Danish wind farm support vessels, MHO Exbjerg and MHO Gurli, combine form and function with four Cummins marine propulsion engines.

Wind farm support vessels MHO Exbjerg and MHO Gurli

Form and function are the hallmarks of good design, but seldom have they been melded more effectively than with the Danish MHO-Co’ wind farm support vessels MHO Exbjerg and MHO Gurli. These 39 by 10.3-meter Incat Crowther designed vessels were launched in 2019 from the PT. Bintang Timur Samudera in Indonesia.

The familiar twin Incat Crowther hulls support a unique MHO-Co designed, three-tier superstructure mounted aft of a long forward working and cargo deck. The two vessels have been meeting remarkable success as crew support vessels for wind farms off northern Europe, with accommodation for up to eight marine crew and motions dampening seats for 24 technicians. Eight bunks are provided forward, four in each hull, for technicians to rest. These are big capable aluminum boats. There is room for a 20-foot container aft of the main deck house and five 20-foot containers on the fore deck. The forward deck provides 100 square meters of deck space and there is another 40 sqm of deck space aft.

Cummins KTA38-M marine propulsion engines pack a punch

Main engines are four Cummins KTA38-M diesels each delivering 746 kW to KaMewa S50-3/CA jets through Reintjes vLI gears. The engines are arranged one ahead of the other and slightly offset in each hull. A Cummins genset is also set in each hull. The boats are fitted with 50 kW hydraulic tunnel bow-thrusters and are DP capable.

Tankage is provided for 65,000 liters of fuel and 2500 liters of fresh water. The vessels are also fitted with motion dampening Humphree Active Ride control. There are 24 CCTV cameras, throughout each of the two vessels, capable of storing ten-days of recordings. The bridge is equipped with a complete suite of Furuno navigation aids as well as a McMurdo AIS and a Navitron autopilot.

Both vessels have Amco Veba 825-45 deck cranes capable of lifting 1,065 KG with a 10.25-meter reach. The MHO Esbjerg has recently had a Z-bridge Bring to Work (B2W) installed to ease the delivery of technicians to work on the wind turbine towers. Additional vessels for the owners, MHO& Co, are currently under construction to serve wind farms off the German, Danish, Dutch and English coasts.

Photos courtesy of MHO-Co A/S

For more information:

Paul T. Nielsen
Norsøgade 4,
6700 Esbjerg, 
Denmark
Phone: +45 53 70 46 45
Email: trine@mho-co.dk 
 
Jennifer McQuilken
Marketing Communications Global Marine
Cummins, Inc
4400 Leeds Ave. Suite 300
Charleston, SC, 29405
USA
Phone: 843 696 9534
Email: jennifer.mcquilken@cummins.com

Alan Haig-Brown
A. Haig-Brown & Assoc. Ltd.
Bangkok, Thailand
Vancouver, Canada
Canada Phone: 604 377 1577
Thai Phone: 66 (0)8 5347 6206
E-mail: alan@haig-brown.com
web: www.haigbrown.com