{"id":31498,"date":"2024-09-16T01:12:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31498"},"modified":"2024-09-26T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:41:57","slug":"sv-ruffian-of-amble-fiona-iain-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/blog\/blogs\/sv-ruffian-of-amble-fiona-iain-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"SV Ruffian Of Amble &#8211; Fiona + Iain Lewis UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WESTERLY OCEAN LORD 41 &#8211; MESSAGE FROM PARADISE<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_16.jpg 960w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_16-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_25-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_25-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_25-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_25-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_14_25.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Peter,<br \/>\nAfter our most recent passages we just wanted to send a mail to you with a massive thank you for both all your support in getting our windpilot working and for creating such an amazing steering system.<\/p>\n<p>After lots of &#8218;playing&#8216; with the pilot we have finally got to grips with how it works and have had 600 miles of the most ideal sailing<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_04_28_09-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_04_28_09-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_04_28_09-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_04_28_09-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_04_28_09.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>with it. When the pilot is deployed the motion of the boat feels much less frenetic than under autopilot, there is no power use and as it uses a different quadrant from our autopilots we have another level of redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot express just how impressed we are with how it works and how Ruffian feels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_26_17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_26_17-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_26_17-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_26_17-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24_06_26_17.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Thanks again.<br \/>\nIain &#038; Fiona<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ruffian.uk\/2024\/06\/fakarava-philharmonic\/\">SY Ruffian of Amble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERLY OCEAN LORD 41 &#8211; MESSAGE FROM PARADISE Peter, After our most recent passages we just wanted to send a mail to you with a massive thank you for both all your support in getting our windpilot working and for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/blog\/blogs\/sv-ruffian-of-amble-fiona-iain-lewis\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,42,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-blue-water","category-windpilot","category-word-of-mouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31498","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=31498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31506,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31498\/revisions\/31506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}