Sailing Yacht
48.42m (159ft)
S/Y Thalia
48.42m (159ft)
Project Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Liquid Automation installed a system on the ship that facilitates users’ access to multiple AV sources and the viewing of Navigation Displays. This system includes a High Definition DVD/CD server, a high-power PTZ mast camera, and a PTZ Thermal Imaging night vision camera equipped with an LCD ‘finger follow’ control.
Glass Bridge Navigation for six Pilothouse and two Outdoor Helm locations. It includes a high-definition 40-inch flat LCD panel for creating passageway waypoints. Inputs are from Radar, Sonar, two Noble Tec, five CCTV cameras, and a Thermal Imaging camera.
Entertainment is available in the Saloon, Theatre, Owner’s Suite, Owner’s Office, three Guest Cabins, Gym, Pilothouse, Cockpit Theatre, Aft Deck, Captain’s Cabin, and Crew Mess.
Control
Eight Crestron 2-way RF LCD panels, fixed wall-mounted controls, and a Crestron interface for custom waterproof helm control stations. Additionally, eight Sonos Crestron music servers and local input controllers are included.
Video Server
Kaleidescape High Definition 1.5 TB video server with 5 video locations.
Music Server
Crestron 1 TB audio server with 12 separate audio zones.
Audio
Marantz Home Theatre systems, combined with SpeakerCraft in-ceiling speakers and Velodyne subwoofers, are used throughout the yacht. Saloon and Guest deck areas use an 8 x 250W Lab Gruppen power amp.
Visual
A variety of 17″-52″ LCD TVs
Custom-made Tasman projector screen
NEC Projector
Thermal Camera
Carlise & Finch/Flir 1000/2000 feet detection with Crestron ‘finger follow’ control. Excellent man overboard at night tool.
Spotlight
Carlisle & Finch “Nightfinder” combined a 15 million candle power spotlight with Crestron ‘finger follow’ control.
Features
Automatic fault reporting back to Liquid Automation for a variety of situations such as amp faults, speaker faults and high rack temperatures.
Ability to switch off all automatic system downloads from the Pilothouse LCD while the ship is on a Satellite data link.
Global control of all outside navigation displays via helm control for brightness and power-off commands.
Single button muting of outside speakers for Helmsman operation in times of emergency.
Automatic zone shutdown if the rack temperature exceeds a maximum predefined temperature.
Ability to view all Navigation information, such as Radar, Chart Plotter and Sonar, etc, from all video locations in native High Definition.
Cameras/Spotlight control where the camera will follow the user’s finger as it moves over the Crestron wireless touch panel.
Outdoor theatre located in the Guest Cockpit.