Stunning. I guess the only reason to leave is to go sailing but…Love the rudder steps. We had them on our Herreshoff and we never had to worry about getting back on board. Whatever negatives there may be are 99.9 percent outweighed by the safety and convenience aspects. Thanks for another awesome view of your lives.
Thanks for the tour of the beautiful hull. Would like a look at the floats too. Chris White gave both specific shapes for seakindlyness. Chris is a highly experienced performance world cruiser which also informs the kick up rudder and retractable centerboard, for better survivability. Thought of a swimming pool before you mentioned it. It's amazing there. Thanks for the prop and shaft reference. Totally agree about nature. A great way to restore our humanity is to spend some time in nature.
What an anchorage. Really interesting contrasting the round bottom of Spirit to the rounded squared off bottom of SV Happy Together's new Kinetic 54 cat that I just watched the haul out of. Round has the least surface area to displacement (least frictional area), at the expense of draft and lift at speed. I remember reading a study on bridgedeck shapes on I think it was a pod cat showing a 45° V shape produced the most even pressure for minimum slamming.
Yeah good points and shapes very important, the question people need to ask is how fast do they really need to go when cruising and how comfortable do they want to be in a seaway. I think the flat bottoms these days aren’t really designed for speed it’s more about volume and weight carrying ability yet they sell it on the fact it’s a faster shape.
Hi there,you are in paradise for sure.👌You can imagine many many years ago,there was far less development world wide,and more ideal places like where you are now.Less technology too,and in some ways harder to survive remotely,for example,no water makers,no free power from the sun etc.There’s good and bad in advancements in technology. Anyway,after all that spiel,best wishes always 🙂
Thanks and yep you’re spot on technology can always be a positive and a negative. It’s sure allowing us to travel far easier than a few years ago the advancements are amazing!
Just wow! How about lowering the board and giving us an underwater tour of the other foil? I thought the rudder steps were the old-style cavitation plates - for stopping air creeping down the trailing edge at high speed. Only because I've used similar on sailboard fins.
Will do when we’re in deep and clear water? For sure those plates on some rudders do help with cavitation and could well do on Spirit however these were predominantly designed from what I’ve been told to be used as steps.
Thanks 🙏 the rudder has a hinge on the forward edge of the rudder cassette that allows it to hinge up. I’ll try and do another more in-depth video soon.
Another great video.The rudder steps are a cool addition. Ill have to go back and watch videos from inside Spirit to see if I can spot the bulkheads supporting the centerboard case, or are they all underfloor and out of sight? I can't imagine how tough it is to realise you'll have to leave that spot sometime.
Yes the centerboard and all the bulkheads are under the main cabin floor so not really shown in any of the videos. Leaving there was tough but we found some pretty spectacular places soon after and had some great sailing 👍🙏
You must have been reading my mind. I really wanted to see an underwater view of Spirit like you took of the last Spirit. Love that rudder design. Is that a rubber gasket on the center board? Beautiful shots.
I watch a lot of these vids an the amazin thing about yours is, WHERES ALL THE PLASTIC GONE!!!??😮😮 Normally there’s some somewhere?? Now that is beautiful! ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧⛵️⛵️⚓️⚓️
For info @ChrisWhiteDesigns just uploaded a long video interview about one of his newer boats, an Atlantic 70F with side by side unstayed masts. Boat name Saphira. Really interesting boat. Chris is the interviewer.
Thanks we’ve just been near these guys and she’s definitely a cool looking boat but I’d love to experience it firsthand as that’s the only way to know how well something works or doesn’t 😁
@@TrimaranSpirit Agree you'd need to sail her to know, but it's good to be aware of her. I don't know if the video is recent or not, but apparently they were winding down their sailing season in French Polynesia, so perhaps you saw them there? Some (much) smaller Aussie cats have side by side rigs with windsurfer style sail rigs, and of course the Hobie Trifoiler was side by side. But a 70 footer with side by side rigs seems unusual. It's designed to be relatively simple to operate singlehanded, and to depower.
