{"id":16359,"date":"2011-06-01T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=16359"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:51:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:51:20","slug":"fpb-64s-five-and-six-construction-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-64s-five-and-six-construction-details\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 64s # Five and Six Construction Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We look at photos of FPB 64s under construction\u00a0typically on a weekly basis.\u00a0And although we have seen this many times before, with older designs, and with the FPBs, we still get a buzz. The long time SetSailors amongst you will have been through this with us as well, but it has been a year or more, so we are going to post updates from time to time. If we are totally boring you, protest, and we will take theshowing under advisement.<\/p>\n

Starting with the pointy end, the Circa fabricators are getting ready to tack on rolled plate.<\/p>\n

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Note the 12mm (almost 1\/2″) bottom plate!<\/p>\n

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Fork lift moves the bottom plate into a position where it is tack welded to the framing skeleton.<\/p>\n

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Bottom plate tacked in place.<\/p>\n

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The tangential plates across the seams are for alignment.<\/p>\n

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Structure starts with the framing system. This one is double the stiffness required by the Lloyds Special Service rule.<\/p>\n

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Next a few details on t he deck.<\/p>\n

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The computer controlled cutting table at work.<\/p>\n

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Parts are marked with construction details during the plotting process prior to the cutter being engaged.<\/p>\n

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These parts have been ground smooth with areas to be welded propped<\/p>\n

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Furniture is coming along for both boats.<\/p>\n

\"FPB-64--5-6-May30-2011-118.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Circa are way ahead of where they were on the first four boats, now all cruising.<\/p>\n

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Drawers for both hulls five and six.<\/p>\n

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The fridge\/freezer box for #5 is almost complete.<\/p>\n

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These boxes are extraordinarily expensive, but very efficient.<\/p>\n

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Can you ID this? Its \u00a0the flying bridge table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We look at photos of FPB 64s under construction\u00a0typically on a weekly basis.\u00a0And although we have seen this many times …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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb-64-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359"}],"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=16359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}