Best RIB Pilot Boat – Aldebaran – Naiad Design (Whiskey Project Group) New Zealand-based Naiad Design (part of the Whiskey Project Group) is renowned globally for its, usually, aluminium-hulled rigid inflatable boats that are used for patrol, rescue, assault, tourist and pilotage, among other...
Best of 2023 Awards
AWARDS 2023 | Best River Ferry – Earth Clipper – One2Three Naval Architects & Wight Shipyard
Best River Ferry – Earth Clipper – One2Three Naval Architects & Wight Shipyard This brilliant boat owes its existence to a unique combination of owner, designer and builder whose vision, talents and capabilities are outstanding. The Thames Clipper service on London’s mighty river has been refined...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Small Trawler – Copious – Macduff Ship Design
Best Small Trawler – Copious – Macduff Ship Design This fine little ship will work for its experienced owners in the bleak, windy and cold waters to the north of Scotland. Macduff Ship Design knows those waters well and this very imaginative new trawler will work very safely, efficiently and...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Small Training Vessel – Master Class – Dongara Marine
Best Small Training Vessel – Master Class – Dongara Marine This was a very interesting project that illustrates the great potential for re-cycling of well designed and built aluminium vessels even when they are twenty or more years old. Given a sound vessel, a refit or rebuild, even as extensive as...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Large FiFi Boat – Strazak 28 – Remontowa Shipbuilding
Best Large FiFi Boat – Strazak 28 – Remontowa Shipbuilding Within its length of 29 metres, this ice class vessel packs in many useful features. As well as considerable fire fighting capability, it is a useful spill response vessel and a relatively powerful (45 tbp) harbour tug and well-equipped...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Aquaculture Landing Craft – Turas a ‘Bhradain – Macduff Ship Design
Best Aquaculture Landing Craft – Turas a ‘Bhradain – Macduff Ship Design As with all Macduff Ship Design vessels, this compact but ultra-versatile aquaculture work boat is impressively innovative and beautifully detailed. Practical, simple, economical and rugged, it will serve very well in the remote, cold Scottish lochs where the nation’s economically important salmon farming […]
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AWARDS 2023 | Best SAR RIB – Woolgoolga 30 – The Whiskey Project Group
Best SAR RIB – Woolgoolga 30 – The Whiskey Project Group The rapidly growing Whiskey Project Group has hit the deck running in both Australia and the United States. Its Naiad-designed and Yamba Welding-built aluminium rescue RIBs, especially, can be seen all over eastern Australia, particularly in...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Medium SAR Boat – Orinoco – Baltic Workboats
Best Medium SAR Boat – Orinoco – Baltic Workboats Over recent years Estonia-based Baltic Workboats has become globally renowned for its strong, safe, efficient, attractive and economical work, pilot SAR and patrol boats. They have been exported widely and that is a very good sign. This particularly...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Electric Cargo Vessel – Hydromover – Lita Ocean
Best Electric Cargo Vessel – Hydromover – Lita Ocean A very interesting and innovative craft, it is impressive that this electric powered aluminium catamaran was built in Singapore, rather than locally, by its Malaysian owner. It is a tribute to the capabilities and competence of Lita Ocean that it...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Medium Pusher Tug – HB Poraque – Belov Engenharia
Best Medium Pusher Tug – HB Poraque – Belov Engenharia This very interesting and versatile medium-sized inland waters pusher tug has been built as the first of a pair by a Brazilian shipyard, Belov Engenharia. The hybrid-electric-powered vessel, with a shallow draught and an impressive top speed of...