{"id":24991,"date":"2021-05-23T02:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/?p=24991"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:52:37","slug":"sv-bravo-matias-eli-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/blog\/word-of-mouth\/sv-bravo-matias-eli-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"SV Bravo &#8211; Matias Eli Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SOLO CIRCUMNAVIGATION ON JUDEL FROLIC 45<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image0.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nDear Peter, My name is Matias Eli, and I\u2019m the owner of BRAVO, a J&#038;V design build in Brazil in the late 80\u2019.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have the boat for almost 16 years and completed a single handle around the world between 2008 and 2010 thanks to my dear friend PACIFIC. Thank you for that and congratulations. It is fantastic, almost magic.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image1.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image1-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>I sailed under very hard conditions with lots of wind and almost no wind, reaching and down wind, and the pilot always worked well. However I felt that the \u201ccourse\u201d is to limites, my ruder is big and the maximum steering was 15 degrees each side, so in general my sails needed to be reduced to a minimum for it to work.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FudelFrolic-45-large-wheel-Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"1286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FudelFrolic-45-large-wheel-Kopie.jpg 964w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FudelFrolic-45-large-wheel-Kopie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FudelFrolic-45-large-wheel-Kopie-768x1025.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/>I\u2019m thinking of ways to improve it performance by either using a smaller drum attached to the ruder. Does it make sense (is needed I could increase the size of the rudder).<br \/>\nIn addition I need to do a mantainance, changing all bushings and some other parts.<br \/>\nIf possible I would like to have a quick chat with you do discuss the best solution and also to purchase a repair kit<br \/>\nThanks<br \/>\nMatias from Salo Paolo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOLO CIRCUMNAVIGATION ON JUDEL FROLIC 45 Dear Peter, My name is Matias Eli, and I\u2019m the owner of BRAVO, a J&#038;V design build in Brazil in the late 80\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-of-mouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991","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=24991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24995,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991\/revisions\/24995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}