More on windmill farm

[ScottC]

Originally Posted by likwid

The alerion is a total sleeper too.
Old school above water layout with a high performance bottom.

Bristol did a good job fixing their own work too. (When x-Titan XI was t-boned at Antigua). You'd never know they stuffed a wide body sheet winch all the way past the pedastle.

I'm glad I only work on sleds these days. No crawling in bilges. All the carbon panels just pop out and everything is routed cleanly.
God bless empty boats.

Been helping my father put B&G Network on his Cape Dory 36... thankfully using the old wires as messengers but some spots have been at the very least... "interesting".

But back to the topic, yes, it takes alot of wind for those blades to start humming.
Probably a vast majority of the days, unless you looked up at them, you'd never know they were there.

B&B huh, probably the highest quality electronics on the market. They sold out to Simrad a few years back. VERY high priced though, the masthead unit is three time the cost of a raymarine

[likwid]

Originally Posted by ScottC

B&B huh, probably the highest quality electronics on the market. They sold out to Simrad a few years back. VERY high priced though, the masthead unit is three time the cost of a raymarine

I do work mostly on the Hercules and Hydra systems. You can buy a boat for what some of these full systems cost.

Got a tabletpc with Deckman sitting on my desk here right now running as a slave to my laptop running Deckman as the master via bluetooth doing some testing.

Observation of the day: don't load a polar file for wind trends as the polar file for the boat. It makes deckman crash and you have to reinstall it. Ball Peen hammer next to all nav stations as far as im concerned. (not to smash the computer, but to smash the fingers of the idiot who screws it up in the middle of a race)

Gougeon Brothers used to build boats and windmill blades with laminated wood and their "secret sauce" epoxy in the 80's

[ScottC]

Originally Posted by likwid

I do work mostly on the Hercules and Hydra systems. You can buy a boat for what some of these full systems cost.


Gougeon Brothers used to build boats and windmill blades with laminated wood and their "secret sauce" epoxy in the 80's

That's right and we all know what the "secret sauce" ended up being now don't we

[kevin d]

I have been out in Palm Springs off I-10 where they have a pretty big windmill farm. With the winds moving at 45 mph all I heard was the wind. I guess if you were right next to one you could hear it spin but its pretty quiet.