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AssigneeIqip Holding B.V.
InventorsAlexander Maarten Van Der Zee, Jurgen Arjan Zijlmans, Fabian Corijn Bakker, Bram Van Den Berg, Jacob Osnabrugge
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A vessel comprises a hull and a guide for guiding a monopile. The guide is movably mounted to the hull and includes a receiving part and a closure part which is movable for creating a closed condition of the guide where the guide forms an annular body extending in a main plane and an open condition in which the guide has an opening to a space, allowing a monopile to be received in the space. A displacing device displaces the guide within the main plane. A control system controls the displacing device and such that it determines an oscillating path of a monopile relative to the hull in a direction within the main plane when the monopile and the guide are moving towards each other and the guide is in the open condition for receiving the monopile. The displacing device displaces the guide substantially synchronously with the determined oscillating path.
A vessel, comprising:
A method of inserting a monopile to be driven into a seabed into a guide for guiding the monopile, which guide is movably mounted to a hull of a vessel and provided with a receiving part and a closure part which is movable with respect to the receiving part for creating a closed condition of the guide in which closed condition the guide forms an annular body extending in a main plane and an open condition in which the guide has an opening to a space which is bordered by the receiving part, the method comprising:
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