FFS Amaranth on «offshore wind safari» 

Text: Sveinung W. Jensen, Tellus Kommunikasjon

- We have done the towing job. It's been an extensive assignment, which began in February and was completed in June, says Steffen Syvertsen, captain on board FFS Amaranth.

The rig, Wind Pioneer, is designed to carry out maintenance and repairs of wind turbines. It runs in shuttle traffic between different offshore wind farms.

- IT HAS ITS OWN propellers, but needs assistance on longer stretches. So we tow it to the field, and then it transports itself from turbine to turbine, Syvertsen says.

Some of the service jobs have taken 5-6 hours. Then FFS Amaranth has been waiting on the field. Other times when the rig has been in the same field for one or two weeks, the tugboat has gone ashore and waited there.

- WE HAVE BEEN The Baltic Sea on a German field, in the Kattegat on several fields, around Denmark and down to Esbjerg, over to Great Britain and down to Belgium and the Netherlands. A real long trip. And occasionally the rig has been inland for mobilization and they mobilization, says Syvertsen.

The crew has of course been changed several times along the way.

- We change crew when the boat is at the quay. It has actually gone very well. Now we hope for more jobs like this, says Syvertsen.