The display area of the helm is installed! As I said in a previous post, we have two Garmin MFD (multi function displays) in the middle, with room on the outside for two 19" computer monitors. Here one of the Garmin guys is wiring up the MFDs. Very exciting. Flybridge MFD up and running! Right now the only things on the mast are the radars. We have a big 6' open array traditional magnetron radar. The radar in the 24" dome is one of the new digital doppler radars that use very low power and have incredible target resolution. The low power requirement means we can run it from the inverter, thus using the "guard zone" and other features when at anchor. One of the coolest features is its new MARPA technology. As it acquires targets (i.e. other vessels) it computes their courses and speeds, comparing them to Mahalo's. Targets that have a potential for collision are shown in red, those with no potential are green. Boating is getting safer all the time. Here's the Garmin web page on the radar if you are interested. Well, they didn't get a nice shot of both MFD's displaying their data. But we get a little peekaboo shot here. Going to be awesome seeing Puget Sound displayed.
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All the tests that needed to be done in the water have been completed. Time to come out of the tank and back into the construction building.
Here is the first good picture I have seen of the binocular well (discussed in this blog post). I know we are really going to enjoy having this, it's sized just right for our two sets of bino's. They can't fall out and get broken, and they are readily at hand at all times.
For something totally custom like this, how do they make such a perfect plastic piece? We have a big Steelhead crane on the boat deck to manage our tender deployment. I think it is rated for 1,600 lbs. The tender should come in around 800 lbs.
This crane has a fantastic wireless remote. Should make this process about as easy as it can be. As you can see we can load/unload the tender from the swimstep, as well as from the starboard side. This checkout was also successful. One of the reasons I really like HYG is their equipment checkout. The manufacturer of each major system comes to the factory to verify that their equipment is performing correctly. On this day, the CAT reps were on board. CAT has a big presence in China (they own the Mercedes dealerships there too). It seems like most of the non-Chinese guys are Australians. They have their laptops setup on my workbench and went for it. Success. I'm told everything checked out perfectly.
The crane, stabilizers and generators will go through similar checks, while the boat is in the test tank (obviously you need to be able to cool the engines). |
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