Halvorsen 57 custom
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Nice looking setup Chris. Your previous dingy location looked somewhat precarious! The new one will work really well, and I guess you would normally have to use a 20m berth in a marina, and probably will still fit in one even with the platform.
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Hi Brian,
Yes we are really pleased with the new set up and the ease of use. We still fit in the same pen and rates are still the same ....... At present!
The distribution of the weight is also a benefit and we can notice the difference in the motion both underway and at rest. We find we are using the tender more as we can launch it in a minute or two and retrieve it in under a minute and raise it up out of the way, and get moving.
I was going to contact you as I notice a new hardtop to the flying Bridge and a new mast ? They look great and I was interested where you sourced your mast from ? Is it a Selene mast ?
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The hardtop is the same one I had custom built in the USA before importing. The mast is the original one. Back when there was a bimini, the mast base was on the flybridge sole, and it had a hinge joint about halfway for lowering. The hardtop had a recess/cutout for the mast which still came off the sole.
What I did last year was cut the mast off just below the hinge, and then lift the top half up to mount it onto the hardtop. That lifted the mast up by about 750mm, enough for us to add a new radar platform. I used the old radar platform for the sat dome. It turned out quite well, and the mast can still be lowered if necessary. The pic shows the setup, with the tall VHF antennae lowered to avoid shading the solar panels.
This all came about by the need to relocate the sat dome so I could move my solar panels forward by 600mm and reduce shading of them by the hardtop. That has been a success too, solar is giving great output.
What I did last year was cut the mast off just below the hinge, and then lift the top half up to mount it onto the hardtop. That lifted the mast up by about 750mm, enough for us to add a new radar platform. I used the old radar platform for the sat dome. It turned out quite well, and the mast can still be lowered if necessary. The pic shows the setup, with the tall VHF antennae lowered to avoid shading the solar panels.
This all came about by the need to relocate the sat dome so I could move my solar panels forward by 600mm and reduce shading of them by the hardtop. That has been a success too, solar is giving great output.
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Hi Brian,
It is well thought out and executed. Looks very smart .... I like it !
Cheers Chris D
