EuroTech’s FastWater™ 55
Wave Piercer PowerCat was designed to offer a long range live-a-board motor cruiser
with high stability both when under way and at anchor, a soft ride in a seaway, shallow
draft with full propeller protection, and home like accommodations. The streamlined
pilothouse with Portuguese bridge offers a climate controlled helm station as well as
additional living space.
To achieve the desired qualities the FastWater™ 55
Wave Piercer PowerCat was developed so that it maintains all of the living spaces on
or above the main deck with only machinery and tanks in the hulls. This
configuration allows the individual hulls to be narrower offering improved speed and
motion, while reducing overall weight. It also provides for improved isolation of noise,
heat, odors and vibrations, typically experienced with vessels that share living and
mechanical spaces. Additionally the hulls can be outfitted with larger than usual
tank capacities and the weight of these heavy items can be kept low and concentrated
amidships. These features when combined with the generous overall beam result in a lower
and more centralized center of gravity, yielding better ultimate stability and reduced
pitching in a seaway.
The design of the FastWater™ 55
Wave Piercer PowerCat incorporates semi–displacement wave piercing hulls that
deliver unparalleled performance and sea kindliness at both low and higher speeds.
The propellers and rudders are protected through the use of shallow tunnels and protective
skegs while the underside of the bridge deck is v–shaped in order to minimize impact
with waves. Powered with twin 370hp diesels, the FastWater™ 55 will
be a breeze to handle with the standard electronic shift/throttles engine controls and bow
thruster.
The hull and deck of the FastWater™ 55
Wave Piercer PowerCat have been designed for strength and lightweight utilizing
EuroTech’s FastForm™ computer aided solid sheet aluminum
construction technique, Alustar™ 5059 alloy and CeRam–Kote™
protective coating. The internal structure consists of aluminum longitudinal stringers and
aluminum ring frames with honeycomb–cored fiberglass center sectioned
bulkheads. The entire hull and deck are insulated for thermal and acoustic
considerations. The interior structural soles and bulkheads are of honeycomb cored
fiberglass sandwich construction and the interior joiner work is a combination of
lightweight wood veneered panels with hardwood trim. This hybrid method of
construction offers light weight, with high strength, and when combined with
EuroTech’s SemTech™ (systems, equipment & materials)
advanced outfitting technology provides a seaworthy vessel that is truly easy to maintain
and operate.
