Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2023
First AiP awarded for inflatable wing sail design
The Wisamo wing sail system, first introduced by Michelin in 2021, has been awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) by classification society DNV. Wisamo is the first AiP to be awarded to such a system and has been issued based on DNV’s WAPS ST-0511 standard. A 100m2 version of the inflatable, retractable, automated sail, designed for commercial vessels and leisure craft, is now being installed on the 8,600dwt RoRo freight ferry, MN Pélican . The 155m-long vessel, built in 1999 and owned by Compagnie Maritime Nantaise, is chartered to Brittany Ferries and operates between Poole in the UK and Bilbao, Spain....