Transcription of The largest anchors ever - Vryhof
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Anchounter 42 April2007A MEETINGGROUND FORANCHORAND MOORINGNEWSPUBLISHEDBY VRYHOFANCHORSTHIS ISSUE SUBSEA TENSIONING DRAG EMBEDDED PLATE anchors INTERMOOR FOURCHON FACILITY API RECOMMENDATIONThe 75 tons anchors are the biggestin Vryhof history and believed thebiggest in the offshore did produce a 65 ton StevprisMk3 in the 1980s and later even a 60ton Stevshark was built, however thecurrent ones include 15 tons ofballast and are thus actually 75 tons. With records like this, normally oneuses superlatives, compare it to thesize or weight of the Eiffel like that. Well, to speak inaviator terms, the anchors wing spanis 12 meters (that s one heck of astretched limo) or their weight equals35 American cars.
anchounter 42 april 2007 a meeting ground for anchor and mooring news published by vryhof anchors this issue • subsea tensioning • drag embedded plate anchors
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