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What if forget a part? Now, you'd need several hours to get back in the boat, go back to shore, and THEN drive to the supply shed. On shore, you call your buddy on the cell phone, HE drives out from the supply shed and gives you the part.

What if there's a storm? What maintenance crew is gonna go 5 miles offshore in violent seas to repair a windmill?

IMHO, it'd much more efficient to simply generate electricity from tofu.
All ya gotta do is put a bunch of enviro-monkeys in one room where they can beat on quartz crystals with little hammers. That'll generate plenty of piezoelectricity that can be sold commercially. And since the only fuel that is consumed is tofu, it's the perfect means of disposing of that hazardous waste!

It just seems like a dicey proposition, putting 130 of these monsters literally in the teeth of the Atlantic Ocean. This is the region of The Perfect Storm, remember. I know we've placed complex structures far at sea, but things like oil drilling platforms, or the Troll gas production platform, are humongeous, gigantic, tremendously strong and robust structures. Somehow I don't think they're in the same league as these things.