{"id":10124,"date":"2010-01-22T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/engine-room-air-intake-design\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:20:00","slug":"engine-room-air-intake-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/engine-room-air-intake-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine Room Air Intake Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"FPB64-Jan-18-2010-108\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fpb64-jan-18-2010-108.jpg\" width=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Designing an engine room air intake system is a complex process, full of tradeoffs. Before you start you need to have a clear goal for the system. For us this is simple: we want a system that minimizes water incursion through a variety of weather conditions with the boat upright, knocked down, and inverted.<\/p>\n<p>How do we accomplish this?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It starts on deck with the positioning of the intake. The closer to the centerline your intake, the more heel the boat will stand before the air intake is submerged. On the FPB 64 the air intake is on center.<\/p>\n<p>Next is the exposure of the intake to wind driven rain, spray, or solid water from breaking seas. Centerline and aft facing, in the lee of the house structure, happens to be an optimal location for mitigating upright risk factors.<\/p>\n<p>The special intake grill in the lead photo is another part of the story. It is designed to block solid water and reduce heavy rain intrusion. What does get by the grill&#8217;s many fins drops to the bottom of what is in effect a giant Dorade box and is drained before it drops into the engine room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing an engine room air intake system is a complex process, full of tradeoffs. Before you start you need to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/engine-room-air-intake-design\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}