Squeaky clean water is achieved with sand and carbon filtration and chloride dosing purification systems. The UV light setup is for eradicating...
Dirty water of various types are handled by the RWO and Hamann custom bilge water separator and blackwater systems.
Steel plates are adhesive affixed to tanks for sound attenuation. This application was created in the design stage although I haven’t extrapolated...
Or for a close-up and in-person look, there are 30 hatches in the soles throughout the yacht to give access to inspection plates, hatches, or senders.
Tanks alot! A total of 18 tanks are built into the hull for holding various liquids, including 8 fuel tanks for the 9,000 gallon diesel capacity....
Two sea chests are in the engine room and a third is in the adjacent pump room for the fire fighting system. Water ingress is for sure minimized...
The steering wheel is a direct connect to the rudder rams. The aft facing camera, open transom door, or telephone headsets help the captain with...
The aft deck hatch entry gives fast access to the emergency steering station and engine room ingression in case the transom or starboardside doors...
The easiest walk-in access is from the transom watertight door. On the starboard sidedeck, protected by the walkway overhang, is another...
There are 5 watertight bulkheads on this ship with the preeminent watertight compartment being the engine room. Access to the engine room is via...
An extension from both the port and starboard side of the aft deck provides an area convenient for tossing or receiving lines from a dockhand, as...
The lockers are air circulated with moisture withdrawing suction so dock lines stay dry when stowed. It’s also a nice place to stow shoes instead...
The aft deck steering station is well set up for Mediterranean docking or any three-toot maneuvering.
The double lockers, well separated by vented solid wooden panels, include bilge pumps and excellent finishes to best assure tangle free anchoring...
Down the hatch! I did. And beyond this heavy-duty waterproof mechanical beauty, I discovered two chain lockers. Two Muir hydraulic winches haul...
... or by the squiggles on the chartplotter.
The tight turning radius of the Explorer is shown by the track she left behind...
The sound diminution running gear consists of Rubber Design grease lubricated shafts in an oil filled housing with a Trydo double hydraulic ram...
Cathodic protection? Gottcha covered. Aside from the 27 anodes in the engine room and the #1 & 2 pencil zincs, there are 4 zincs on the rudders,...
DETAILS To cross any and all oceans, minimum of 5,000nm range with a cruise speed of 10 knots, necessitated creating a yacht with high levels of...