OMAE 2014 PAPERS: OMAE2014-23587 “Snap Loads on Mooring Lines of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Structure” Authors: Wei-Ting Hsu (Wei-ting_Hsu@umit.maine.edu), Krish Thiagarajan, Matthew Hall, Michael MacNicoll, Richard Akers. Abstract There are a number of design challenges facing the mooring systems of floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) platforms in an offshore environment. Some unique aspects of