Our anemometers serve a number of different industries, from wind farms and construction sites (cranes) to outdoor events rigging, freight ships, and aerospace. The cool thing about this particular customer, Horizon Shipping, is that they took the time to document our anemometer’s operation during a storm that hit very high winds with a short video. Horizon Shipping has been a customer for several years, having purchased their first wireless wind speed system from us back in 2013, for their ship, the Horizon Anchorage.
The Horizon Anchorage regularly carries freight back and forth through choppy seas from the continental US to Alaska. The Master of the Horizon Anchorage, Brad, sent several photos and videos of our wind speed system in operation during some high wind scenarios. Below is the mounting of the self-powered wireless sensor, being checked out by a couple of the ship’s favorite avian visitors.
The Horizon Anchorage’s two favorite bald eagles, Nagai and Dutch, inspecting the Anemometer Installation, and just generally keeping a watch on the storm.
Below are two action packed videos of our wireless wind speed system at work on the Horizon Anchorage during high ocean winds of 107 MPH. The first video shows the ship rolling through the tumultuous ocean swells and spray. The second video shows our receiver display Model 201-916 giving real time wind speed readings.
One thing to note. The wind speed and direction indicated on the display is referred to as the apparent wind, as it is the algebraic sum of the ship’s velocity and the wind velocity. Imagine cruising at 12 mph straight into a headwind of 12 mph. The anemometer will, of course, indicate 24 mph. Today’s GPS systems are built to unravel this. We demonstrated just such a setup at the Boston Boat show a few years back. It was as simple as plugging the Etesian base unit via a serial cable into a Garmin marine GPS. The GPS knows the ships velocity, and does the math to calculate the true winds. The GPS will display both true and apparent winds.
We hope you enjoy these videos. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about our wireless wind speed systems. We would love to hear from you.
