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SOLUTION GRC43 - IMO 9609809

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Photographer:
Emmanuel.L [ View profile ]
Captured:
May 19, 2019
Location:
Valletta, Malta
Added:
May 22, 2019
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3,248 x 1,497

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Registered in Cook Is.
built in 2011.
316grt.
on marinetraffic she is listed as utility vessel,on shipspotting information she is listed as patrol vessel, yet she is tied up at the yacht marina,
I am putting her in motor yachts category.
So what exactly is she,those stripes on her hull makes her more as a form of patrol vessel. but......???
44m x 8m

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Current name:
SOLUTION
Vessel Type:
Patrol Vessel
Gross tonnage:
316 tons
Summer DWT:
70 tons
Length:
43 m
Beam:
8 m
Draught:
2.2 m

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Thanks rd77 for this additional information on the SOLUTION
Thanks and regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Hi Emmanuel, unfortunately I don't know (yet) which yacht she will be supporting (if any at all). All I know is that she is now owned by some outfit called Hercules Operations Ltd, registered on the Cayman Islands.

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These links on the SOLUTION, show her as original conceived and built, as a Coast Guard patrol vessel even armed with a gun on her bow, but now she has been converted to a yacht tender to larger super yachts,
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Emmanuel.l.(Malta)

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The SOLUTION is a yacht tender Becky, although as rd77 pointed out she was built as a patrol vessel but then was converted to her present role as a tender to larger yachts.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Following links describe the GRC 43...…
www.grc43.com/specifications/
www.oceanshaker.com/tag/grc-43/

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With a home port of Aviatu its not likely she would be patrolling the Med

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Thanks rd77, re the SOLUTION she sure looks like a patrol vessel, but as you said she has been converted to yacht support vessel, but why did she retain those stripes and the number GRC43 making her as if she is masquerading as a patrol vessel?
Do you know which is her parent super yacht she is tender to?
regards and thanks for the info.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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She was originally built by Westport of the USA on a speculative basis as the first of a new type of patrol vessel, the Global Response Cutter. Hence the number GRC43 on the hull. The project was not successful and she was sold by Westport earlier this year. I saw her at the STP yard in Palma de Mallorca a few ago, being converted to a yacht support vessel.

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