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FPB 78-1: Workshop, Steering and Fuel Details
Is this crew quarters, lazarette, engine room, or workshop? For us it might be considered all or some of the preceding. Right now it is going to be the workshop we always dreamed of having, with...
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FPB 78-1 Plumbing Refinements: Being Ready To Switch Course
Modern yachts are amazingly complex, with numerous interrelated and conflicting requirements. What makes this game so interesting is the enormous intellectual challenge that exists to get the details...
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FPB 78-1: Critical Phase Visit Last Day
With a project as massive and complex as the FPB 78, there are times when we ask ourselves why we are still doing this. After all, we could have been cruising on Wind Horse these past three years....
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Once In A Blue Moon Deal – Only for SetSailors
As Steve & Linda begin to simplify their lives in preparation for going cruising again, they are eliminating the online store. With this in mind, we are offering a special package just for...
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Plumbing the Depths, Or Not, With FPB 78-1
You are looking at a sea-change in the way we do raw water for the engines. In the past we have always employed a large through hull or partial sea-chest with a manifold below the waterline. All the...
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Wicked FPB 97 Ups Her Smooth Water Record: A Few Thoughts On Props, Froude...
Iceberg has just tried out her new propellers, this time without “interceptor” strips, and she has pushed her smooth water maximum speed to 15.0672 knots, the average of GPS readings in two...
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FPB 78 Matrix Deck Updated
With the very last of the FPB shop drawings nearing completion, we will bring you up to date in a number of areas over the next week. Let’s start with the Matrix deck. This is both a working area for...
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FPB Resale Value: The Brokerage Market & Berthon Int’l
In the fall of 2008, having visited Greenland and Ireland, we were looking for a place to store FPB 83 Wind Horse for the winter. Several of our cruising friends recommended that we talk to Berthon in...
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Pam Wall: Welcome to the FPB Family
The universe of circumnavigators is a small world. It’s not unusual to meet somebody in an anchorage or a far-off port, spend a few days together, form a strong bond borne of common interests, meet up...
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FPB 78 Aft Deck Evolution And Final Design
The aft end of the FPB 78 has gone through a design evolution, a benefit of the 3D design process and working with two very experienced owners. We’ll do a post on that process at a later time. For...
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FPB 78 Update: We’ve Got Sole (in the engine room)
We’ve got sole in the engine room, and it is ever so cool and functional. Consider: Good visibility of bilges and everything they contain. Lightweight, easily removed when necessary for inspection and...
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FPB 78-1 Exterior Renders Updated
Following are a series of helicopter and then dinghy level renders of FPB 78-1. The details shown are pretty close to how the boat will look when she is finally launched. There will be two dinghies...
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FPB 78 – Making The Hard Stuff Easy
We discovered long ago that a key part to agreeable yacht ownership is systems efficiency and access. The FPB 78 takes us closer to perfection in this regard than ever before. Consider the now...
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Sony Full Frame Mirrorless Cameras: We Continue To Be Amazed
The new Sony A7R2 42 MP camera body is truly a breakthrough. There is nothing remotely close to its capabilities of which we are aware. The lead photo of the eclipse last week was shot using a Canon...
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The Best Thing About Cruising, Old Friends, And A Few Days In Fiji
There are many wonderful things about the cruising lifestyle. But the one we love the most is making new friends. We are in Denerau, Fiji, visiting with Jim and Cheryl Schmidt, who we first met in...
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Plumbing the Depths, Or Not, With FPB 78-1
You are looking at a sea-change in the way we do raw water for the engines. In the past we have always employed a large through hull or partial sea-chest with a manifold below the waterline. All the...
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FPB 78 Update: Putting Things In Perspective – Maintenance, Storage, And Lots...
A quick report from New Zealand, starting with what is at the top of our list for successful cruising. At the top of our list is systems reliability and ease of maintenance. That includes getting the...
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FPB 78 Dream Team Part One
We’ve been blessed over the years with the good fortune to work with many great owners and marine professionals, and with the FPB 78 design and build cycle this has continued in a unique...
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FPB 78 Custom Jewelry
You are looking at as lovely a piece of yachting jewelry as has ever been afloat. The creation of Circa’s Larry Brown, this is the inboard end of the new FPB boom control strut. It starts with a pair...
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FPB 78 -Thanksgiving 2015
We’ve been gently reminded that new content has been lacking – our feeble excuse is that we have been swamped. As it is Thanksgiving weekend and we have much for which to be thankful, a pause for a...
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