{"id":10988,"date":"2010-04-04T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/stern-release\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:08:20","slug":"stern-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/stern-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Stern Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"FPB-64-Full-Load-Stern-Release-1\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fpb-64-full-load-stern-release-1.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the design aspects which requires careful attention is the water flow towards and then off the stern. A hull like the FPB 64 can handle a certain amount of immersion of the transom and still be efficient, but if the water release isn&#8217;t clean excessive drag is the result.<\/p>\n<p>The photos in this blog were taken at full load, running at 1600 RPM at about 9.5 knots. The FPB 64 has a out eight knots of true wind behind her and a four to six foot (1.2 to 1.85m) swell adding a little push.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"FPB-64-Full-Load-Stern-Release-2\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fpb-64-full-load-stern-release-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the boat slowed down on a wave the water tended to pile up a bit, occasionally covering half of the engine exhaust flap.<\/p>\n<p>Without a clean release like this it would not be possible to hit th type of fuel burn numbers we are seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the design aspects which requires careful attention is the water flow towards and then off the stern. A <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/stern-release\/\">&#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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb-64-sea-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988"}],"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=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}