JANUARY 6, 2016 — The hull of the first of two innovative offshore wind industry Service Operation Vessels (SOV) arrived at Ulstein’s Ulsteinvik shipyard, Norway, January 3, from Poland.
The vessels are being built for Germany’s Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH and will be Ulstein’s first for the offshore wind industry — and the first to feature its innovative X-Stern (see earlier story).
A vessel with the X-Stern can be positioned with the stern faced towards the weather instead of the bow, leading to improved weather resistance, greater operability and reduced power and fuel consumption while on DP mode. It is a further development of Ulstein’s X-Bow.
During the coming months, the newly delivered SOV hull will be outfitted and get its final coating, before sea trials start in the late spring. Starting this summer, the vessel will work at the Gemini wind farm in the Netherlands for Siemens Wind Power Service.
Main particulars: Length 88 m, breadth 18 m, speed 13.5 knots and accommodations for 60 people.
[QUOTE=Steamer;176730]Aside from visual pollution, that wheelhouse must have been a real treat in a following breeze.
But like the old saying goes - “form follows function”[/QUOTE]
Made a trip out of the notch from Pascagoula to Tampa back in early 88. Lucky no one was killed. Absolute disaster shortening up in heavy weather approaching Tampa. . . .
[QUOTE=cmakin;176728]To be fair, the first isn’t finished yet, but yeah, pretty damn ugly. . . but, in MY humble opinion, the last vessel I sailed on beats them all. . . .
[QUOTE=cmakin;176740]Made a trip out of the notch from Pascagoula to Tampa back in early 88. Lucky no one was killed. Absolute disaster shortening up in heavy weather approaching Tampa. . . .[/QUOTE]
Belcher was one of the first companies I applied for a job when I left the oilfield in’85. I was turned down because I wasn’t an academy grad. A year or so later, I believe this tug was in the shipyard in Tampa with a thrown rod.
[QUOTE=injunear;176755]Belcher was one of the first companies I applied for a job when I left the oilfield in’85. I was turned down because I wasn’t an academy grad. A year or so later, I believe this tug was in the shipyard in Tampa with a thrown rod.[/QUOTE]
Don’t know about that. I do know that Belcher built two of them. The TAMPA and the PORT EVERGLADES. Slow speed B&W 7L67GF engine with over 15K Hp. . . .The TAMPA and her barge sunk in the deepest part of the Gulf. At the time they were built, they were the largest US built tugs. . . really dangerous attachment in the notch. . . which is one reason why the TAMPA sunk. . . . when I sailed on the EVERGLADES in 88, the only Academy people other than me were in the wheelhouse. . .
[QUOTE=z-drive;176762]…Close second is the Dace.[/QUOTE]
The Dace Reinauer is why I am not practicing law. The litigation over the delivery trip for Boston Harbor sewage barges made me realize I hate litigation and don’t wnat any part of it.
