Rampion Boat Trips

There are now a number of boats offering trips to the windfarm. So it may seem a simple choice of just picking the first one you come to. However, not all the trips are the same. In fact Rampion Boat Trips are not like the rest.

Rampion Boat Trips was the first boat to offer trips to the windfar...

£5 off each ticket when purchasing 4 or more for tickets on the same Rampion Windfarm trip aboard Defiance.
Scheduled times can be found on the website www.brightonboat.co.uk
To take advantage of this offer contact brightoboat@btinternet.com

During the summer of 2019 we will be offering educational tours of the windfarm on Saturdays and Sunday every week. The trips will generally be scheduled to depart Brighton Marina at 10am and 2pm. During the season additional trips including evenings and weekdays will be available.
The boat is a...

A new book is now available to accompany the windfarm tours aboard Defiance. This is the first edition published in February 2019, just weeks after the official announcement of the completion of the windfarm.

This new book is in full colour contains over 60 photographs taken during the actual co...

Announcing the first of the 2018 summer time dates for trips to the windfarm. Trips are available every Sunday from April through to September, with more dates to become available later in the year.

If you do not see a suitable date please contact us as we are able to add additional dates if the...

Week 84 of the Rampion Offshore Windfarm Project.
In the picture is Pacific Osprey behind the offshore sub-station. The substation being the connection point from all the wind turbines. Connected in chains the 33,000V power generated by the turbines is transformed to 150,000V for transmission to ...

Trips to the Rampion windfarm are available for all the weekends in September.

Trips are aboard Defiance a 10m Aquastar, primarily used for pleasure trips. Aquastars are well known for being solid and seaworthy boats.

Defiance has space for 10 passengers that can all be seated comfortably on ...

The wind turbines are only part of the story of bringing the electricity generated by the windfarm to be used by everyone.

Each of the 116 turbines are connected in chains to a substation out at sea. This lies on the northern edge of the windfarm area, just about in the middle of the visible tu...

If you have been wondering how they have been laying and burying the cables in the windfarm. Fugro are equipped with the SMD QT1400 machines.
These remotely operated vehicles travel along the sea bed. The cutting tool you can see in the middle at the bottom cuts the trench which for the Rampion p...