Regent Appoints Lloyd’s Register “as Certification and Advisory Service for Viceroy Seagliders” 

Regent, the U.S‑based com­pa­ny devel­op­ing all-elec­tric seaglid­ers, announced this week it has appoint­ed Lloyd’s Reg­is­ter (LR) as its Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and Advi­so­ry Ser­vice for the 12 pas­sen­ger Viceroy, reports a press release.

Regent’s seaglid­ers rep­re­sent the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy in mar­itime ves­sels that great­ly reduce the time and cost of trans­port­ing peo­ple and goods between coastal des­ti­na­tions. These sea­planes are a nov­el type of mar­itime ves­sel that oper­ate a few metres above the water’s sur­face, com­bin­ing the high­er speeds of a light air­craft with the low oper­at­ing costs of a sea­far­ing craft. 

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The release says, “The nov­el hydro­foil­ing wing-in-ground (WIG) craft brings togeth­er advanced mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy from mul­ti­ple indus­tries includ­ing elec­tric propul­sion, hydro­foils, mod­ern vehi­cle con­trols and fly-by-wire sys­tems, to rev­o­lu­tionise WIG capa­bil­i­ties, pro­vid­ing wave tol­er­ance, safe oper­a­tions and pas­sen­ger com­fort.”

Ted Lester, Regen­t’s VP of Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, com­ment­ed, “LR’s cer­ti­fi­ca­tion marks sig­nif­i­cant progress in our com­pli­ance path­way toward mar­itime oper­a­tions. Their exper­tise in clas­si­fi­ca­tion and com­pli­ance ser­vices, as well as its com­mit­ment to safe­ty and advanc­ing the path to net-zero emis­sions, make it an ide­al part­ner for ensur­ing seaglid­ers meet required glob­al stan­dards now and in the future.”

Mark Dar­ley, COO of Lloyd’s Reg­is­ter, added, “Regent’s ded­i­ca­tion to safe and sus­tain­able solu­tions is pro­vid­ing the mar­itime indus­try with inno­v­a­tive zero-emis­sions pas­sen­ger ves­sel seaglid­ers that could trans­form the future of coastal trav­el.”

Tak­ing a risk-based approach in the absence of exist­ing rules and reg­u­la­tions, LR “will sup­port Regent through the mar­itime cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, includ­ing advanc­ing its design basis agree­ment (DBA) with the U.S Coast Guard and defin­ing the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion path­way for non‑U.S seaglid­ers,” con­tin­ues the release. “This process and the engi­neer­ing data derived from this part­ner­ship will help define LR rules for future WIG ves­sels, includ­ing Regen­t’s 100-pas­sen­ger Monarch seaglid­er.” 

The com­pa­ny aims to have peo­ple on board its 12-pas­sen­ger seaglid­er pro­to­type this year, with vehi­cles to mar­ket by the mid-decade.  

For more infor­ma­tion

www.regentcraft.com

https://www.lr.org/en

(Top image: Regent)

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