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Ulysses yacht
Ulysses yacht






ulysses yacht

The rules are much stricter here it’s a totally different league!”Īnd the journey continues. We had to keep in mind that they’d carry high value toys and tender boats. “These cranes weren’t designed for lifting crab fishing pots. Wolfgang spent over a week installing the cranes supporting our long-term Norwegian partner Bergen Hydraulic. This operation takes three times as long as a normal service job. Even the cranes need to be handed over with a shiny high-polish finish after installation.” You’re only allowed to enter in protective shoes and have to take good care of the wooden floors, and leaving any scratches or oil spills behind is of course out of the question. “Unlike working on oil rigs, or fishing boats, installing a crane on a glossy yacht is a completely different story.

ulysses yacht

“It rather feels like you’re a bull in a china shop”, explains Wolfgang Knauseder, one of our experienced PALFINGER Service Engineers. Servicing a world class superyacht isn’t exactly a walk in the park, either. Instead of the former PK 90002 M extension booms installed on the first yacht, this time four PK 150002 M were mounted in order to take care of launching smaller tender boats.

ulysses yacht

The unique 21-metre day-cruising tender requires two of our biggest heavy-duty foldable knuckle cranes (PFM 4500) with a capacity of up to 25 tonnes each. Our sales, design, service and project management experts at PALFINGER rose to these challenges and delivered the optimal solution according to these demands. When equipping a yacht, the biggest venture is always dealing with space restrictions and special requirements. It was designed to carry 66 people, providing them with high-class features such as a helicopter landing pad, a helicopter hangar and a swimming pool.

ulysses yacht

Just like the first one, the second yacht was built at the Kleven shipyard in Norway. 107 metre Kleven explorer yacht Ulysses ulysses yacht owner ULYSSES: 116M Explorer SUPERYACHT In ulysses yacht owner 116m Expedition Superyacht Ulysses. The prestigious project continued with providing the second, 116-metre long megayacht with an additional set of eight cranes. In 2016, we announced that we had supplied our first superyacht, the 107-metre-long Ulysses, with eight PALFINGER cranes. Anchor and mooring is carried out using a Rauma Brattvaag AC-electric deck gear outfit from Rolls-Royce.One quite delicate project in PALFINGER’s history was equipping the Ulysses, one of the world’s largest dedicated luxury explorer yachts, with our marine cranes. Steering is enabled by two Beker FKSR flap rudders, each with a surface area of 16.4m² and operated by Porsgrunn electro hydraulic rotary vane steering gear, giving a 65° angle each side. All are Lips type CT 275 transverse units, rated at 2,400kW with a 2.75m propeller. Manoeuvring is assisted by three bow thrusters and one stern thruster. Electricity at 6.6V is generated by Leroy Somer alternators via a Semco Maritime switchboard.Įmergency power supplies are provided by a Sisu Diesel DSJGK genset based on a Cummins V12 KTA38-G3 diesel engine and a Newage Stamford 634 K2 alternator. These four 3,100kVA units supply power at sea, however, there are also three 1,520kW gensets based on MaK 8M20 engines running at 1,000rpm. This gearbox is in turn connected by shafts to a 5.1m-diameter Lips type 4CI6 CP propeller with four high-skew blades.Įach gearbox also drives two shaft alternators at 1,500rpm. These engine pairs are linked to a gearbox, which reduces speed to 144.4rpm. Each nine-cylinder 430mm-bore model delivers 7,800kW at 500rpm, giving a total of 31,200kW. The power is provided by four MaK M43 medium-speed diesel engines arranged in pairs. The Ulysses has a service speed of 22 knots at 85% maximum continuous rating. There is also a Debeg 4400B DGPS receiver, electromagnetic log, Atlas Dolog and echograph, weatherfax and gyro The Ship Control Centre (SCC) uses an ECDIS (electronic chart display and information system), as well as automatic route planning and radar-based automatic safety systems. Facilities include Radarpilot and Multipilot systems and a Chartpilot and Conningpilot station. The wheelhouse on Deck 10 incorporates an STN Atlas Marine navigation and ship control system. The main trailer deck (3) has 1,402 lane metre stowage space, while the upper trailer deck (5) has 1,341m, the top trailer deck (7) 988m and the lower trailer deck provides 345m of space. The vehicle capacity is approximately 4, 076 lane metres over four fixed decks and one hoistable deck. The Ulysses can transport a combination of over 1,340 cars or 240 articulated trucks and trailers. External curved ramps are located fore and aft on the port side to allow cars and vans to drive between the upper and top trailer decks. The ro-ro freight stowage is arranged on four decks.








Ulysses yacht