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Good luck, Skip! Looking forward to following your progress. Here are some pix of Hull #2, double cabin. .

No battery issues, new boat with 880ah AGMs, but perhaps a connection isn't secured properly. Entire nav system is Raymarine via Raymarine bus but other systems reporting over NMEA. Thanks for the suggestion, will check connections for any signs of wobbliness.

We have a new Evo, with a rudder sensor. I will check the firmware vs the latest version, thanks for the tip. I have run through the calibration at the dock twice, and got two different results; one a lock to lock of 16.7 sec and now a lock to lock of 12.5 sec. I will take the boat out and do a...

I am having comparable problems with our new boat, which has a Raymarine Type 1 pump. The autopilot works fine in flat water where small rudder corrections are effective. But in a seaway, with the bow being knocked around, we end up hunting with 30-degree swings to either side of the course...

DMS said that the vulnerable part was the knuckle where the rotation occurs. The deflector we mounted was basically a clamshell shape about 4" high just forward of the unit. The concern was small log strikes. It'd bounce stuff to one side or the other or over the rotor itself. Nothing can be...

We went with the arch for the real estate and ease of routing solar panel wiring from the associated bimini top. It hinges down, but we don't plan on lowering it since all of our plans are NW coastal and offshore.

Sorry but the photo of the unit with the rotor isn't from our boat, it was from NSM's. Scott sent it to me to indicate the location of a deflector we were putting forward of the rotor. Apologies. I don't seem to have a photo of the installed rotor. This shows the location relative to the...

Here are a few images of the installation of a single rotor on our H38S.

I don't think that's accurate. Helmsman hulls are semi-displacement, with a flatter aft section that let's them get past hull speed, given sufficient horsepower (and willingness to accept the increased fuel consumption). I agree, sweet spot for speed and fuel consumption should be 7.5-8.0 for...

Our solution is to place the panels on the bimini forward of the arch.

Two views of our bbq platform on the upper deck. Below the bbq is a refrigerator, and aft of that is storage (propane tank above, locker below). It is forward of the arch and therefore under the bimini, which has yet to be completed.

We are in the process of commissioning a new H38 sedan in Seattle. I don't care for dinghies on the swim platform unless you are doing the Great Loop and have no concerns about running in a nasty sea. So we are installing a 700#-capaity crane and stowing the dinghy on removable chocks on the...

Hi John, Can you give me a link to that system? We have a rear camera and an 8" screen on Kaloa, with secondary cameras looking at the swim platform and the engine room. But the monitor is too small for doing anything other than seeing a WA State ferry about to run you over or noticing smoke in...

Pacific NW, Puget Sound to Glacier Bay.

Preview Here is a teaser view of the second H38 sedan, which should ship in early January. Nick's H38S01 is single cabin version, our H38S02 is a dual cabin version. The interior layout is similar to what's shown on the website. Stretching the cabin by 2' created space forward of the salon...

Has the boat made it to Seattle? What was the shipping time in the end?

The magical properties of solid copper (as opposed to ionic) are highly overrated. Our last boat (sail) had two long solid copper bars, 1/4"x2", one 10' and the other 20', as ground strips for lightning protection of the masts. The bare copper was a fouling magnet, and they were invariably...

We ordered ours too, thanks for putting it together.

Here is a Duck at least as big, which has all of the features the Turkish boat lacks: https://www.strannikoceanvoyages.com She was built in the Seahorse yard under close supervision and has been all over the Western Pacific. No problem with airiness and light below. Our Duck was built in Quebec...

How did you phrase your inquiry? Marinas that do not allow liveaboards may welcome transient cruisers who are living aboard, even if they stay for a couple of weeks. We had no problems anywhere on the Great Loop, including the SE. That was in 2017; have policies changed radically since then?

I will join the chorus advising you not to do it at all. First, because of the risk of sinking. We once had a nylon line burst inside a bulkhead and flooded the engine room. On another boat we had copper piping I tried hooking up at a marina where town water pressure spiked to over 140psi...

The other elephant in the room is the fact that many TF-style boats are owned by Boomers, and the Great Pruning is underway. Meanwhile, fewer and fewer young folk are growing up boating and dreaming of exploring waterways on their own boats. The used boat inventory is only going to grow larger...

If you zoom in on this you can see how our paravane poles are set up. The poles are 4" aluminum pipe set in stainless base plates that are through bolted into the steel hull. There is only one spectra line/shroud to the tip of each pole. A second spectra line ends in an eye that the pole shroud...

As someone awaiting delivery on a new H38 sedan, this thread is very unsettling. Please continue updating as to progress and decisions about legal avenues available. My only other note is that Tony Athens is a terrific resource and great to work with. He's helped us out several times over the...