperator five years ago,Dodekanisos Express,about to depart for oneof the islands in theDodecanesearchipelago/ GREECEFINIKUNDAphoto


MIXED-TRAFFIC CARBON FIBRE CATAMARAN FOR TFDSA 23m carbon fibre catamaran orderedlast year by Troms Fylkes D/S in Tromsøin northern Norway was recentlylaunched at the Brødrene Aa shipyard inHyen and is currently undergoing trials onthe Hyefjord. The catamaran, Kvænangen,is the sixth and largest commercial vesselof carbon fibre sandwich construct built todate by Brødrene Aa. During initial trials Kvænangen reached aspeed of 35.5 knots, however, TFDS isexpected to operate the mixed-purposecatamaran at a normal service speed of 25knots, or 30 knots when the vessel isbeing used for sick and emergencytransports. An ambulance can be carriedon aft deck and the catamaran also has afully-equipped emergency room. In its roleas a fast ferry Kvænangen carries 50passengers and in addition the vesselfeatures a cargo room capable of holding15 Euro pallets. Earlier this year TFDS took delivery oftwo 350-seat Fjellstrand FlyingCat 46catamarans which have replaced a Flying

Cat 40m and Båtservice SeaLord 38 cata-maran on the Tromsø–Finnsnes–Harstadroute. In addition to these, the company's fastferry fleet currently includes one 24m and

one 30m catamaran delivered by OmaBaatbyggeri in 1999. A CIRR 105Psurface effect ship built in 1990 was soldin Egypt at the beginning of 2005. n

The 23m carbon fibre catamaran built by Brødrene Aa for TFDS, Kvænangen, on pre-delivery trials in the Hyefjord / BRØDRENE AA photo

Norwegian operator HSD has sold one of its pair of MM 24 PC catamarans delivered in 1994 byHolen Mekaniske Verksted, Baronessa, to a company in South Korea for a reported NOK 1.1million. The vessel was shipped from Bergen to Seoul on May 2 and is scheduled to arrive at

its destination in mid-June. / ERIK ASK photo

HSD SELLS CATAMARAN IN KOREA


FOILMASTER FESTA IN MESSINA

The Rodriquez shipyard in Messina, Sicily isalmost looking it old self these days as far asthe number of hydrofoils on the premisesgoes. With five Foilmasters scheduled fordelivery during 2005, another early nextyear and two more being on order, currenthydrofoil productivity is the highest since1989–90 when a total of 11 units werelaunched – three of which, admittedly, inanother yard in Malta. Seen in the view above taken last monthare Siremar's Antioco and Calypso, the yet tobe named unit for Caremar nearingcompletion and the original Foilmaster,Tiziano, delivered to Siremar in 1994.Behind the latter, in the roof-less shed, hidesanother Foilmaster for Siremar.

/ ENZO ANNUARIO photo

The above and right photos showCalypso at Messina on April 28

during trials. Since the saloons onthe vessel had not yet been

furnished at this point, simulatingthe weight of passengers were

drums filled with water. Note stairs and folding grille at

rear (photo at right).

/ ANTONIO DONATO photo, both


ISTANBULAND TURKEYO P E R A T O R S

CONTINENTSW H E R E

M E E T

The Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara hitherto went unsurveyed byCLASSIC FAST FERRIES, which is remarkable when considering therelatively big concentration of fast ferries in this area. Admittedly, theoldest craft currently in service were built in 1987 and so may not befalling into the classic category. On the other hand, with the rapidchanges in society around us, including the fast ferry industry, designsof some twenty years ago, while certainly not out-dated, tend to belooked upon as standards or old even. But some of the more classic catamarans, at least to CFF

standards, are to be found as well as we move south in Turkey.JONAS STRÖMBLAD photo


stanbul is an international city if there ever was one and although not the capital ofTurkey, a big metropolis at that with apopulation of nearly eleven million people.Divided into two by the Bosphorus, the stretchof water linking the Black Sea to the north andthe Sea of Marmara and Aegean andMediterranean to the south, one half of the citylies in Europe and the other in Asia. Inaddition, the city's structure is such that on theEuropean side are the business and commercialdistricts while on the Asian side are mostly

the main deck saloon and 123 in the upperdeck saloon, the owner opted for differentpower installment. Five of the catamarans thuswere equipped with a pair of MTU 16V 396TB83 diesels each rated at 1,510kW at 1,940and driving a Lips fixed pitch propeller giving afull load service speed of 32 knots. The otherfive were fitted with twin MTU 12V 396TB63s each rated at 1,000kW at 1,800 rpmlikewise driving a Lips fpp, giving a full loadcruising speed of 25 knots. In a recentrevitalizing program the original engines have

apartment buildings and dormitory suburbs.This can only mean one thing – people in hugenumbers move between the two sides eachday, namely commuters going from the east tothe west bank in the morning and in thereverse direction in the afternoon causingenormous road congestions. Looking to the future and realizing that theconventional ferries along with the BosphorusBridge – plus a second one which was thenunder construction – would sooner or laterbecome inadequate, in 1986 the IstanbulMetropolitan Municipality placed an order withNorwegian fast ferry builder Fjellstrand for tencatamarans of the yard's 38.8m design, the firstunit of which had been completed and shippedthe year before to an operator in the People'sRepublic of China. Although these ten craftwould far from remove the pressure on theroads, the shortest route from A to B often isover water – so why not use it! While all ten Turkish craft would be ident-ically laid out seating 449 passengers, 326 in

now all been replaced with new MTU diesels. Interestingly, almost simultaneously with theFjellstrand order being confirmed in 1986, aFinnish marine design company, MXAConsulting, announced it was to deliver ten450-seat catamarans of an entirely new design,to be built in Denmark, to Istanbul. Thishowever never happened.

Caka Bey (left) was the first in the batch of ten 38.8m catamarans for IDO to be completed byFjellstrand, in February 1987. The charming vessel at right wasn't built last week either

/ JONAS STRÖMBLAD photo

Nusret Bey enteredservice in 1988

/ JONAS STRÖMBLADphoto


Another project which did, at least half-way,was the arrival in Istanbul that same year of theprototype Jetcat JC–F1 catamaran, Mavi Halic,built by Marinteknik Verkstads in Sweden. Thefirst high-speed catamaran designed and builtby the yard, the 30m 215-seat vessel had beenlaunched six years earlier, very fittingly namedNumber One, but had seen only limited revenueservice since. What was particularly uniqueabout the design was its symmetrical hullswhich were detachable/interchangeable andalso it was among the first commercialcatamarans to be fitted with waterjetpropulsion. At the time of being acquired for operationin Turkey, the Jetcat was laid up in Londonfrom where it was taken to Istanbul under itsown power in an eventful fourteen days byway of France, Spain, Portugal, Mallorca,Sardinia, Sicily and Greece. The Turkish servicenever got underway however and thecatamaran was subsequently taken back toGreece for repairs following which it enteredservice in Italy. Having since been operated inthe Balearic Islands for a number of years, thevessel is now back in Turkish/Greek waters.

The first two38.8m vessels for Istanbul Deniz Otobüsleri,IDO, Caka Bey and Umur Bey, were launched atthe Fjellstrand yard in February and April 1987and entered service in June on an 8 nauticalmile route between Bostanci, a suburb on the

One of the five 25-knot 38.8m vessels, Ulubatli Hasan, on theEuropean side of Istanbul/ JONAS STRÖMBLAD photo

Asian east bank, and Kabatas in centralIstanbul. With the remaining eight craft beingdelivered over the next fifteen months,frequency on the original service was increasedand more routes were introduced andterminals built. But traffic continued to grow, and four morefast ferries were added during 1994–96.These, two monohulls and two catamarans, didnot come from Norway but were built inWestern Australia by Austal Ships. With theironly 155-passenger capacity, the pair of single-deck 30m monohulls, Aksemseddin and ErtugrulGazi, are primarily used during off-peakperiods and on a short 3 nautical mile routebetween Kadiköy and Eminönü. The catamarans, Piyale Pasa and Sinan Pasa,are high-capacity twin-deck 40m vessels with450 seats, 325 of which on the main deck and125 in the upper deck saloon. The mainengines are a pair of MTU 16V 396 TE74Ldiesels developing 1,980kW at 1,940 rpmgiving a full load service speed of 34.5 knots.Contrary to IDO's 38.8m vessels, the Austalmonohulls and catamarans are waterjet-propelled. Already the following year, by the end of1997, the company's fleet had increased byeight to twenty-two vessels, two of which wereAuto Express 60 vehicle/passengercatamarans, Cezayirli Hasan Pasa and TurgutReis I, likewise built by Austal and introducedon longer routes across the Sea of Marmara.

I D O - A S U C C E S S S T O R YI D O - A S U C C E S S S T O R Y


Barbaros HayreddinPasa is one of three

Flying Cat 35mvessels built in

Turkey by PendikTersanesi


The six that were not was a repeat orderwith Kværner Fjellstrand, as the Norwegianyard was then known, only this time for thenew Flying Cat 35m design. Basically ashortened version of the well-known FlyingCat 40m catamaran, the IDO 35m craft arefitted out for between 350 up to as many as400 passengers and have four MTU 12V 183TE72 diesels, two in each hull, rated at610kW at 2,100 rpm driving Servogear VD820 controllable pitch propellers. The first,Kaptan Pasa, was delivered in February 1997,followed by Seydi Ali Reis I, Oruc Reis, Piri ReisII and Hizir Reis III during March–September.The final, Temel Reis II, was built locally underlicense by Pendik Tersanesi. In May and November 1998 two largerAustal car/passenger catamarans, AutoExpress 86 Adnan Menderes and Turgut Özal,were delivered and entered service betweenIstanbul's Yenikapi district and Bandirma inthe southern part of the Sea of Marmara. Two years on Fjellstrand was again chosenas a further pair of 35m catamarans, BarbarosHayreddin Pasa and Sokullu Mehmed Pasa,were completed by the Pendik shipyard inAugust and September 2000. IDO currently operates a vast route net-work across the Bosphorus and the Sea ofMarmara with its 22 passenger catamaransand monohulls and 4 vechicle/passengercatamarans. Some of the passenger-onlyservices are seasonal while others areoperated only a few times a day or not at allon weekends.

In south-western Turkey another company,Yesil Marmaris, operates a seasonalinternational service between Marmaris andthe Greek Dodecanese island of Rhodes. Founded in 1962, the company pioneeredthe tourism and yachting industry in this partof Turkey and currently owns twocatamarans, one of which, Aegean Jet, is theMarinteknik JC-F1 mentioned above. Theother, Marmaris Express, is a 38m 360-seatcatamaran designed by Crowther Multihulls

In the mid-90s Austal Ships in Western Australia was chosen as supplier of two 450-seat 40m catamarans,Piyale Pasa and Sinan Pasa (pictured) / JONAS STRÖMBLAD photo

R H O D E S A N D C Y P R U S S E R V I C E SR H O D E S A N D C Y P R U S S E R V I C E S


and built in Singapore by Aluminium Craft(88) in 1995 and originally delivered to a anoperator in the PRC. One daily round trip is timetabled fromearly May to late October leaving Marmarisat 0900 and Rhodes at 1600, however,additional services are operated from time totime when required. The scheduled trip timeis between 50 and 65 minutes depending oncraft; the service speed of Aegean Jet being afew knots below that of Marmaris Express. Anadult one way or same-day return ticket is€40, and an open return is €70 includingTurkish and Greek port taxes (prices subjectto change). In addition to Yesil Marmaris at least oneother operator is believed to maintain ahydrofoil service between the Dodecanesesand Turkey during the summer months.

Moving east, a number of catamarans arejointly operated by Fergün Shipping andAkgünler Shipping between Alanya andTasucu on Turkey's Mediterranean coast andGirne in North Cyprus. The Tasucu service isoperated year round whereas the Alanyaroute is operated during the peak season andon certain days of the week only. Scheduledjourney times are 2 hours for Girne–Tasucuand 3 hours 30 minutes for Girne–Alanya. In 2003 a third company, Antalya FastFerry Transportation, operated a leased 320-seat catamaran built in France by IrisCatamarans on a considerably longer routefrom Girne to Antalya via Alanya, taking inthe region of 4 hours 15 minutes.

, based in Girne,introduced a conventional ferry service in thearea in 1986 and added its first catamaran,Fergün Express, six years later. A Westa-maran 86, this was built by WestermoenHydrofoil in Mandal, Norway in 1974 andoriginally entered service with domesticoperator Haugesund D/S as Storesund.Having since changed hands and beingrenamed twice, the catamaran remained withNorwegian operators until sold in Cyprus in1992. These days the 195-seat vessel isoperated at medium-speed; normally around20–22 knots.

F E R G Ü N S H I P P I N GF E R G Ü N S H I P P I N G

The first Jetcat catamaranlaunched by MarinteknikVerkstads in Sweden, in1980, is owned by Yesil

Marmaris since someyears and as Aegean Jet

operates betweenMarmaris in south-

western Turkey andRhodes in Greece

/ PIETER INPIJN photo

L E F T : Designed by Crowther Multihulls andbuilt in Singapore by Aluminium Craft (88) in 1995,Marmaris Express is first-choice vessel on Yesil'sseasonal Marmaris–Rhodes service/ YESIL MARMARIS photo


Not for those easilythrown off theirbalance...Built in Sweden byMarinteknik Verkstadsin 1992, 34 CPVAkgünler I conquers thechoppy sea betweenCyprus and the southcoast of Turkey

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waterjets had been removed and sold andreplaced by a conventional propulsionpackage. As a consequence of the troubles inSlovenia and Croatia in the early 90s, ferryservices were terminated during 1991–93and the catamaran was sold to Fergün. The other Westamaran in the company'sfleet, W95 Fergün Express III, was purchasedin 1996 from French operator EmeraudeLines which had operated the vessel betweenFrance and the Channel Islands since 1983.The catamaran seats 250 passengers and hasa service speed of 29 knots. The company's fourth catamaran is also

Two more Westamaran designs wereacquired by Fergün from other operators inthe following years. Perhaps the mostinteresting is Prince of Girne, a W100 carrying250 passengers. One of a trio originally fittedwith twin gas turbines and waterjets, the30m catamaran was launched by Westa-marin, as the Mandal yard had then beenrenamed, in 1981 as Gimle Bay but did notsee commercial service until 1986 when itwas acquired by a Yugoslavian company and,renamed Porec, introduced in the northAdriatic. Prior to this the original machinery and

Westamaran 88Akgünler II and theformer 34m crewboatEmeraude Express –apparantly also namedFergün Express II – areoperated between Girnein North Cyprus andTurkey's Mediterraneancoast by AkgünlerShipping and FergünShipping in a jointarrangement/ JONAS STRÖMBLADphoto

Originally fitted with twingas turbines and

waterjets, Fergün'sWestamaran 100 Prince

of Girne hits the wavesbetween Girne and

Tasucu/ JONAS STRÖMBLAD

photo


interesting. Delivered in 1986 by Marin-teknik Verkstads in Sweden to GroupeChambon, based in France, the 34 CCBwaterjet-powered catamaran, EmeraudeExpress, was originally used as a crewboat byCompagnie des Moyens de Surface, SURF,transporting personell between Doula in theCameroons and Elf's Emeraude oil field. Assuch the 243-seat craft had a full load cruisingspeed of a remarkable 40 knots, however,Fergün operates the catamaran at a moreeconomical 30–32 knots. In 1990 Emeraude Express was transferredto Guadeloupe, having been leased byCaribbean Express as a regular fast ferry. By1996 the catamaran was back with Marin-teknik and following a short spell withEmeraude Lines in 1998 was later acquiredby Fergün and introduced between NorthCyprus and Turkey.

, likewiseheadquatered in Girne, currently has twocatamarans that it operates alongsideFergün's craft. Akgünler I is a Marinteknik Verkstads 34CPV also with a past in the Caribbean.Originally delivered to Antilles Trans Express,also part of Groupe Chambon, it enteredservice in Guadeloupe in 1992 as Antilles

Express. It was transferred to anothercompany within the Chambon group,l'Express du Senegal, six years later. The company's other catamaran, AkgünlerII, is a 180-seat Westamaran 88 built in1981, as Midhordland, for Norwegianoperator Hardanger Sunnhordlandske D/S.Having been leased to a Danish and aSwedish operator in 1989 and 1990, theW88 was acquired by that same Danishoperator, Pilen, in 1994 and, renamedDelfinen, entered service on the company'sCopenhagen–Malmö route. Pilen closed down in 2000 but it was notuntil 2002 that the catamaran was sold toAkgünler Shipping. n

A K G Ü N L E R S H I P P I N GA K G Ü N L E R S H I P P I N G

Westamaran 95Fergün Express IIIwas acquired fromEmeraude Lines inFrance nine years

ago/ FERGÜN SHIPPING

photo

W88 Akgünler IIagainst a rather more

dramatic scenery thanthat of its previous

operating area insouthern Scandinavia



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ISTANBUL SCRAP BOOK

T O P : Fast ferry line-up at the Bostanci terminal in March. On the far left are the pair of Austal Ships 30m monohulls that enteredservice with the operator in 1994, followed by Fjellstrand 38.8m catamarans Uluc Ali Reis, delivered in 1988, Caka Bey from the

previous year and Hezarfen Celebi, also delivered in 1988. C E N T E R : Cavli Bey in a romantic Bosphorus setting. The last of theten 38.8m vessels for IDO, the building of this was subcontracted to another Norwegian yard, Skaalurens Skibsbyggeri.

B O T T O M : Flying Cat 35m Piri Reis is one of five built in Norway; another three were built locally for IDO._______________________________________

ALL PHOTOS IN ARTICLE MARKED JONAS STRÖMBLAD WERE TAKEN IN MARCH 2005.


A B O V E : The firstFlying Cat 35m for IDO,

Kaptan Pasa, wasdelivered by Kværner

Fjellstrand in February1997


L E F T : Four vehicle/passenger catamaransbuilt in Australia by AustalShips are operated onlonger routes across theSea of Marmara. AutoExpress 86 Turgut Özalwas delivered in 1998/ IDO photo

R I G H T : Likewisefrom Austal Ships is Sinan

Pasa, one of two 40mcatamarans delivered bythe yard at year's end in

1996/ IDO photo


CLASSICSHOT

It's 40 years ago this month thatDanish and Swedish state-owned ferrycompanies DSØ and SRÖ took deliveryof their first hydrofoil. Built byWestermoen Hydrofoil in Mandal,Norway under license to Supramar'sdesign, the PT.50, Flyvefisken, enteredservice across the Øresund betweenCopenhagen and Malmö at the end ofMay 1965. Prior to this another operator hadintroduced a pair of PT.20 hydrofoils,likewise built by Westermoen, on theroute in 1963. The top photo shows Flyvefisken asbuilt. It later had some modificationsdone to it, including the angle of thewheelhouse windows as is evidencedby the picture at left. A second PT.50, Svalan, built inSicily by Rodriquez joined Flyvefiskenin July 1965, and two more PT.50s plustwo RHS 140s from that same builderwould be added in the coming years.But that's a whole other story. Flyvefisken was retired in 1984 andsubsequently scrapped – as was thecross-Øresund fast ferry servicealtogether in 2002.

TOMAS JOHANNESSON photo

DSØ/SRÖ photo

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