As the offshore wind industry gathers pace in US waters, we thought it would be a good time to illustrate the importance of simulating complex installation schedules to support efficient offshore planning.

It is common knowledge to the industry that US regulations mean that the installation of wind farms in US waters are restricted in their use of foreign vessels.  In particular, the ‘Jones Act’ dictates that vessels transporting goods between two US locations need to be US built, flagged and owned.  Read more >

The latest release of Mermaid is now available. In this release we’ve made some changes to the metocean tab to improve its useability.

If you’re interested in Mermaid please get in touch.

New Features

MM-2333: Metocean Tab Redesign

We’ve redesigned the metocean tab to improve importing and data viewing experience.  This is particularly useful in files with a large number of metocean points (for example, if a user keeps a library type file of data).

Bug Fixes

We’ve fixed a few small bugs in this release:

MM-2272: Undo/redo reorders items in the map side bar. Read more >

The past month has seen two significant software updates to Mermaid.  This article introduces these updates and explains what benefits they bring the user. If you’re not a current user and would like to know more, then try a free trial –  Get in touch!

Metocean Climatology Statistics Module

This significant upgrade of Mermaid sees the introduction of the Metocean Climatology Module and makes Mermaid one of the most diverse and comprehensive weather planning tools available.

It provides the options to generate both simple climatology statistics and complex simulations of marine operations together with a free metocean database. Read more >

The latest release of Mermaid is now available. In this release there is only one new feature, but it is a big one which we have been working on for a long time.

If you’re interested in Mermaid please get in touch.

New Features

MM-2286: Metocean Statistics

It is now possible to generate overview metocean statistics, including probability of exceedance, persistence and occurrence stats and metocean distribution tables.  This is a large update to Mermaid and it, and some of our other recent developments, are discussed more fully here. Read more >

The latest release of Mermaid is now available. In this release there are a number of new features in the results side of Mermaid

If you’re interested in Mermaid please get in touch.

New Features

MM-1286: Axis Options

It is now possible to manually set the axis limits on charts.

MM-1354: Export progress burn up data to Excel

The data displayed in the progress burn up charts can now be exported to Microsoft Excel.

MM-1853: Expand all/collapse all buttons on the results Gantt chart

Expand and collapse all buttons have been added to the results Gantt chart, allowing quicker navigation of the chart. Read more >

The latest release of Mermaid is now available, including the addition of crews for restricting work.

If you’re interested in Mermaid please get in touch.

New Features

MM-2023: Crews

It is now possible to restrict work using simple crews, a full explanation of how this feature works can be found here on our support portal.

Bug-fixes

MM-2230: Adding a 13th results set causes all chart series to be the same colour.

MM-2288: Attempting metocean download without internet connection crashes Mermaid