Final Saturday, Fryslân Wind Farm, positioned south of the Afsluitdijk, within the Frisian a part of the Dutch IJsselmeer lake, was the scene of a singular crusing race.
In whole, 125 crusing yachts and 20 Lemster barges with a complete of 750 crew competed for the Windmill Cup 2023. The race over 22 nautical miles from the city Hindeloopen took a number of turns proper by the 383 MW Fryslân Wind Farm, the world’s largest wind farm in an inland water.
Contributors needed to deal not solely with wind pressure 5 from the southwest, but in addition with the surprising air swirls brought on by the rotors of the 89 generators. This made the race between the generators on the IJsselmeer a real spectacle.
The organisation of this distinctive occasion is within the fingers of the committee of the previous ‘Nacht- en Ontijrace’ crusing race. The committee responded to an invite from the homeowners of the wind farm who promised, even earlier than its development, that this a part of the IJsselmeer could be arrange once more for vacationer and leisure crusing after the wind farm was accomplished. The motto of the Windmill Cup occasion was subsequently: ‘Wind energy, we are able to’t keep away from it, however we are able to get by it.’ The organisation of the race for the Windmill Cup was within the fingers of the committee the Koninklijke Watersportvereniging Sneek.
Get an impression from the race within the video beneath:
Fryslân Wind Farm
Fryslân Wind Farm turned totally operational in 2021. The wind farm contains 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind generators and was constructed by contracting consortium Zuiderzeewind (Siemens Gamesa Renewable Vitality and Van Oord Offshore Wind). The venture is owned by Windpark Fryslân Holding B.V. (Windpark Fryslân Beheer B.V. (85%) and the province of Fryslân (15%) through Fryslân Hurdewyn B.V.
