{"id":15042,"date":"2011-02-01T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=15042"},"modified":"2011-02-01T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:20:25","slug":"fpb-64-iron-lady-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-64-iron-lady-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 64 Iron Lady Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FPB64-3-Launch-360.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB64 3 Launch 360\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let us introduce you to FPB 64-3, <em>Iron Lady, <\/em>about to start her sea trials.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FPB64-3-Launch-345.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB64 3 Launch 345\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Iron Lad<\/em>y is the first FPB 64 to have a stern extension bolted on. We will have performance numbers on this shortly and report them in due course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FPB64-3-Launch-3481.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB64 3 Launch 348\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note the nicely faired buttock lines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FPB64-3-Launch-3471.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB64 3 Launch 347\" width=\"600\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rudder is huge relative to the steering loads at sea, optimized for close in maneuvering. It is built to twice the ABS rule scantling requirements. Note how clean it is when seen from aft. This is a key ingredient in prop efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FPB64-3-Launch-366.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB64 3 Launch 366\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First thing on launch is check the hull penetrations, which in the extension is a depth transducer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FPB64-3-Launch-373.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FPB64 3 Launch 373\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Iron Lady<\/em> afloat. After 30 years, and more launches than we can count, it still gives us a buzz to see a new design sitting on her lines.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned. There are more photos coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us introduce you to FPB 64-3, Iron Lady, about to start her sea trials.<\/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-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb-64-sea-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042"}],"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=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}