# Wind farm installation vessel at work **URL:** \ **Category:** Maritime Topics\ **Created:** [May 1, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381 "2019-05-01T11:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/1 "2019-05-01T11:17:05Z")
Another Wind farm installation vessel at work FYE: https://player.vimeo.com/video/282685172 ---
**Author:** ![dbeierl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/dbeierl/32/11833_2.png) [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/2 "2019-05-01T20:40:12Z")
All I see is electrons playing. Does this vessel actually exist? ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/3 "2019-05-01T21:03:17Z")
Shows up OK here.(??) Another source: [https://vimeo.com/282685172](https://vimeo.com/282685172) ---
**Author:** ![dbeierl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/dbeierl/32/11833_2.png) [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/4 "2019-05-01T21:04:05Z")
What I mean is that the clip is all special effects, no actual vessel involved. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/5 "2019-05-01T21:17:44Z")
Yes she exists and the video is of the real vessel in a real operation: [https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/AEOLUS-IMO-9612636-MMSI-245179000](https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/AEOLUS-IMO-9612636-MMSI-245179000) Here is one of her afloat projects, using DP in place of jacking up on a soft bottom location: https://player.vimeo.com/video/229838123 Correction; The first video is an animation. ---
**Author:** ![dbeierl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/dbeierl/32/11833_2.png) [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/6 "2019-05-01T21:25:16Z")
Now _that_ one is real. The other is to me obviously not. Just for a start, the rigging between the crane hook and the loads magically fades into existence as you watch. None of the loads have the slightest sway. No splashing as things enter and leave the water. Bow wave closeup is obvious fake. Etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wind-farm-installation-vessel-at-work/51381/7 "2023-06-27T11:03:59Z")
Reviving this old thread since it fits the subject. (Hope you don’t mind David): ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/f/c/fce665e255b75663f2eb84cdd1212c9515ac3a0a.jpeg) The first monopile foundation has been installed at the South Fork Wind site offshore New York, the state’s first offshore wind farm. The foundation will support the project’s offshore substation, which will also be installed in the coming days. Boskalis’s offshore installation vessel BOKAlift 2 is transporting and installing the foundations, including the one for the substation, the first US-built offshore wind substation. Source: [First Steel in Water at New York's First Offshore Wind Farm | Offshore Wind](https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/06/23/first-steel-in-water-at-new-yorks-first-offshore-wind-farm/)