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I like to continue my Pilot Vessels series with an image of the Dutch 'Cetus'.

The 'Cetus' is one of the type SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) owned, together with similar vessels, by the Dutch Pilot Service, and stationed a 'couple' of nautical miles west off the coast of the peninsula Walcheren, Zeeland, The Netherlands.

Due to the small surface water line and computer-controlled stabilization fins, the seagoing performance has been significantly improved when compared with its predecessors. Up to a wave height to three and a half meters (eleven and a half feet), the 'Cetus' is able to carry out its work without any problems. In addition, the 26 meters (85.3 feet) long Swaths can ballasts in five minutes eighty-centimeters deeper so that vessels with a lower freeboard (mainly 'off-shore vessels') can be piloted as well.

It's my second post for today, because I can't be on Caedes tomorrow because of participating in an event that lasts till the end of the day.