Anyone have an idea what this could be?

[MellowshipSlinky]

Sitting on Gorleston beach in Norfolk and this is across the way.
Intrigued as to what it may be - some sort of power station maybe?
Google doesn’t seem to throw much up.

[joema]

some sort of jack rig?

https://www.myshiptracking.com/vessels/sea-install...

[Pothole]

Fracking rig?

[eharding]

MellowshipSlinky said:

Sitting on Gorleston beach in Norfolk and this is across the way.
Intrigued as to what it may be - some sort of power station maybe?
Google doesn’t seem to throw much up.

I think the silver things are wind turbine masts due be positioned by the Sea Installer?....so, yes, in a way.

[Equus]

eharding said:

I think the silver things are wind turbine masts due be positioned by the Sea Installer?

This.

They've been out at the wind farm I can see from the beach where I live ( a bit further up the coast from Gorleston), earlier this week.

[Condi]

The brown stacks get pushed down onto the sea bed, lifting the boat out the water and providing a stable platform for wind turbine installation. The silver things are probably the towers, but they're usually painted white. Not sure why those ones are not.

[MellowshipSlinky]

Brilliant, thanks chaps!

[aeropilot]

One of these....

[Sixpackpert]

Have a mate that works for Siemens as a blade tech been in Norfolk recently. Look like wind turbine uprights to me.

[Benni]

You´re all wrong, I know the owner, he is japanese and terribly proud of his "Bozo Ship" exhaust pipes.

This used to be a car enthusiast site, sad that no one saw this earlier.

[mickrick]

Benni said:

This used to be a car enthusiast site.

You’re not wrong there, someone asked me what the hell a BD engine is, on the Ford pages the other day.
So I posted on Classic Cars and yesterday’s Hero’s as obviously I chose the wrong demographic, who are more interested in the latest Focus, only to have admin. delete it 🙄

[TeeRev]

There's something similar parked at Newhaven at the moment, I think it may be going to do some work at the Rampion wind farm.

[anonymous-user]

Condi said:

The brown stacks get pushed down onto the sea bed, lifting the boat out the water and providing a stable platform for wind turbine installation. The silver things are probably the towers, but they're usually painted white. Not sure why those ones are not.

Jack up barges mean you can work on things at sea without bobbing around all over the place, at the mercy or wind, tides and waves, which makes precision crane work (like assembling a wind turbine!) much, much easier!!

Also, note the vortex shedding spiral wind deflectors on the tops of those turbine towers! (helps prevent lateral oscilations caused by the cyclical shedding of the vortex as the wind passes the circular tower)

http://www.spartaengineering.com/vortex-shedding-a...