Vesta

Vesta is built with a strong ice-rated steel hull to be able to operate even during severe icy winters.It is of the further developed Ylva type and was built in 1998 at Båtservice Holding in Mandal, Norway.On board there is a café on the upper deck.Vesta is named after the Roman goddess of the "domestic hearth".It is Styrsöbolaget's second ship with this name.The predecessor, which was also ice-going, was built in 1937, extended in 1976 and sold in 1995. It is now called Rex and belongs to Blidösundsbolaget in Stockholm.Vesta is 34.42 m long and 8.02 m wide.Passenger capacity is a maximum of 447 people and there are 246 seats in saloons, of which 68 are in the café on the upper deck.Seats and carpets have been renewed in October 2016. Since 2021, Vesta is powered by two Volvo Penta D16 MH engines with a combined output of 1,200 hp (882 kW).These drive an adjustable KaMeWa propeller, which gives a speed of 13.5 knots, via a co-driving gear.The main engines are equipped with catalytic converters that clean the exhaust gases.