{"id":11368,"date":"2010-05-23T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2010-05-27T03:26:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:26:18","slug":"get-home-sail-looking-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/get-home-sail-looking-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Home Sail &#8211; Looking Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"FPB--64-get--home-sail-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/FPB-64-get-home-sail-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB--64-get--home-sail-1.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve wrestled for years with the issue of a back up propulsion system, and have covered this in detail in previous blogs. Simply put, the odds are if you lose power the odds are it will be due to fuel problems or damage to the drive line, both of which put get home engines out as well.<\/p>\n<p>So we have concentrated on a system which could, under the right conditions, get us across an ocean without using fuel or a prop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a previous post we showed you a rough concept prototype sail cut fro tarp material. Now we have the real thing, 45 square meters\/475 square feet of sail area flown off the end of the boom and tacked to the foremast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"FPB--64-get--home-sail.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/FPB-64-get-home-sail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB--64-get--home-sail.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is obviously not a high performance rig, but in ten knots of breeze a few days ago it was moving <em>Avatar<\/em> at 1.5 to two knots, and she was holding course with the autopilot.<\/p>\n<p>There is still lots of testing to do, but the prognosis is favorable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-103.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-103.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-103.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-105.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-105.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-105.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-102.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-102.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB-64-Get-Home-Sail-102.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve wrestled for years with the issue of a back up propulsion system, and have covered this in detail in <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/get-home-sail-looking-better\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368"}],"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=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}