Hi Steve, I need to get a hard drive for my boat, a 52′ sloop. My question is what kind of specs do I need to know that the hard drives will keep working if I get into a really pounding sea. I’d like to have 40 Gigs of storage.
This is not the kind of question I’d expect a boat builder to know about, but can you send me on to someone who might have more information about this? Many Thanks, Mac
Hi Mac: We have used both land based and portable computers for years on our boats, and never had a hard drive problem. I suspect if you go with a portable computer, you can’t go wrong as these have pretty good shock protection built in.
If you are using an external drive, on a home type CPU, maybe sitting on top of the flexible foam in which is shipped would provide enough shock protection. Steve
Posted by Steve Dashew (November 30, 1999)
April 21st, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Hello Linda and Steve,
I am getting close to painting my 54′ steel cutter sail boat (Bruce Roberts’ Kit), which I have been building for 8 years. I have all your books and most of DVDs. Fallowing your posts I noticed that you are using a glued on non skid on the FPB 64. Would you share the source of this product and your experience with it? Have you used it for a while or is it something that you are going to test?
Thank you for your help.
Remek Czarnecki
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Steve Dashew Reply:
April 21st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Hi Remek:
It is Treadmaster to which you are referring.
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