Patent ID: 7766710
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
1. A mooring system comprising: a vessel with a cavity at a lower side, a turret extending from deck level to the cavity, a mooring buoy releasably attached to the cavity via a coupling mechanism, and at least one riser being supported by the mooring buoy and slidably received in a channel in the mooring buoy, wherein the riser has at an end thereof a coupling member for coupling to piping on the vessel and a riser connector member supported on the mooring buoy when the mooring buoy is disconnected from the vessel, a substantially vertically oriented track extending from a lower level towards said deck level, a movable trolley which is releasably engagable with the connector member and which is displaced along said track from said lower level to a higher level by a drive element, for: