{"id":28169,"date":"2013-05-17T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T06:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=28169"},"modified":"2013-05-15T02:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T07:17:38","slug":"fpb-97-1-plated-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-97-1-plated-up\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 97-1 Plated Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 101\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-101.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FPB 97-1 is well along now, with the main framing and plating of the hull almost complete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 100\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-100.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"900\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We spend some of our weight budget on extra heavy topside and bottom plates because these gives higher factors of safety, and they produce very fair surfaces, as you can see here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 102\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-102.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"487\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course once these are full welded there will be a bit of distortion, but compared to most metal yachts they are almost as fair as a painted hull &#8211; without the hassles of paint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 104\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-104.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The forepeak is now decked over, giving a sense of space to this area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 103\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-103.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"742\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of decking, the roof of the great room, which is also the deck of the Matrix deck area, is assembled and tack welded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 106\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-106.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo is taken from the aft end of the Matrix deck. The notches in the coamings are for access to the docking stations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"FPB 971 Construction progress 105\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/FPB-971-Construction-progress-105.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are looking aft here, down what will become the stairway between main deck and Matrix deck. The flanged surface, center left in the photo, is where the mast assembly will be affixed.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of other things going on with this first of the Wicked FPB 97s, and we&#8217;ll show you a few more details next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FPB 97-1 is well along now, with the main framing and plating of the hull almost complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,177,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dashew-blog","category-three","category-wicked-fpb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169"}],"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=28169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28171,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions\/28171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}