The history of the daughter craft
North Star bring not only operational excellence and high performance Daughter Craft to the service offering, but legacy. For decade the daughter craft fleet has developed and grown from the O&G roots to significant number of DC and Fast Rescue Craft (FRC/B) supporting the important safeguarding of offshore personnel deployed from our ERRV and Multi-Role vessels. Through this the innovation of the first ‘push-on transfers’ with the MAC1 were developed with Shell and industry operational collaboration
Rescue Boat Divisions
The fleet growth, excellence in performance and ownership has developed to in-house control, management and maintenance of our entire fleet, with support services offered to external clients too. With the Rescue Boat Services, our technicians are OEM trained, with direct access to the key supplier own factories and technical support to ensure first class service and maintenance, with maximum uptime in-field.
Offshore Wind Design
Before North Star entered the offshore wind sector, Daughter Craft operations were limited in scope, with much of their potential—particularly for safe personnel and cargo transfers—remaining unrealized.
Driven by our core values to Care, Collaborate, and Innovate, North Star has redefined the standard for Offshore Wind Daughter Craft design and operational excellence. Our commitment to safety and innovation led the charge toward a new class of vessels, purpose-built for the demands of this evolving industry.
By combining North Star’s decades of expertise in launch and recovery operations in the harsh conditions of the North Sea with Chartwell Marine’s cutting-edge naval architecture in high-performance, high-speed craft, we embarked on a collaborative mission to increase comfort, capability, and operational efficiency by over 50%.
Through extensive design collaboration, rigorous tank testing, and continuous innovation—supported by British shipbuilding and our trusted local supply chain—we proudly deliver a class-leading Daughter Craft: the North Star Chartwell Marine Monohull, available with Hybrid, Outboard, or IPS propulsion systems.
Operational excellence
Integrating the Daughter craft fleet to the SOV fleet requires experience and sound practises. North Star ensure safe working and operational excellence in the small boat skills on board, and the Launch and Recovery hardware that ensures towing booms and docking heads are considered as critical equipment within our SOV offering.
Client support workshops
Leading the Offshore Wind sector for effective, operational daughter crafts with a focus on non-sliding transfers, safe launch and recovery activities has led to the role out of multiple client and industry workshops to share, improve and educate the effective means of daughter craft operations. To best utilise the assets on-board, on-charter.
Integration to SOV
The daughter craft can become an extension of the end-to-end logistics North Star excel within. It allows flexibility to the charter, client, in means to transit the windfarm, for cargo purposes or personnel transfer and safe manning cover. The deployment of a high-performance daughter craft raises this optionality, with an average 50% increase in availability with the increased sea state of the operational profile, and assurance of safe, proficient launch and recovery hardware and processes.
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