The owners of this Lagoon 450F catamaran came to us a couple of years ago with a very annoying issue. Despite a quite strong existing inox pole for their Eclectic Energy d400 wind generator, supported by 3 stainless steel legs, they encountered lots of vibrations. In fact, they told us that their guests, trying to sleep in the back cabin just beneath it, could barely remain polite about this issue 🙂
This unit is among the most popular, both for its high output and its reputation for silent operations, so it was indeed an installation concern which we were challenged to solve.
Given its location, completely at the back of the Port side hull, it seemed like a difficult task to improve the pole’s fixation. At first, we though about building a custom carbon-fiber support beneath the deck, to strengthen the three existing fixations arms. But before going into this direction, which would imply difficult and long under-deck work, our inox technician suggested we tried a smarter solution, by creating a 4rth fixation arm, nearly orthogonal to the 3 existing ones, and connected to Lagoon’s very strong roof-supporting angle inox pole.
3 photos to check it out.
Being installed over 2,2 m high, this new arm didn’t come at all in the way of the back circulation around the cockpit, and it did solve the vibration issues.
In fact, the owners were so happy about this smart solution — and not an expensive one — that a few weeks later, they sent us this photo of their d400 wind generator as they were passing by the famous Villa Malaparte, in Capri.
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