The seats are made by Shockwave, they are used on military boats all over the world. They say one has never failed. We do have a way to pin them in place and we have some energy absorbers that look like a orange construction cone that we can put under the seat and they will act like a progressive shock. Tyson

The hatches will be gas shock for normal use and then we have a bar that will pin in like on the v-bottom for if were in high winds or seas. Tyson
At the Miami boat show I found some gloves/sleeves for fishing that are really thin that are cut proof and fireproof but still can feel what your doing.
The boat is separated to three places forward and backward, and separated left to right. I have bilge pumps in the back compartments and in the front compartments. Tyson
When we did the Bermuda run we put some clear grip tape down each side and in the middle. That way we could take it back off for normal use like poker runs. We wear our shoes on our boats, just make sure there are no rocks in the tread and they will not hurt the paint. We have tested different shoes on wet paint with a weight in the shoe to see what angle it will hold and the Sperry Kingfisher was the best we tested. Boating magazine has also done this test.
http://www.boatingmag.com/gear/boati...sts-boat-shoes
And for socks to walk on the boat with instead of shoes we are having made some socks with little rubber pads all over the bottom of them to give to everyone on the boat to get traction and not worry about the deck being hot. (We will eventually start selling these) We will also have a harness that we can put on and clip into hooks on the boat. Tyson
Gulf coast data is the system we are using for g forces, they have 3d shock sensors. we will be measuring shock load on us, and then one mounted to seat base to see the difference the seat makes. and a sensor at the back between the engines. Tyson

Thanks for answering my questions. I'm really impressed by what you're putting into this build. Can't wait to see the rigging.

It might be good for us to talk offline about seats and failures, I have some experience with them. Let me know how to get in touch if you're interested, or I can drop Chris an email. Brad

Do you have the drive mounted pretty high or is the way the picture is taken.

The Back of the ball socket is around 3/4" up from the bottom. It has to clear the water and not drag when boat is slightly tilted up. Normally the ball socket would be 1/2" - 5/8" up from the bottom but we have a 6" stand off so we raised it another 1/4"

this may give you a better angle, and the other pic is why we made the bussle the length that we did, if you were moving forward at any speed at all and fell off the back you would clear the prop and for changing props I can lower the prop straight down to the prop shaft.

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Maybe it's been answered, but what type of communications devices will you have on board to contact other ships if you're in trouble especially if you're in the middle of nowhere Indian Ocean?

That's perfect (but you already knew that). It looks higher in that picture.

Did you stay with about a 7 degree down angle on the ball socket or did you shallow it up a bit.

What a cool venture - I hope you have some good sponsors for all of this...

The socks you mentioned... hospital gripper socks.....

I used to use them when I was helping do boat inspections with OPA. they look dorky but they work great.

One of the best threads on any forum to date. Thanks again for the quick "skater tow" couple years back! (42 Fountain Aqua Fin cove) Wish you guys best of luck!! Thanks again!

Without a doubt!! This is the OSO I miss....