Floating wave energy converter

A floating wave energy converter with multiple floating buoys 1 which move up and down along upright columns 2 when a wave passes the converter. The base of the columns is connected to a submerged structure 3. Inside the columns is a generator (10, fig.2) with a force transmission strut (6, fig.2) connected to an electromagnetic device (7, fig. 2), which is locked to the magnetic field of an electromagnetic apparatus (8, fig.2) within the floating buoys. Movement of the floating buoy transfers movement to the strut and converts to electric energy in the generator. Each floating buoy may have several columns. The electromagnetic device may have permanent magnets and one or more coils around an amplifying ferromagnetic material on the floating buoy and on the force transmission rod. There may be a bearing 4 placed between the column and the submerged structure to harness the rotational motion for energy conversion.