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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2021
Applicant:
Stiesdal Offshore A/s, Give, DK;
Inventors:
Henrik Stiesdal, Odense C, DK;
Uffe Lykke Eriksen, Horsens, DK;
Assignee:
Stiesdal Offshore A/S, Give, DK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B 35/44 (2006.01); B63B 77/10 (2020.01); F03D 13/25 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B 35/44 (2013.01); B63B 77/10 (2020.01); F03D 13/25 (2016.05); B63B 2035/446 (2013.01);
Abstract
An offshore floating structure is provided including a floater with positive buoyancy and a keel with negative buoyancy, as well as active and passive suspenders connecting nodes of the keel and the floater with each other. When the keel at the offshore site is lowered by making the active suspenders longer, the passive suspenders, which have a fixed length and are held taut, causes the keel to rotate about the vertical during lowering.