At 161 metres long and 49 metres wide, the Pacific Osprey — the world’s joint-largest wind-installation vessel (WIV) — dwarfed the small, largely abandoned shipyard of Munkebo, where its naming ceremony was being held.
On board it resembled a barren floating city — a vast, wide open grey metal deck topped with a labyrinth of black and white steel pipes, gearwheels and ladders — while up on the crane, 25 metres above, harsh winds bit into the visitors’ faces, as if to remind them of the vessel’s purpose.
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