Bound4blue to equip sail on second vessel

The vessel is as yet unidentified, though its rendering bears a close resemblance to H&S Fairness, a 2,900dwt general cargo vessel.

Notably, bound4blue will be installing one larger 22m-high sail as part of this new installation, distinct from Eems Traveller’s two 17m sails side-by-side. Explaining this, co-founder and CTO David Ferrer explained that ‘interference’ between sails is something bound4blue has only recently understood thanks to a new model which debuted just after the first installation.

“There are two sails very close together, and our model was not ready at the time of this installation. Of course, if you can’t avoid that interference, you have to live with it,” he said.

The bound4blue ‘interference’ model also pointed to problems with sails on geared vessels, from cranes – such as that on Jumbo Jubilee, a heavy-lift vessel recently fitted with Econowind Ventofoil sails.

In conversation with Ship Repair Newsletter, Cristina Aleixendri Muñoz, co-founder and COO of bound4blue, praised the efforts of Norway’s Odfjell, which is due to install a bound4blue sail on one of its vessels, as part of its operational emissions reduction strategy, saying it was pointing the way forward for the wider shipping industry. “I think we are pretty aligned on the way we see shipping going. They've already reduced by more than 50% their CO₂ impact just with operational measures. You ask them, what fuel are they going to adopt? They are fuel agnostic.”