{"id":15875,"date":"2011-04-03T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=15875"},"modified":"2015-10-16T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:44:58","slug":"controllable-pitch-props-on-fpbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/controllable-pitch-props-on-fpbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Controllable Pitch Props on FPBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve &#8230; I just read the Propellers section on the Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia, and got wondering: given the FPBs are such efficient machines, wouldn\u00b4t there be a case for controllable pitch props on them?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Alex:<\/p>\n<p>CP props work great where the loads vary a lot, as with a sailboat motorsailing, or a fishing boat pulling a trawl, and then racing home with a catch. However, the FPBs operate in a narrow load range and would not benefit enough to make the cost, length, and efficiency drop under average conditions worth while.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve &#8230; I just read the Propellers section on the Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia, and got wondering: given the FPBs <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/controllable-pitch-props-on-fpbs\/\">&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875"}],"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=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35923,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions\/35923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}