Pilot boat ORC 120

“ORC” class High Speed Crafts are designed around the new and patented “Beak” hull design developed by PANTOCARENE Naval Architects. Chosen by the French Rescue Institution SNSM
(75 % of the fleet) and the main French Pilot Stations (St Nazaire,Bordeaux,Le Havre,Dunkerque), the BEAK hull design might be on the right way to re-write the rules of fast hulls in rough seas.

- Exeptionnal comfort in head seas with very low slamming and vertical acceleration
- Unknown speed in head seas – higher than 20 knots in 4 to 5 m
- Excelent course keeping without any tendency to broaching at high speed in high
following waves, whatever their angle with the ship,
- High accuracy and manoeuvrability along running ships whatever their speed,
- High stability at high heel angles,
- Low trim and resistance in pre-planning range,
- Low sensitiveness to loading.

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