Charybdis, the first U.S.-built wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), has arrived in Virginia to begin work on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, the largest offshore wind farm currently under construction in the United States.
The vessel docked at Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Hampton Bays, Virginia, on September 17, after leaving Texas on August 22, according to its AIS signal. Dominion Energy, which commissioned Charybdis, confirmed that the vessel is on track to start installing turbines later this month.
Charybdis was built at Seatrium’s AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas. The vessel is 472 feet (144 meters) long, 184 feet (56 meters) wide, and 38 feet (12 meters) deep. It can accommodate up to 119 people and is fitted with a 426-foot (130-meter) crane that can lift up to 2,200 tons, strong enough to install wind turbines of 12 MW or larger.
The construction work began in December 2020, and the ship was launched
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