Lee's Mothership

Frequent contributor leesea, always thinking commercial, found a mothership design he likes. From MarineLog.

Eidesvik Offshore ASA has, through its associate Eidesvik OCV KS, today taken delivery of the X-bowed construction vessel M/V Viking Poseidon from Ulstein Verft.

Viking Poseidon left Ulsteinvik to be fitted out with a 250-tonne offshore crane just before Christmas.

"We took her around Stadt, a very rough sea area along the Norwegian coast, and the wind reached hurricane strength," says Ulstein Verft sea trial captain and manager for the aftermarket department Frank Strandebø.

The hurricane force winds generated waves of around 12 m and the vessel showed great seakeeping qualities.

"We hardly noticed the rough sea. We really got to confirm that the Ulstein X-Bow functions according to its intentions," says Strandebø.

She needs a paint job, but otherwise a very interesting vessel. With a 250 ton crane you have all kinds of options here. Always fun to look at these types of commercial construction vessels, because there is so much utility in these platforms it makes you wonder why there weren't alternative suggestions for the MPF(F).

Specs:

It has an overall length of 130 m, breadth of 25 m and a large cargo deck area of 1,700 sq.m. Up to 105 persons can be accommodated and the vessel is equipped with two moonpools, a 250 tons active heave compensated offshore crane, ROV-hangar, diesel-electric machinery and helicopter deck.

Someone check my math, am I understanding the article right that the vessel was built for 608 million NOK? That's around $85.5 million US right? Interesting.