Recent content by Ric

Good luck, Skip! Looking forward to following your progress. Here are some pix of Hull #2, double cabin. .

No battery issues, new boat with 880ah AGMs, but perhaps a connection isn't secured properly. Entire nav system is Raymarine via Raymarine bus but other systems reporting over NMEA. Thanks for the suggestion, will check connections for any signs of wobbliness.

We have a new Evo, with a rudder sensor. I will check the firmware vs the latest version, thanks for the tip. I have run through the calibration at the dock twice, and got two different results; one a lock to lock of 16.7 sec and now a lock to lock of 12.5 sec. I will take the boat out and do a...

I am having comparable problems with our new boat, which has a Raymarine Type 1 pump. The autopilot works fine in flat water where small rudder corrections are effective. But in a seaway, with the bow being knocked around, we end up hunting with 30-degree swings to either side of the course...

DMS said that the vulnerable part was the knuckle where the rotation occurs. The deflector we mounted was basically a clamshell shape about 4" high just forward of the unit. The concern was small log strikes. It'd bounce stuff to one side or the other or over the rotor itself. Nothing can be...

We went with the arch for the real estate and ease of routing solar panel wiring from the associated bimini top. It hinges down, but we don't plan on lowering it since all of our plans are NW coastal and offshore.

Sorry but the photo of the unit with the rotor isn't from our boat, it was from NSM's. Scott sent it to me to indicate the location of a deflector we were putting forward of the rotor. Apologies. I don't seem to have a photo of the installed rotor. This shows the location relative to the...

Here are a few images of the installation of a single rotor on our H38S.

I don't think that's accurate. Helmsman hulls are semi-displacement, with a flatter aft section that let's them get past hull speed, given sufficient horsepower (and willingness to accept the increased fuel consumption). I agree, sweet spot for speed and fuel consumption should be 7.5-8.0 for...

Our solution is to place the panels on the bimini forward of the arch.

Two views of our bbq platform on the upper deck. Below the bbq is a refrigerator, and aft of that is storage (propane tank above, locker below). It is forward of the arch and therefore under the bimini, which has yet to be completed.

We are in the process of commissioning a new H38 sedan in Seattle. I don't care for dinghies on the swim platform unless you are doing the Great Loop and have no concerns about running in a nasty sea. So we are installing a 700#-capaity crane and stowing the dinghy on removable chocks on the...

Hi John, Can you give me a link to that system? We have a rear camera and an 8" screen on Kaloa, with secondary cameras looking at the swim platform and the engine room. But the monitor is too small for doing anything other than seeing a WA State ferry about to run you over or noticing smoke in...

Pacific NW, Puget Sound to Glacier Bay.