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Self Inflicted is not "every other boat" and she's never going to look like "every other boat."
If people see her 10 years later ... they will remember her (I know this for a fact).
So a lot of care has been taken to build a boat with features that will make your voyages fun, comfortable, and most importantly safe.
This page is a short tour of a few of the custom features you may most enjoy. |
Hurricane Rated Bubble
The top arrow is pointing to a hurricane-rated polycarbonate bubble.
The bubble provides 360 degree visibility from inside the pilot house no matter the weather.
The bubble has been certified to Florida state regulations by surviving two impacts with 8 ft. 2x4s fired into it at 35mph.
A second bubble, still in its original packing box is stored in the bow.
The lower arrow points to the removable hatch. On a nice day remove it and enjoy fresh air or sit on the pilothouse roof and steer from there.
The domes can be purchased at Skylight Sales. |
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Bulletproof Doors
Literally: These doors are like no others you have ever seen or likely will ever see on a sailboat. Custom built to
withstand the rigors of blue water sailing they are built on a welded aluminum frame with windows made from a single piece of 1" thick bullet proof polycarbonate sandwiched between one 1/8"
tempered glass and one 1/8" acrylic pane to protect the polycarbonate from scratching and UV.
A second full sheet of 1" polycarbonate, in its original box, and belongs to the boat.
This first picture is of the port door in the closed position. |
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The port door partially open. |
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The port door fully-open.
You will find more pictures of these doors on the "Pilothouse" page. |
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Pivoting Binnacle
If you want a boat like no other boat on the water ... here's an innovation that will put a smile on your face.
In rough seas you will want to steer from the pilot's seat.
Doing so makes for comfort and safety and provide a secure place to enjoy a cup of coffee with essentially all controls in easy reach.
No need to expend energy hanging on ... no need to wear your oilskins and still have ice cold salt water dripping down your back.
No danger of taking a wave in the face or of being separated from the boat (yes I know everyone wears their harness 100% of time time).
But there's more ... read on: |
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Pivoting Binnacle Facing Starboard
Wouldn't it be nice if you could steer from the port or starboard rail? Just lock the pedestal to the location of your choice and enjoy the view from the windward or leeward side. Now you can
... which is a tremendous convenience when coming into a dock or single-handing into an
anchorage.
Should the hydraulic steering, and the autopilot ever both fail ... something that has never happened to anyone ... there is a
manual tiller ready to connect in the stern. |
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Chart Table
Every blue-water boat I've ever seen has a chart table ... and in a few rare cases it was actually large enough to spread out a
chart.
Self Inflicted puts all navigation instrumentation in the pilot house in front of the pilot so there is no need to leave the wheel
to figure out where you are and no need for the expense of a separate nav. station. This vertical chart holder also serves as the
sliding door to the pilots berth and by protecting the paper chart inside an acrylic holder allows the chart to be
repeatedly marked up and reused. It takes only a minute to change charts or you can fold charts and put two or more in at
the same time. |
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Keel Leading Edge
The leading edge of the keel, and skeg, are the parts of the boat most likely to impact submerged debris.
In most boats this would be a critical concern. This leading edge of Self-Inflicted, as you can see, is schedule 80 galvanized steel pipe:
There are no welds on the leading edge to be damaged. |
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Davits
Never, on any other boat, have I seen davits like these. These davits swing more than 270 degrees.
You can use them to hoist a dinghy, pluck a swimmer from the water, load batteries from the dock, or as an extra hand-hold climbing out of the pilothouse in rough water.
But what I like about them as much as all of the above is that they allow me to shorten the boat, when necessary, to meet the length requirement of a 50 ft. slip.
Here are three pictures showing the port davit straight astern, at 45 degrees hanging over the dock, and fully forward.
On the top of the pilothouse is a #6 Lewmar SS winch that makes even the job of hauling 24 volt batteries aboard in a boatyard a simple task. |
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Steerable Searchlight
Everybody knows power boats have search lights but sailboats do not ... because sailboats, so most people think,
don't have any place high enough off the water to mount one.
Unless that mounting is 23 ft. off the water on a spreader that is. It helps too if the search light is remotely steerable through 370 degrees, tiltable to 135 degrees,
has a battery powered remote, and can be easily pointed forward for anchoring or to spot debris and crab pots, aft to the dinghy, or anywhere on deck for sail handling.
In the picture at right it is pointed to the base of the mast.
The search light is a Golight Model 2049 providing 400,000 Candle Power with a 65W, 5.5Amp draw.
The searchlight controls are on the port side of the pilothouse within easy reach of the steering station. |
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