Vanguard Marine High seam in semi-rigid
Vanguard Marine High seam in semi-rigid
Vanguard combines its wide catalogue of materials, designs and accessories to suit the needs of each customer with custom products
Four decades of experience support the technical capacity of Vanguard's team in the design and manufacture of semi-rigid vessels. The firm of the international group Vanguard Marine offers custom products thanks to its shipyard condition and an extensive catalogue that allows unlimited combinations of length, materials, colors and accessories to meet the needs of all types of professional and recreational customers. Naval engineering, key to the quality of your projects.
The concept high seam defines an exclusive product created to the customer's custom as opposed to the usual mass manufacture. Its application requires creativity, artisan domain and access to a wide range of options in materials, colors or designs. In the world of semi-rigid vessels, making to measure also requires experience, versatility and a catalogue of accessories wide enough to cover all kinds of needs.
Vanguard offers the highest quality standards in semi-rigid design and manufacturing thanks to the experience of your craft team, its shipyard condition and a flexibility in production that allows you to adapt to the specification of any project. Its catalogue covers between 3 and 12 meters, different hull designs in fiber or aluminium, various types of floater with cover in any material (CSM, PVC and PU), intraregized and off-board engines, and a multitude of customization possibilities for both professional and rescue vessels and for recreational nautical.
Vanguard with aluminium helmet for Balearic Islands
Naval engineering is a determining factor in the production process of every vessel, a field in which the semi-rigid have their own particularities. "The naval engineer is responsible for adapting the technical solutions to the requirements of each project," explains Guillermo Gefael, manager of Gestenaval, a company responsible for the naval engineering of Vanguard for a decade. In addition to the obvious definition of a rigid hull with a perimetral floater, a semi-rigid has specific characteristics to take into account by the naval engineer in his work: "His specification includes that they have to be light, fast, offer a certain load capacity and ability to operate in quiet waters or open sea,... They are conditioners that have to be calculated for the implementation of a project."
These conditions include the high requirements associated with rescue vessels, especially those manufactured under the SOLAS certificate (acronym of Safety of Life at Sea, International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea). Vanguard has a specific range of certified SOLAS to be installed as a rescue boat or quick rescue boat on Community flag ships and operate in the most demanding environments. "Vanguard is a shipyard that takes quality very seriously," Gefael explains.
Unmanned boarding USV Victoria developed along with Ferri Industries
Custom-made embargoes
The specialization in custom-made vessels requires the design of ad hoc solutions and the consequent adaptation of the naval engineering department to respond to specific functions.
In the field of rescue boats, Vanguard offers customization elements such as the assembly of a recovery door in the float, the unique assembly point, the trailer poles, self-adrizating devices,... As an example of its capacity, Vanguard collaborated in the creation of the unmanned vessel USV Victoria of Ferri Industries, a half-rigid of 12 meters in length that in its presentation was a pioneer in Spain and the largest of its characteristics in Europe.
Each project is a challenge for the department of naval engineering, although in Gefael's opinion, the most interesting are those that present a challenge for its complexity: "I especially remember a cabinated and aluminium-hull craft made by Vanguard for a competition (to operate in the marine reserves of Balearic Islands) that had extraordinary requirements of maneuverability, ability to work in seas with waves up to four meters high and power winds six." All vessels of the international group Vanguard Marine are manufactured according to the quality control system ISO 9001: 2015 certified by LRQA.
The Vanguard vessels and all their components are made in the European Union... the Vanguard Marine team has designed and manufactured semi-rigid since 1984.
More information, in www.vanguarmarine.com
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