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The Dashews, a couple who design offshore boats (sail and power), after a few years of experimentation, ended up coming to a similar design for their navigation

The Dashews, a couple who design offshore boats (sail and power), after a few years of experimentation, ended up coming to a similar design for their navigation station their FPB line of powerboats: * https://setsail.com/rethinking_modern_nav-2-2/ https://setsail.com/rethinking_modern_nav-2-2/ May not be able to do this on the deck of a traditional sailboat where things are exposed to the elements, but in an enclosed wheelhouse it adds a lot of flexibility, especially with modern the NMEA 2000 data bus and various vendor 'black boxes' (or leverage a Raspberry Pi), e.g.: * https://mvdirona.com/2016/09/maretron-n2kview-on-dirona/ https://mvdirona.com/2016/09/maretron-n2kview-on-dirona/ Aside: the owner of the above linked Dirona is James Hamilton, VP & Distinguished Engineer at Amazon.

blamazon 5y ago
Wow. I am blown away by the photos in that FPB link. I'm not a boat person but it's unlike any boat pilot house I have seen before. A great room indeed.
- throw0101a 5y ago
  The Dashews seems to regularly think 'out of the box'. They took their decades of experience in sailboat design, especially to hull shapes, and applied them to a power boat (so they could continue to travel in old/er age): * https://setsail.com/the-concept-explained/ https://setsail.com/the-concept-explained/ * https://setsail.com/intro-to-fpb-program/ https://setsail.com/intro-to-fpb-program/ * https://setsail.com/category/fpb-78/ https://setsail.com/category/fpb-78/ YT channel: * https://www.youtube.com/user/DashewOffshore https://www.youtube.com/user/DashewOffshore A tour of one of their earlier sailboat designs that is/was for sale recently: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDxYkSI710 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDxYkSI710
throwra620 5y ago
walrus01 5y ago
I'm skeptical how well that display on the left side of the nav-2-2 URL holds up for visibility under direct powerful sunlight. Even if it's a very expensive model.
rasz 5y ago
Looks great until the first big wave weather where you lose ground and lean on/kick the big shiny TV losing all the telemetry.

blamazon 5y ago

Wow. I am blown away by the photos in that FPB link. I'm not a boat person but it's unlike any boat pilot house I have seen before. A great room indeed.

throw0101a 5y ago
The Dashews seems to regularly think 'out of the box'. They took their decades of experience in sailboat design, especially to hull shapes, and applied them to a power boat (so they could continue to travel in old/er age): * https://setsail.com/the-concept-explained/ https://setsail.com/the-concept-explained/ * https://setsail.com/intro-to-fpb-program/ https://setsail.com/intro-to-fpb-program/ * https://setsail.com/category/fpb-78/ https://setsail.com/category/fpb-78/ YT channel: * https://www.youtube.com/user/DashewOffshore https://www.youtube.com/user/DashewOffshore A tour of one of their earlier sailboat designs that is/was for sale recently: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDxYkSI710 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDxYkSI710

throwra620 5y ago

walrus01 5y ago

I'm skeptical how well that display on the left side of the nav-2-2 URL holds up for visibility under direct powerful sunlight. Even if it's a very expensive model.

rasz 5y ago

Looks great until the first big wave weather where you lose ground and lean on/kick the big shiny TV losing all the telemetry.