Expedition Conversion Candidate
Project Courageous
220-Foot Offshore Support Vessel — Expedition Yacht Conversion
220 ft (67 m) · ABS Unrestricted Ocean · Built 1997
220-Foot Offshore Support Vessel — Expedition Yacht Conversion
220 ft (67 m) · ABS Unrestricted Ocean · Built 1997
A 145 × 46 ft (44 × 14 m) clear working deck — room for a hangar, beach club, toy garage, submersible and a garden.
ABS +A1 Maltese Cross, Loadline unrestricted-ocean service — a genuine go-anywhere commercial hull.
Bow dropdown and CP-tunnel thrusters plus twin Ulstein sterns — precise station-keeping over a dive or anchorage.
Twin Caterpillar 3516 diesels, 3,200 BHP — simple, rugged, globally supported power.
A proven ABS unrestricted-ocean supply vessel with a vast clear deck — the ideal blank canvas for a global expedition-yacht conversion.
Commercial capability today; owner-standard systems engineered in during conversion.
The Yacht Channel · Project Courageous — a 220 ft support-vessel conversion
The conversion concept — a sky lounge, owner and guest decks, an aft helideck and hangar, and a toy-and-tender garage on the great clear deck.
The proven ABS unrestricted-ocean supply vessel — the hull behind the conversion.
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| Type | Offshore supply vessel (conversion candidate) |
|---|---|
| Builder / Hull | North American Fabricators · Hull #165 |
| Built | 1997 |
| LOA / Beam / Depth | 67.06 m (220 ft) · 17.07 m (56 ft) · 5.7 m |
| Draft (loadline) | 4.88 m (16 ft) |
| Clear Deck | 44.2 m × 14.0 m — 619 m² (6,670 sq ft) |
| Deck Cargo / DWT | 1,500 LT · 2,426 LT |
| Main Engines | 2 × Caterpillar 3516 — 3,200 BHP |
| Thrusters | Bow 1,280 HP dropdown + 340 HP CP · stern 2 × Ulstein 1,600 HP |
| Speed | 14.2 kn |
| Generators | 3 × 300 kW + 1 × 105 kW |
| Classification | ABS +A1, +AMS, Loadline Unrestricted Ocean · USCG Subchapter L |
| Hull | Steel |
Principal particulars per builder and class records; to be confirmed at pre-purchase survey.
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Safe, comfortable expedition ops
Full owner-standard build
Vessel pricing is provided on application. Commercial-vessel prices move with charter and market conditions, so we do not publish them — contact Xplorer Yachts or register at XplorerYachts.com for current pricing. Conversion scope, and therefore cost, ranges from a yacht-support refit to a full global expedition yacht; a comparable new build is 36+ months.
