Inventors:
Robert Clague - Sugar Land TX, US
International Classification:
B63B 35/44
Abstract:
An offshore structure has stabilizing deck extension members formed as watertight bodies and extending along a port peripheral wall and starboard peripheral wall of the hull. The stabilizing members add stability without substantially increasing weight of the structure. Each of the stabilizing members has an inverted triangle cross-sectional configuration wherein the water plane area of the stabilizing members increases from a lower portion toward an upper portion.