Friendship
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February 18, 2009Songtau Friendship 53: A Resonant TuneIn form, function, and execution, naval architect Ted Fontaine's elegant Friendship 53, Songtao, strikes all the right chords. In "Yachtstyle" from our February 2009 issue
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February 4, 2005Hinckley DS42, Morris 36, Friendship 40: The New Sailing MachinesThe Hinckley DS42, the Morris 36, and the Friendship 40 are hardly simple, traditional daysailers, but each melds the most appealing of the old with the practical of the new to create windships for spontaneous shorthanded sailing.
Electronic Updates
Above is Raymarine's new RayControl app running on my iPad1 and the screen is purposely busy because I was trying to stress it. While a NMEA 2000 data simulator tells the test e7 MFD it's going 40 knots up the Bay with one chart window Head Up in 3D and the other North Up, I could still sit in my office -- 40 feet and a "deck" away -- and select/display a tide station with my finger without a noticeable lag. I did manage to crash the app's WiFi connection to the e7 once, but Ray actually ...
