ABSTRACT
Mooring systems have been the subject of extensive research for the offshore oil and gas industry to stabilise structures. These existing mooring technologies have been adopted since then in renewable energy with wave energy converters (WEC) (Iraide 2013, Fadaeenejad 2014, Ringwood 2008). Concepts have been considered and implemented depending on their principle and the location. Offshore WEC would give the opportunity in the deep waters (∼100 m), to make use of the energy potential of large waves in both amplitude and period (Ringwood 2008). Catenary moorings are generally employed to attach structures to the seabed, and it was first suggested that the catenaries were ideal for WEC (Harris 2004).
