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Wind Horse<\/em> has finished her seventh season of cruising, there are 5600 hours on her engines, and more than 50,000 miles have passed under her svelte canoe body. She has traveled from New Zealand to Alaska, through Panama to Greenland, across the North Atlantic to the British Isles, and cruised Norway to Svalbard and the Arctic ice pack to within 600 miles of the North Pole. She has coasted Spain, been with the glitterati in the Balearic Islands, and set a record in the ARC from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, that could stand for a long time. She made it fom Las Palmas to St. Lucia (across the Atlantic) to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and on to Marathon without stopping for fuel. This year has been less ambitious, with just the East Coast of the US to Maine and back on the itinerary. All of this in comfort, with minimal maintenance, and a very limited list of gremlins.<\/p>\n So, we think Wind Horse<\/em> is due for a bit of pampering.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monday, she will start by having her motor mounts replaced, engines realigned, and installation of noise abatement concepts we want to test. After a brief trial Wind Horse<\/em> will be hauled out at the Jarrett Bay Marine Park near Beaufort, North Carolina. Circumnavigator Cory McMahon (Triton Marine) will do many of the projects.<\/p>\n We will start at Bausch American Towers where Danny Meadows’s crew will fabricate a framework for the flying bridge canopy similar to the FPB 64. We’ll be (finally) bringing our sonar, radar, and nav system up to the flying bridge. There’s a short list of preventative maintenance items, and a longer “maybe” list, depending on how the primary items go time and cost wise.<\/p>\n We will also be remoding the hydrostatics to bring Wind Horse<\/em> closer in scale to the FPB 115. This will be accomplished with a swim step extension, which has other obvious advantages. Circa have fabricated this, including underwater main engine exhausts, and it is on a ship heading for Norfolk.<\/p>\n Between doing a bit of work on Wind Horse<\/em> ourselves, and keeping up with the FPB 64 and 115, we’ll not be bored. We shall endeavor to keep you abreast of how things go.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Wind](\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wind-Horse_Old-Barney-3.jpg\" "\\"Wind")
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