Sunday, January 27, 2008

Interior resolved?

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We think we have the interior issues, the inch here, inch there, finally resolved. These 3D renderings give you a pretty good idea how it ended up. On the left you see the port side of the salon. The big thing missing here is the salon table which will make all this look much smaller than the wide open look it has now.
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The black "TV" will actually be a 30" Apple monitor for watching movies, getting the big picture when we're planing a route, and enjoying Fay's photography. To the right is the starboard side of the salon. The key items are here are the two chairs, our vantage point for watching the big monitor, reading, lounging etc

We've also spent a lot of time on the "watch station". This is the forward end of the port side bench in the cockpit. Snug up under the dodger, it will be where we spend a lot of time on watch.
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The electronics here will include a radar / plotter, autopilot controller and VHF radio. This unit rotates up out of the deck on the port side of the companionway, but of course well under the dodger. It won't actually rotate up as high as is shown here, the bottom of the display will sit at deck level so it doesn't block our visibility out the windows. Standing watch still involves watching the horizon and not just the display.

A couple of pictures of the bow roller from earlier this month are now in the Construction photos.