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OFFSHORE WIND VESSELS

Photo courtesy Scania USA

Scania Quad Power for

WindServe Odyssey

By Greg Trauthwein indServe Marine, the offshore wind division vetted the Scania network for service dealerships and distribu- of the Reinauer Group of companies, recently tors, and made sure that on the East Coast, they were able to completed construction of the purpose-built provide us with the service and parts we need.”

Wcrew transfer vessel from its SENESCO Ship- Most routine maintenance and repairs will be done by the building facility in Rhode Island, a 64.5 ft. aluminum high WindServe crew, “but if there’s an emergency and we need speed catamaran which is “typical for crew transfer vessels a spare part that we don’t have in stock, or we need a service that are operated in a Europe,” said Josh Diedrich, Managing technician to troubleshoot that’s outside of our crew’s range

Director of WindServe Marine. For power the boat features of competence, we needed to make sure we had a good ser- four Scania engines – the Scania Quad Power Solution – driv- vice network,” said Diedrich. He said Scania has set up a very ing Hamilton Jets. good network on the East Coast, a network that can not only “Based on our project requirements, we knew that we had lend technical support but access to spare parts within 12 to to provide a quad propulsion vessel for redundancy and cli- 24 hours.

ent needs,” said Diedrich. “We knew we needed high-end, high-speed engines that met our engine tier requirements, our

The Scania Quad Power Solution horsepower requirements and also had a really good power to Scania is not a new name in offshore wind power business, weight ratio.” having cut its teeth in the demanding and mature European

According to Diedrich the Scania solution checked all of offshore wind sector. The 4 x Scania DI16, 800-hp V8 engines those boxes, and more. “A big thing for us, is we want to make set up in the WindServe Odyssey are constructed of compact- sure that the parts and service network is there, and it’s going ed graphite iron (CGI) material, which according to Al Alcalá, to be there where we need it. Operating on the East Coast, we sales manager, marine, Scania U.S.A. provides both strength 44 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2021

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