As often as I’ve been, I continue to find the culture, history, landscape and food of both China and Taiwan, positively enthralling. I routinely tell my clients, having a boat built should be satisfying, gratifying and even fun, if it’s not then something is wrong.įinally, if you do resolve to have a vessel built in Asia, you should visit the yard during the construction process at least once, but preferably several times, and when doing so, do not miss the opportunity to see some of the region. The more hands-on you are, both before committing to the build and during construction, the greater the likelihood that you will be satisfied with the end result. However, and this is true of any boat builder, foreign or domestic, as a buyer you must carefully outline your expectations, while immersing yourself in as many of the details as possible, like the aforementioned issue of establishing the difference between bronze and brass, and when and where each can be used. The Asian boat builders I work with on a regular basis are professionals to the core, and having been accepted into their fraternity (after nearly 100 trips to the region), I’ll reiterate that working with them is very gratifying indeed. Thus, the more detailed the design, engineering, schematics and specifications, the less that is left to chance, or shop floor interpretation. For these and other reasons, it’s important to fully understand the yard’s level of expertise for issues of this sort, of which there is a seemingly endless list. For instance, the words for “brass” and “bronze”, can both translate into the same Chinese phrase, “yellow metal”, with potentially disastrous results, as one of these is suited for raw water, and the other is not.
Having said all that, building overseas, and in Asia in particular, can present some challenges as well, with the predictable language barrier being among the most significant.
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Much to my surprise, the language barrier did not even begin to stifle the volume, and technical depth, of the questions being asked at one point we delved into the intricacies of anti-siphon valves for a full 15 minutes. Delivering technical lectures is something I do on a regular basis, however, doing so with Chinese translation is slightly more challenging, and interesting. There’s something to be said for working with a yard that has hundreds of hulls to their name, and collectively hundreds of years of experience on the shop floor.Īt one yard I delivered two technical lectures, one on seacocks and raw water plumbing and another on electrical systems, to craftsmen preparing to build a vessel for my client both the client and I wanted to be sure they fully understood the technical standards we were establishing for this project and education seemed like the right solution. In most cases, when I challenge them to meet a standard or installation request, or identify a defect, they always seem to find workable solutions. In the latter case, all of the yards I worked with on this trip are at the top of their game, having been around for decades, they are all experienced and savvy their staffs are sharp and eager to both learn and please, and they rarely use that dreaded boat building word, “no”. Having a vessel built overseas presents both challenges and opportunities. Several will utilize lithium iron phosphate battery banks. During these visits I reviewed vessels in various stages of completion, from fresh out of the mold, to just months away from completion, from 55 to 96 feet, power and sail. Additional options include specifying a default layer for all content played within a playlist ensuring that content made for a specific screen is never played anywhere else.Not surprisingly, I’m writing the final ‘From the Masthead’ column of the year while in flight, on my way from Asia back to the US having just completed a three-week trip, in which I visited yards in China and Taiwan. Because the target sets that you build are global throughout the application, you can easily change target sets on any given layer at any time and save this mapping as part of the cue so content always plays exactly the way you want it. This allows for fine-tuned design of content across rotated screens, screens of various shapes, and odd aspect ratios. The media triggered in any layer can be mapped to one or more screens… either full screen or within one or more targets (rectangle, polygon, circle, bezier path).
That means you can connect as many displays as your computer can handle, including graphics-direct (DVI, HDMI, VGA), broadcast (SDI), network-based (NDI, Syphon) outputs, or any combination therein. PVP3 is a multi-screen, multi-layer video playback and processing tool.
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