What is it Like to Boat Through a Wind Farm?
Test-driving Ørsted’s Block Island Wind Revolution video simulator.
April 26, 2021
“You can just step out of the room if you start to feel sick. It happens sometimes,” Brian Holden said. That’s something to think about when experiencing a 180° video simulator of an 80’ trawler navigating through 100 wind turbines in a 12’ following sea. With everything seeming to move on deck you can’t help but lean to port when the boat heels, then ducking a bit when a wave explodes over the bow rail and salts the windshields.
Holden is Chairman and President of the US Maritime Resource Center in Middletown and has worked closely with Ørsted, a Danish energy corporation that negotiated offshore lease agreements in several locations from Virginia to Massachusetts, in developing interactive software to show potential conditions for mariners and anglers. This simulator focuses on their lease east of Block Island, named cleverly enough, R