{"id":23355,"date":"2012-04-18T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2012-04-19T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T00:37:49","slug":"fpb-64-get-home-system-report-from-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-64-get-home-system-report-from-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 64 Get Home System – Report From Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"D3S9153\"<\/p>\n

We’ve now heard from Circa and Avatar<\/em>‘s owners about the newly installed get-home system. The news is good.<\/p>\n

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\"D3S9133\"<\/p>\n

Get-home systems which only work in light winds and smooth water are a negative in our opinion, as they increase drag and complexity without any real benefits. Afterall, if the winds are light you can use the dinghy as a tug, or anchor and fix your problem. So we are happy to report that the get-home system on Avatar<\/em> looks like it will give a long distance cruising speed of 7.5 knots, with moderate RPM and sound levels. And while the system has only been tested in 20\/25 knots of breeze, it appears as if good progress into wind and sea can be made up through 30 knots or more.<\/p>\n

Maneuvering at slow speed on the main engine has been reported as minimally impacted, except for in reverse where the tendency to pull to starboard has almost totally been eliminated.<\/p>\n

The track in the photo above shows an offshore turn in both directions. Turning to starboard, where the get-home prop is on the outside of the turn, is the tighter of the two. Maneuvering in port under get-home is not as crisp as with main engine, but certainly acceptable.<\/p>\n

Finally, performance under power with the main engine does not appear noticeably degraded. Avatar<\/em> has had a stern extension added, and her gain from this has more than offset the loss from the second prop skeg drag.<\/p>\n

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Circa did a nice job on the installation, with minimal impact on access to the other systems.<\/p>\n

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We are impressed with how well this turned out, as retrofits are never easy. Thanks are due to Carol Parker for sharing her photos with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve now heard from Circa and Avatar‘s owners about the newly installed get-home system. The news is good. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fpb-64-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355"}],"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=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23380,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions\/23380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}