Pilot House
I have three different computers, running the nav software (Maxsea), the monitoring system (Simon) and "communications" (Skymate, Fleet 77, Syrens, Cruisenet). All of these, plus everyone's laptops around the boat, have access to a shared Buffalo Terastation.

Pilot House
This is my office, in the back of the pilot house. The standard 68 comes with a restroom here. I've seen 76s that created full captain's quarters in the back of the pilot house. I thought about that, in case we ever have crew someday, but decided to give myself a nice place to work. A tough decision.

Pilot House
We hid most of the electronics equipment beneath the settee (couch? seating area?, built-in seating?, whatever...) in the pilot house. Here you see (barely) the rack that was built to house the satellite receivers. We are using two receivers; one for the master stateroom, and one for the rest of the boat. This is multiplied by three because we are also carrying sets of receivers, all set to go, for north america, south america and europe.

Pilot House
This is the 12 volt/24 volt electric panel in the pilot house.

There are four different voltages in use around the boat:

220v ac
110v ac
24v dc
12v dc

Many of the electronics, such as the radios, require 12v dc. Thus, there is a 12v battery, and a 12v battery charger, sitting just behind this electric panel.

Pilot House
This controller will be built into the console, but is sitting out for now. It's cooler than shows in this picture. The Simon monitoring system is monitoring 200+ sensors around the boat at all times. The system is smart and will change the color of this controller based on how everything looks. If all is well, it is a nice steady white. If there are things that merit attention, it blinks yellow. If something is seriously wrong it blinks red, and an audible alarm goes off.

Pilot House
This is under the couch in the pilot house. More electronic gear -- this time video switchers. I would do much of the design differently, and simpler, if I had it to do over again. Currently, I have MANY different electronic devices that generate video: 3 computers, the black box radar, 8 cameras, the Navnet system, 6 sat tv receivers, 5 kaleidescape media system players and more - but, only three displays. Thus, there are video switchers so that I can decide which device gets which display.

Pilot House
The helm chairs are still not installed in the pilot house. They said that these are the very last thing to go in. Here, you can see all the protective cardboard and padding.

Galley
Until they put a Starbucks every couple of blocks around the world (which shouldn't be much longer), us Seattle natives, need to feed our addiction. On our 62 there were two systems which always had to work - the toilets and the expresso machine.

Bow
Here you see our effort to fit two different anchors, which should work, but doesn't. I was trying to turn the Fortress 90 degrees so it wouldn't clang against the plow sitting next to it. No luck. I think we could have somehow made it work, but I made the decision to just stow the Fortress and install it if I ever need it. The extra confusion of futzing with two anchors, that were too close, wasn't going to work.