Not car ferries, but with carrying capacity of 100 passengers and 100 cyclists:
I presume that the 100 Pax are riding on the 100 bikes??
100 fixed bikes, to generate the electricity needed for propulsion…
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Not a bad idea, power and seats for pax covered in one. (Pedlers at 1/2-price)
Ingenious idea!! Have you patented it??
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I was late…
One boat of the America’s Cup (NZ?) had fixed bikes to turn the big winches; a sort of coffee grinder by feet.
they were pumping hydraulic pressure which was needed for the foil controls and used by the winches but that was secondary.
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In Semarang, Indonesia in the 1960s electric supply where intermittent at best.
A local workshop was used by the Engineers on some small Norwegian tankers that was charted to Pertamina to make things because they had an ingenious lath machine.
Power was by two bikes and belts. Plenty of people available to pedle the bikes for a few thousand Rupias. When one got tired another was ready to take his place.
They just brought the sample and a paper bag full of 1000 Rupia notes with them.
I was thinking about a conventional AC boat before the foilers took over.
the bike riders have only been used for hydraulics on foilers
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TOMREFJORD VISITED ROTTERDAM
On the 2nd of November Rotterdam pilot Wim van Buuren had the privilege to pilot the Norwegian ferry “TOMREFJORD” out from Rotterdam. The ferry is brand new and was built in Turkey. On her way from Tuzla (Turkey) to Molde in Norway she made a stop in Rotterdam as mentioned in yesterdays newsletter . She is the second ferry of a series of three for this ferry company. The vessel is equipped with two azipod thrusters, one at the bow and one at the stern. She has a hybrid electrical propulsion system with batteries that can be charged overnight by a power cable from the shore. The voyage from Turkey to Norway has not been a very comfortable one… The ferry was not designed to sail long voyages at sea and due to the shape of her hull she rolls vigorous all the time with an extreme short rolling period of 5 seconds:
On the last photo; from the right to the left: Captain Mareno Tøvik. A/B Andreas Reppe and Chief officer Inge Eriksen.
Photo’s: Rotterdam Pilot Wim van Buuren
Source:Maasmond Newsclippings
FYI; She will charge batteries every trip during the 10 min. stop at both ends of the 35 min. route across the fjord from Molde to Vestnes v.v.
The charging will be automatic and contact free. The power source is a battery bank on the wharf, which will again be charged from the hydro electric power grid.
PS> There are three such ferries on this route, operating in “round-robin” fashion. Two ferry wharfs with two battery banks serves the ferries on each side of the fjord.:
Arrived Molde today 05.11.2021 at 1204 LT after a trip of 3 days from R’dam, with a short stop at Vard Langstain (3 hrs.)
Another type of Electric ferry win this year’s Dutch “Ship of the Year Award”:
A new electric car ferry for Scanlines, Denmark to be built in Turkey with Norwegian technology:
The Jadroplov electric ferry, the first large Croatian ship to transport 1,000 passengers and 156 cars without the emission of harmful gases, could sail in 2024.
New electric car ferry in Denmark:
It is not size that matter but what you leave behind where you travel.
I was very skeptical, but reading these articles has been very informative. I can see where these make perfect sense. I work on one of the more polluting ships in the world, and re-powering with diesels is a clean as we are going to get
for short trips its makes sense then add autonomous as that also makes sense for these vessels
One more in a long row of electric and hybrid ferries built in Turkey has been ordered by Torghatten Nord:
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Electrification of RoPax ferries are spreading to more countries: