American Offshore Services (AOS), an offshore vessel operator based in Providence, Rhode Island, has taken delivery of a new crewboat built by Blount Boats in nearby Warren. Gripper is a Jones Act-compliant aluminium catamaran built to support Ørsted and Eversource’s growing portfolio of offshore wind farms in the north-eastern US:
The vessel was designed in cooperation with Northern Offshore Services (NOS) and based on the “G-class” hybride design by Grovfjord Mek. Verksted.
From the Facebook pages of Grovfjord Mek. Verksted A/S:
A sister vessel, also designed by Northern Offshore Services (NSO) has been built for the Japanese offshore wind market:
