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News

T eknicraft Design’s latest offshore support catamaran made a debut at the recent Oceanology 2014 conference held at the London ExCel

Center in March. The MO1 was com- missioned by Mainprize Offshore Ltd. of Scarborough, U.K.

The 83-ft. aluminum catamaran fea- tures a new wave piercing hull shape and the vessel is fi t with Teknicraft’s signature hydrofoil support system.

MO1 was purpose built to support the offshore wind farm industry, but the vessel has multi-mission capability and can easily support divers, hydrographic surveys, and geophysical work. MO1 has deck capacity for 40 metric tons and can provide transfers for 12 passengers in safety and comfort. The vessel’s fuel capacity is more than 9,500 gallons, en- abling MO1 to deliver fuel to sites in need. The vessel can comfortably cruise at 25 knots and the Teknicraft hull de- sign provides added comfort in choppy seas. U.S. boatbuilder, All American Ma- rine, Inc., will be promoting Teknicraft

Design wind farm support catamarans in North America as the exclusive li- censed builder.

Teknicraft debuts in LondonTe deb ts in L ndo

Main Particulars:

Length (OA) .................................................. 25.3m

Length (WL) .................................................. 24.3m

Length (Loadline) .......................................... 23.3m

Beam ................................................................ 9.5m

Draft ................................................................. 2.0m

Passengers (Max) ................................................ 12

Berths ..................................................................... 4

Engines ........................2 x Caterpillar C32 ACERT

Rating ....................................... 1194 kW/2300 rpm

Propulsion ............................................ FP Propeller

Speed-max ...................................................... 30 kn

Fuel Capacity ..............................................36000 lt

Cargo ................................................................40 T

Deck Load ....................................................1.5T/m

Construction ...................Marine Grade Aluminium

Hull Type ..............Hydrofoil Supported Catamaran

Certifi cation ........MCA MGN 280(M), Cat 1(SCV)

Ops Underway @

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind

Operations began recently at MHI Ves- tas Offshore Wind A/S, a new company dedicated to offshore wind turbine busi- ness jointly established by Mitsubishi

Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Ves- tas Wind Systems A/S of Denmark. The new joint-venture company consoli- dates the offshore wind power systems operations newly separated off from

MHI and Vestas. By integrating their comprehensive technological strengths, market trustworthiness and abundant track records in offshore wind turbines,

MHI and Vestas look for MHI Vestas

Offshore Wind to become a top global player in this fi eld, which is expected to mark sharp growth going forward.

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind is ready to perform a complete roster of functions relating to offshore wind turbines: from development, design, procurement and manufacture to marketing and after-sale servicing. Initially the JV will conduct business around Vestas’ current 3MW

V112, a gear-type wind turbine, and a newly developed 8 MW V164.

Fugro Upgrades Electric ROV

Simulators

Fugro launched an important upgrade to its Electric ROV pilot training simu- lators. With the introduction of a new electric ROV control pod and suite of electric ROV specifi c components, Fu- gro’s DeepWorks simulation software now models all electric sub-systems with greater accuracy and enables fail- ure cases to be simulated on individual sensors and circuits. This enables not just a wider range of training scenarios to be conceived, but also enables new vehicle confi gurations to be assembled in a way that refl ects their true circuit diagrams for more transparent testing and validation in the simulator before the vehicle enters service.

A new overlay designer has been add- ed to the ROV simulator’s runtime tools.

This allows both scenario builders and training supervisors to quickly confi g- ure and manage overlays. Easy to use, the overlay designer displays naviga- tion and sensor information in exactly the same way as the real vehicle system.

Crucial instrumentation data such as heading, pitch and roll as well as camera tilt angle reaches the overlay through the control pod. Other simulation enhance- ments include a new garage system as used by the Saab Seaeye observation class vehicles in Fugro’s fl eet. This new tethering system allows vehicle specifi c docking and undocking training. www.fugro.com

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