Achievements & Innovative History
Achievements are measureable and in the case of our company personnel have been highly innovative
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Automated Mooring Systems
1996 Founder Director of Mooring Systems Ltd now part of Cavotec MSL listed on the NZ Stock Exchange.Provision of the professional naval achitecural support services that contributed to the success of the technology
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Design of large naval vessels in GRP composites
1972- Structural design of HMS Wilton and 10 MCMVs for the Royal Navy Minesweepers
3
Self Righting Design
1990 Design of self-righting SAR FRP vessel for NZ Police
4
Army Assault craft
1993 Design of 60 lightweight, nestable, Kevlar Assault boats for the NZ Army
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Dynamic Positioning Catamarans
1994 The Design and Engineering Supervsion of SeaWorker created a vessel that completed the Survey of the Cook Strait Power cable in half the projected time. These vessels provide more deck space, more deck carrying capacity, more cranage options, and superior accommodation layout than any mono-hull.
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Sea Tamer
Passive Roll Stabilisation Tanks - Starting off in 2000 with vaned baffled tanks that proved very successful the concept is progressing to automated optimised performance
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Ship Motions
Parametric roll resonance prediction - Innovative computer aided modelling that is acknowleged by the ABS reviewer as producing "remarkably similar" results to those generated by LAMPS ( Large Angle Motion Prediction Software). Polar plots have been produced for three classes of RORO passenger ferries.
Real Time Ship Motion Response - Accelerations and amplitudes- Naval Vessels, SOLAS Vessels, and Barges
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Marine Software
On-board Motion & Stability Predicting Software - StabMaster, used by the majority of NZ factory Trawlers and BargeMaster, used by Sea Tow (NZ) Ltd
Moor4U
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An innovative environmentally friendly mooring system for craft up to 50 tonnes which has maintenance periods up to 10 years http://www.moor4u.com