Thanks BJB. I had a couple of those random flypasts in the st Tropez area last year, plus the BBS/Top Gear material, so I ended up with loads of helo pictures - a few more are below. The pilot gets so close you can make eye contact and we choreographed the last picture below by waving and hand signals
I already saw this (indeed beautiful!) pic, and I already wondered one thing, but never asked:
I think at the moment that pic was taken the rudders might just have returned to straight - I don't remember 100%. But to answer your question, if you do nothing then as you will know the stabs flatten the boat in a turn, because they're normally programmed just to keep the boat flat. However, Sleipner (and perhaps others) have an accelerometer that measures the turn rate, and this feeds algorithms that let the boat lean in to a turn. The amount of lean in is programmable/selectable via the menus (if you have the passcode to the deep layers of the menu) and mine is set to quite a "light" setting ie just a small bit of lean in, even with a tight turn. This is at the request of the chef: she finds this minimises spillage of whatever is in her saucepans
. I think in that pic the boat is totally flat because you cannot see starboard side antifoul, so the turn had ended and the rudders were straight. I might have other photos in the same set that show the lean in - I'll look another pc when I get home tonight
Thanks Mike. Your new ferretti was quite a machine too! I must make another thread with pictures from August when I get the time but meantime here are a couple of pics from when we were both anchored off Mortorio t'other week.
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