{"id":16020,"date":"2017-10-11T05:36:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2017-10-11T05:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:36:38","slug":"sv-sila-christopher-barnes-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/blog\/blogs\/sv-sila-christopher-barnes-us\/","title":{"rendered":"SV Sila &#8211; Christopher Barnes US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LIVE ABOARD FAMILY ON A BOREAL 47<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-6-26-Isle-d-Er-1st-dry-out-pbb-jlb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-6-26-Isle-d-Er-1st-dry-out-pbb-jlb.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-6-26-Isle-d-Er-1st-dry-out-pbb-jlb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-6-26-Isle-d-Er-1st-dry-out-pbb-jlb-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi Peter<br \/>\nwe are from Colorado US and live on our boat. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-7-22-Sila-dried-out-Isle-de-Batz-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-7-22-Sila-dried-out-Isle-de-Batz-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-7-22-Sila-dried-out-Isle-de-Batz-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-7-22-Sila-dried-out-Isle-de-Batz-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FYI (not a complaint): over 25,000nm we have sailed about 4\/5ths of the time and of that probably 50% was using the WindPilot. So over about 10,000nm: we have just worn out our second set of control lines, did break a Barton pulley, switched to some Harken pulleys with ball bearings which is probably not needed but they are quieter, the plastic T handel on the wheel friction drum released from the bolt inside (re-glued and okay so far), and the double nuts (part153) would slip over time and I replaced one of them with a nylon locking nut and it hasn&#8217;t moved since. No major problems. When it isn&#8217;t steering well it is always sail trimming that \u00a0solves \u00a0to the problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biggest benefit for us is no power as we have a low draw boat with wind and solar but no generator and do not run the engine to charge &#8211; so the WindPilot means that we can sail for a long time (just sailed 7,500nm from South Georgia to Ireland via Ascension, Cape Verdes, and the Azores) without running the engine to charge batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for making such a great product.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers &#8211; Christopher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/svsila.blogspot.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">WEITERLESEN<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVE ABOARD FAMILY ON A BOREAL 47 Hi Peter we are from Colorado US and live on our boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16024,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}