Multipurpose Catamaran
Multipurpose Catamaran
Skarsvaag Boats
2024-2026
Patent Pending, Under development
Industrial Design, Strategic Design, Transport Design
Norwegian aquaculture is caught in a costly equation. Fish mortality is at record highs, disease and lice account for a third of all production costs, and the industry's answer is ever larger, ever more specialised vessels moving between sites, which has itself become a vector for infection and expense.
Skarsvaag Boats, building workboats on Hitra since 1967, asked us to rethink what a service vessel could be.
Named after the Anglerfish, the Seadevil, is a 25-meter multi-role catamaran built on one radical move, asymmetry. All technical spaces are gathered in the starboard hull, all accommodation in the port hull, and the wheelhouse is pushed to the side. Resulting in roughly 270 square meters of open, uninterrupted deck space, more than 50% larger than comparable vessels, with the crew overlooking all of it.
That single deck lets one vessel do the work of two or three specialised ones: delousing at 500-600 tonnes per hour, net handling, emergency slaughter, towing, ROV- and diving support. The separation of hulls separates clean from dirty and noise from rest. Meaning that the crew sleep in quiet cabins while operations can run through the night.
One Sjødjevel replaces two to three specialised vessels with a single crew, cutting delousing costs by up to 75% compared to a traditional wellboat, and cutting vessel traffic between sites, one of the industry's main infection vectors. Lower costs, lower mortality and better welfare for fish and crew alike.
Spacious private cabins isolated from noise.
The wheelhouse combined with meeting room and break area.