Anytime Peter Bakker of Bakker Yachting Electronics gets in touch with me, I know it\u2019ll be about a high quality design and installation. Previously it was about luxury sailing catamarans. This time though I got even more excited, as Peter\u2019s most recent project is a 19.5 m DSV (Dive Support Vessel) Jet Cat.Why so excited you may ask?<\/p>\n
These days I’m a leisure sailor, but in earlier times I was a Jet Cat Workboat Master and dive support ROV Pilot. So it’s not surprising that this Incat Crowther<\/a> designed 1900 DSV Workboat you see pictured above, built by\u00a0Legacy Marine South Africa<\/a> for Stapem Offshore<\/a>, takes me right back to my offshore commercial working days. Be it above or below the surface those professions have to be the most fun times I’ve ever had at sea. Mind you off the Beaufort scale<\/a> winds with 60 ft waves, in a Cod war, in my youthful Royal Navy steam engineering days bordered on fear, more than fun!<\/p>\n Back to the present. Anything to do with diving is all about safety and system redundancy – where systems have to be to a quality specification and to standards that ensures the safety of the vessel, vessel crew and the divers they work with. The Stapem Beluga Cat is such a beast, being the first of two built by the Legacy Marine Group, certified to American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) standards<\/a> for this class of vessel.<\/p>\n Why not take a look at this video of the Stapem Beluga, before we investigate the Victron kit onboard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\n