DAVITS & CRANES
crane. It can be mounted using a low profile base configuration or a higher profile pedestal base. It is the ideal crane for any yacht 24 metres and above with larger capacity and reach requirements. It can be mounted on any deck using a regular or rotating standpipe or pedestal base.
Remco Zeevaarder is the Sales Manager at Cramm Yachting Systems, a position he has held for the last four years. He is no stranger to the industry having joined it some 30 years ago over which period he has worked for, amongst others, Rondal. He says, “Cramm is best known for their high quality custom solutions where special requirements have to be met. We design and build cranes that fit the yacht, whereas others offer a crane around which the yacht needs to be designed. In other words, we go the extra mile and try to make life easier for our clients. Most times this means working around space constrictions.”
Since 2006, Martin Kranenburg has been the Technical Director at Van Driel B.V. in Holland and is responsible for the technical side of new build and service. He began working for the firm on the shop floor in 1992 and knows a great deal about the way lifting gear works. He tells us, “80 % of our products are custom made by us at the request of the client, so if a crane needs to fit inside a superstructure, we engineer it first in 3D to make it fit and flush with the surroundings. Workmanship to the highest quality, detail and finish are all important to us.”
GARAGE CRANES Overhead cranes, sometimes called garage cranes, can be a highly functional hoisting solution aboard a yacht. Overhead cranes generally employ one or two extendable/retractable booms that can pass through an opening in the hull of the yacht. Booms feature attached lifting points to which the tender and other items can be secured. There are, generally speaking, two different types of garage cranes: Sliding beam and Slewing beam. Sliding beam cranes are the most employed and have SWLs that range
from 500 towards 4000 kg per arm. They are often used as single arm cranes for smaller tenders or jet skis. Larger yachts tenders are often launched alongside with a set of two sliding davits. Slewing beam cranes are used to create a fully flexible tender garage layout. As these cranes are mounted to the bulkheads of the tender garage, the deck construction can be lower compared to fixed sliding beam cranes.Tenders and toys are conveniently stored in the forward garage and launched through gull-wings doors on each side. This leaves space in the lazarette for a wide beach club and gym with a generous swim platform for owner and guests to swim and relax right at the sea’s edge. Most overhead cranes are powered in one of two ways using either a hydraulic or an electric drive.
Peter Pfabe is Managing Director of Fuchs Fördertechnik GmbH based in Oststeinbek, Germany, a company he joined 33 years ago. Having started 60 years ago as a local supplier of hoists, the company is now represented globally with branches all over the world. He tells us, “Today we can look back having successfully delivered over 6,000 cranes for the marine industry. This success is possible only, because we always meet new challenges and master them with innovative solutions.”
FUCHS FUCHS designs and manufactures custom made superyacht cranes. Flexibility and a commitment to innovation, continuous development and the enhancement of technological know-how have been at the core of their success over the past 60 years with over 6000 successfully delivered crane systems in the maritime sector. FUCHS’ superyacht product line covers all kinds of tender, water toy and submarine cranes as well as rescue boat and life raft cranes, painter line booms and telescopic light masts. FUCHS’ latest innovations are a DNVGL type approved compact hook series for man riding and a DNVGL type approved self-erecting crane for life rafts and rescue boats. For more details Tel: +49 40 7 100 100 or visit
www.fuchs-cranes.de
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