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The Baldakin Modular Accommodation System (BMAS) Applications
The Baldakin “Cruiser / Floating hotel”
"River cruiser" "River cruiser" "River cruiser" "River cruiser" Top section Cross section C-C Cross section B-B Cross section A-A
The BMAS is particularly suitable to equip Cruise vessels, where available space is scarce, allowing one to use the saved space to make more “shared facilities” available to the cruising guests.
One will find hereafter more details on the very promising application to sea-going Catamaran cruisers.
The BMAS is also of course very suitable for the construction of mono-hull Cruisers of a minimum width of 24’ (7.3m), i.e. based on the typical F2F BCs combination (so that the design is symetric).
One could reasonably design a motor Cruiser in the 80’ (24m) range, with one module length (i.e. 12m) F2F combination on one level (deck).
Since, probably, 8’ Twins BCs are preferred for the crew, the total number of passengers would be 18 to 36, (depending on the occupancy), representing five 8’ Twin BCs for the crew and for example four 10’ Twin BCs for the skipper and for the guests.
More interesting is the application to Riverboats, which must be, by design, long and narrow.
A typical, traditional, 200’x 24’ (i.e. 61m x 7.3m) River Cruiser, would normally have cabins for 50 passengers and 14 crew, i.e. 32 twin cabins.
Based on the BMAS, one could easily fit in the same space three times 2 levels of F2F BM combinations, i.e. for example, ten 8’ Twin and forty 10’ Twin BCs in total, housing a total of 100 passengers, i.e. 20 crew and 80 guests (based on double occupancy), i.e. double the capacity of a traditional River Cruiser of the same size!
It is indeed further expected that the crew to guest ratio of 1 to 3 in traditional cruiser could be reduced to a 1 to 4 ratio due to the easier cabin cleaning with the BMAS “Servants” (BSs).
Furthermore, there would still be ample space in front of, between, over and under the F2F modules to house very comfortable shared facilities.
This would also make a BMAS River Cruiser very suitable as a “Floating Hotel”, particularly well adapted to provide temporary accommodations on inland waterways, for example for trade fairs (as is the case already in cities on the Rhine such as Köln), emergencies, etc.
The BMAS concept can naturally be applied to larger Riverboats, such as those touring the Danube river, which have a LOA in the 350 to 400’ range (100 to 120m) and a beam of 50 to 75’ (15 to 23m), which typically accommodate a crew of 75 caring for 200 guests.
The same internal volume could accommodate again, based on the BMAS concept, at least 600 passengers, i.e. 120 crew and 480 guests, in sixty 8’ twin and two hundred forty 10’ twin BCs, based on double occupancy, and even more generous shared facilities.
The BMAS concept is of course suitable as private (sleeping) quarters for the largest vessels…
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