{"id":45271,"date":"2017-09-19T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=45271"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:47:35","slug":"fpb-78-1-video-exploring-the-simrad-forward-looking-sonar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-78-1-video-exploring-the-simrad-forward-looking-sonar\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 78-1 Video: Exploring With Simrad Forward Looking Sonar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45272\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cochise_maskillharbor.jpg\" alt=\"Cochise_maskillharbor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cochise_maskillharbor.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cochise_maskillharbor-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cochise_maskillharbor-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have been critical of the Simrad radar\u00a0and chart plotting systems. But there is good news as well. The AP 70\/80 autopilots are excellent, easy to program and very smart. But that was expected.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Where we have really been pleasantly surprised is with their Forward Looking Sonar. At less than USD $1000 it actually works well in good sonar conditions. It has limited range but gives a good warning tool. So far we have seen targets at ranges up to 200\/250 feet.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MD9DXQOIQ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been critical of the Simrad radar\u00a0and chart plotting systems. But there is good news as well. The AP <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-78-1-video-exploring-the-simrad-forward-looking-sonar\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,180,247,248,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dashew-blog","category-fpb-78","category-fpb-78-videos","category-logs","category-sailing-videos-slideshows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45271"}],"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=45271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45275,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45271\/revisions\/45275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}