You are looking at the business end of what will become an enormously strong bow structure on FPB 97-1. This is the centerline girder, or stem bar as it is commonly known. It is 40mm thick here, and when joined by the two 12mm topside plates will be a total of 64mm thick, or 2.5″. […]
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Hurricane Sandy – Live Data From Wind Horse Using Maretron’s N2K View
We’ve put together a live web view of Wind Horse‘s “vital stats”, to track how she is doing as Hurricane Sandy passes by while she is hauled out at Triton Marine in Beaufort, North Carolina. This data comes from the Maretron N2K View system via their Cloud Server. This view of the data will refresh […]
Cruising Life ALong the ICW – A Path For The Unwilling, Or World Class Cruising?
Many of the yachts traversing the ICW use it as a hide out from the vagaries of ocean passaging. The “Ditch” as the Intra Coastal Waterway is often called, is shallow, generally narrow, muddy, and a pain to navigate, compared to the ocean. But there is another side, one that has an allure that is […]
N2K View From 35,000 Feet – Or, Maretron Cloud Remote Monitoring Is The Answer
As reported earlier, we have been using Maretron’s N2K View aboard Wind Horse to get up to speed on this product, which may be seeing more sophisticated implementation in the FPB fleet. While we are not great fans of overly complex things – we work hard at keeping our systems simple (relatively speaking) – our […]
We’re Getting In On The Voting Fun
With all the election talk and debating going on here in the good ‘ol US of A recently, we got to thinking: how could we get in on the fun? When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve the attachment to all things ancient (i.e. paper), and the appeal of progress […]
Thermostat Testing
Our starboard engine has been running a touch cooler than the port, so we pulled the thermostats to check them. Heating them up in a pan of water showed them starting to open at 160 degrees F and fully open by 175. This seems normal, but we replaced them with spares anyway. Engine temps are […]
Keeping An Eagle Eye On The Weather – Dark Clouds Sometimes Come With Silver Linings
When you see frontal clouds like this it gets one to thinking. And then we notice the birds begin to fly south. Warm weather anyone? How about white sand beaches, clear water, tropical breezes? The result of these omens and much cogitating has Wind Horse following; abandoning Maine. We are headed back to Beaufort, North […]
To Track Or Not – That Is The Solar Array Conumdrum
When we started with the solar panel project on Wind Horse, we were 100% certain we would use the panels only in flat mode, unless they were in storage mode at the dock. In the past we have always thought that tracking was not worth the effort. We have previously reported that substantial increases in […]
FPB 97-1 And FPB 64-9 Framing Starts, FPB 64-6 Almost Ready To Launch, And Other Exciting Details
The Circa team is hard at work on the initial stages of FPB 97-1 fabrication, and we are starting to receive some photos of the process. The photo above shows the floors (frames) and tank top for a section of the hull. This sub assembly is upside down on the building jig. The by now […]
We’re Big Fans Of Avatar
Nope, I’m not talking about the movie – beautiful blue color in the above shot by Carol Parker notwithstanding. As a matter of fact, your genial author couldn’t make it through the unbelievably tedious sci-fi re-telling of Pocohantas. No, we here at SetSail are big fans of The Avatar Logs, the blog and photo site […]
