CWind Goes to Germany with Boat-Share Scheme

CWind is making its popular boat-share scheme available to skippers in Germany. Jannes Piepgras, a skipper with more than 5 years’ experience in the North Sea, is joining CWind and taking on the new 50T designed by CWind’s sister company CTruk and currently under construction.

The vessel, which will be a DNV classed vessel of 28m length, with CTruk’s customary fuel-efficiency, modular pod system and a 14,000l refuelling capacity, is due for delivery in February next year. The modular system makes the new vessel an ideal workboat and crew transfer vessel with a payload of 50T and transfer capacity for 12 people plus crew.

Commenting on the development, Peter Jorgensen, Managing Director of CWind, said: “I am absolutely delighted that Jannes has chosen to join our boat-share scheme. The boat-share has proven very attractive in the UK and the interest we now see from German skippers is in line with our own plans of extending our services into the German offshore wind market. In Jannes we have found an excellent skipper, who has skippered a variety of vessels including 24m catamarans and has worked on wind farms in Germany, Belgium and the UK.”

Jannes Piepgras, who hails from Hallig Hooge a small island in the North Sea, is no stranger to the offshore wind industry, having worked at Thorton Bank, Thanet and Bard 1 among others. He brings with him an experienced German crew, staffed in accordance with the German Ship Crewing Regulation (SchBesV). Jannes Piepgras said: “This is an exciting time to be joining the CWind boat-share scheme, Germany has ambitious targets for offshore wind construction in the next few years, 10 gigawatts by 2020, rising to 25 gigawatts by 2030. I am looking forward to being part of this, at the helm of my own vessel, designed to meet the tougher requirements of deeper offshore wind farm construction, which will become the norm in Germany.”

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Press release, June 05, 2013; Image: ctruk