Windcat Workboats

Pushing energy to the max

Windcat Workboats is Europe's leading provider of specialist Crew Transfer Vessels for offshore wind power, oil and gas and other offshore projects. The unique design of the vessels results in simple, fast, safe and comfortable transfer of personnel and equipment offshore. With over 1.800.000 safe transfers completed, the vessels have proven to operate in more challenging sea conditions than competing vessels. Windcat Workboats has a fleet of 45 vessels operating and several vessels under construction.

Windcat Workboats
Trawlerkade 106
1976 CC IJmuiden
Netherlands

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Willem van der Wel - Managing Director

Location

Windcat Workboats
Trawlerkade 106
1976 CC IJmuiden
Netherlands

About

Windcat Workboats

The design of a Windcat is constantly evolving with the experience gained over the last 17 years. Windcat Workboats values the input from technicians and charterers which has led to the most practical vessel available, giving great accommodation and required facilities for the passengers. The combination of the design and specialized bow fender gives the Windcat vessels a highly effective and safe access system that has constantly outperformed other vessels in the industry.

A testament of Windcat’s dedication to reach higher safety standards and lower emission levels is the development of smart innovations to include in our vessel designs. One of these innovations is our patented Windgrip system, the Windgrip system was developed to improve safety of offshore transfers and to increase the accessibility of wind turbines. The system is wellknown throughout the industry and currently fitted on 30 operating vessels in our fleet. Another is the CarbonCube technology, developed with industry leading partners to safely use carbon composites in the superstructure of the new MK3.5 series reducing weight and increasing comfort.

Wind farm owners are looking at moving away from fossil fuels on the vessels operating on the wind farms in the near future. In order to provide a suitable solution to achieve these goals, Windcat together with CMB Technologies are developing the world’s first hydrogen driven CTV – the Hydrocat. This ground-breaking innovation will allow a reduction of up to 1.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions per day. The use of a dualfuel internal combustion engine allows for a safe and highly reliable system with built-in redundancies and safety features. With this innovation the safety and performance of the CTV will be at the same level as the vessel with conventional propulsion.

The development of the Hydrocat by Windcat and CMB technologies has been recognized by the Carbon Trust and was announced as one of the winning technologies for the OWA Access Low Emissions Vessels Competition in 2019 for making the first step to a CTV that uses green hydrogen as a fuel and thus drastically reducing the emissions produced

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