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Deerfoot ll – Time To Part With A Member Of The Family
Deerfoot II, a longtime member of our family, is ready for a new home. She was launched in 1985 in Denmark, sailed across the Atlantic, via the West Indies, and Panama, to Marina del Rey, where she...
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Leaping Into The Future – FPB Progress In The Antipodes
Here in Arizona we’re excited, having received our weekly update of photos from New Zealand. Seeing progress starting to accelerate on the first of three FPB 78s now scheduled, we are leaping for joy....
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Beowulf IV and the Early C-Cat Foil Development
It is a gray, overcast, depressing afternoon – something for which residence in the US Southwest does not prepare its citizens. Since we have received a request for info on Beowulf IV from a...
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A Most Difficult Ocean Passage Coming Up – Playing The Weather Odds In...
The passage between New Zealand and French Polynesia is one of the more difficult ocean crossing endeavors. At 2200 miles along the great circle route, it can often be as long as 2600 or more nautical...
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Spring Is In The Air
Spring is in the air and our southwestern backyard is filled with color, love songs, nest building, and competition for the attention of the fairer sex. It is the one time of year when we’d rather be...
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Weather Forecasting, Storm Tactics & Successful Cruising – Plus An Offer You...
If you are looking for a magic elixir to successful cruising it will not be found in the marine hardware catalogs or boat shows. It will not come with state of the art electronics, or a different...
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Get Ready To Rock-Making the Weather Work For Grey Wolf
It is cyclone season in the South Pacific, the weather is unstable, and Grey Wolf may win the weather lottery. The recent spate of tropical storms is creating the possibility of a very quick,...
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FPB 78-1 The Dream Machine Is Taking Shape
After all those thousands of design and engineering hours, innumerable three dimensional images, and years of noodling on this ltest FPB series design, you would think we’d be tired of it. But these...
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Hobie Alter – Surfer Dude, Marketing Whiz, Savvy Businessman, and All Around...
We’ve just learned that Hobie Alter has caught the ultimate wave, and left his earthly friends and family behind. We were friends, competitors, and collaborators with this remarkable man, and thought a...
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Weather Forecasts And Routing In The Real World: Good But Not Perfect
We are looking at a barometric pressure trace from the FPB 64 Grey Wolf. This occurred at the edge of the tropics South of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. As you close with the equator slight pressure...
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Is It Better In The Tropics Or High Latitudes?
We are torn between a love for the tropics and the adrenaline that comes as you venture closer to the poles. FPB 64-6 Grey Wolf is now in Tahiti, soon to depart for the Tuamotus and Marquesas. FPB...
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Chasing A Stabilizer Problem Far From Home – A Primer On Teamwork
Last week we worked with Peter Watson aboard the FPB 64 Grey Wolf to resolve a stabilizer system issue. We thought the communications regarding this might be of interest since these things do...
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Cruising in the Olden Days: Crossing the Indian Ocean – The Easy Part
The southern part of the Indian Ocean is one of the few places we have found where the trades blow as advertised… and then some. Intermezzo is shown here departing Christmas Island for Cocos Keeling...
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The Most Difficult of All Yachting Passages – 4000NM Eastbound From The...
Of all the passages you could dream up, the most difficult is the 4000NM eastbound run from the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to Panama. Panama lies dead upwind, with a westerly setting...
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FPB Construction Update- FPB 78 Taking Shape while FPB 64-10 and FPB 97-1...
FPB 78-1 is now framed, deck plating is on, and hull plating begins soon. Which is good because we are depressed with this enforced stay on land. While we are toiling, nose to computer, the FPBs are...
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FPB Passage Notes – It Is Ocean Crossing Time
Passaging season is upon us and the FPB fleet is on the move. While FPB 64-6 Grey Wolf nears the end of a quick 4000 NM hop, FPB 64-3 Iron Lady is on her way from Hawaii to British Columbia. The...
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Sarah’s EP / Shows in New York
Life on the water is such a perfect metaphor for the uncertain adventure of opening ourselves up to what we yearn for…We have to navigate carefully, watch the changing weather patterns, think about...
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FPB Systems Log – Maintenance on a Voyage Halfway Around the World
With the FPB 64 Grey Wolf covering an average of a thousand or more nautical miles per week on her voyage home, we have in effect an accelerated maintenance test to observe. Experienced cruisers and...
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FPB 78 Series Construction Update June 20, 2014
The first of the FPB 78 series now has all of its bottom plate in place, a major milestone. A beautifully fair plating job. Minimum bottom thickness throughout the bottom of the hull, to within two...
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FPB 64-6 Grey Wolf Is At Anchor Havlet Bay, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Having traveled halfway around the world in three months, Peter Watson and crew have brought FPB 64-6 Grey Wolf to anchor in the Channel Islands. We don’t have a voyage recap yet, but what we do know...
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