So Sea Shepherd won the lottery, and is building a new hippy ship
Billed as an Antarctic Patrol Vessel, Sea Shepherd ordered the new ship earlier this year after winning 8.3 million euros in the postcode lotteries in the Netherlands.
“Over the next 12 months, what is now just a shell of steel works will be transformed into a custom-designed, state of the art-vessel. The new ship will be capable of achieving speeds that far exceed any of the vessels in our current fleet, and will be able to operate in extreme weather conditions.”
It seems the ship is a version of Damen’s Fast Crew Supplier design modified to run on hippy power.
On trips to the Antarctic polar region, she may bump into one of the new Damen-built 51m OPVs delivered to the South African Navy.
Of course, the South Africans have a 20mm up front and two 12.7mm’s on the port and starboard, but still.