What is it?

[Bejasus]

 

[Poignard]

Wind turbine blades?

 

[Bejasus]

bloody hell, yer too sharp by far. I obviously wasn't devious enough.
I had intended giving other clues. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Bejasus]

they are waiting to ship to the Uk, to be installed offshore Grimsby.
Big buggers though.

 

[Heigaro]

How disappointing. I thought it was a load of very old, naked trapeze artists hanging upside-down. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

...the revised picture is of the same ladies standing in a Force 9 last week. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[cnh]

They make them in Cowes. And the name of the boat that takes them to Southampton is ... BLADERUNNER !

 

[VicS]

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They make them in Cowes

[/ QUOTE ] Newport i think you'll find

 

[Bejasus]

these ones are the latest generation Siemens and made here in Denmark.

 

[snowleopard]

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I must admit I've never seen a ship on blocks before but it has to be Liverpool /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[PaulJS]

Ohhh!
I want to be working on that there proper jack-up, instead of this decrepit old thing I'm stuck on now.
Is there a "jealous" smiley?

 

[l'escargot]

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They make them in Cowes

[/ QUOTE ] Newport i think you'll find

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But sometimes store them in Cowes:

and you can see Bladerunner here on the quayside below the crane:

 

[VicS]

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But sometimes store them in Cowes

[/ QUOTE ] They're getting everywhere. It looks to me as though Bladerunner is too big to fit in the dock at the Newport works. The original plan was to load them on a barge at Newport, hence the special dock, and take them to Southampton for transhipment from there.

There was an article in the Institution of Civil Engineers Magazine "New Civil Engineer" about the Newport facility a couple of years or so back. I don't have it now though.

The idea of the factory on the IOW was that the skills for making the blades wre already on the Island.

 

[BarryH]

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They make them in Cowes

[/ QUOTE ] Newport i think you'll find

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......they do. I fitted out the offices in that factory. They had about 20/30 admin staff and 6 bods in the production area at the time.......

 

[gwc2004]

And this is how they look when things go wrong! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA