Tuesday morning finds us wending our way out to open water on Iceberg. A battery of tests are in store: everything from engine load and fuel burn, to optimizing stabilizer settings, checking roll periods, loading alternators, and pretty much anything you can think of in between.It’s a beautiful, clear summer day. Once out in open […]
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Kicking Off 2015 With A Trip Down Under – Posted By Sarah
Summer is kicking into high gear down in Whangarei, New Zealand, and FPB 97-1′s solar panels are humming along (though a seagull does create a little shadow). Todd, Mark Fritzer and I have flown down to do some work with the Circa Team and catch up on our “flat white” addictions… Monday morning finds us […]
Don’t Wait – Do It Now
Waiting is never easy, and when it is for the next big thing in your life – in our case what we think is our ultimate cruising machine – it is even harder. From a design and scheduling standpoint the march of time conflicts with the goal of getting every detail right. This is impossible of […]
FPB Yachts 2015 Calendar Now Available
Thanks to the generosity of our family of FPB owners who, once again, freely provided many of the featured pictures, we are happy to offer you this 13-month (January-January) wall calendar. The calendars are priced at USD $10.99, which covers the printer’s costs of production. (Shipping and any applicable tax is additional.) You can preview […]
FPB 97 Iceberg: Surfing Off Before A Wicked New Zealand Gale
Come aboard FPB 97-1 Iceberg for a quick ride from Waiheke Island to Whangarei. This is our first taste of her steering characteristics downwind in short steep seas. The waves are off the stern quarter.
FPB 97-1 Drone Photos – What You Really Need under The Tree
Being very 21st century in all things to do with serious cruising, we have a demo video of a pair of ultimate cruising tools. The first is an FPB _______ (insert your appropriate size), and the second a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ Quadcopter with FPV HD Video Camera and 3-Axis Gimbal with which to admire the […]
FPB 97-1: First Sea Trial Video
Here is a very short video of FPB 97-1 on her third day of sea trials. The breeze varied from 12 to 24 knots, and the sea from 2 to 4 feet/.6-1.2 meters. The engines are still restricted as to output, but this will give you a sense of what will be possible when we […]
FPB 97-1 Sea Trials – Kicking Up The Revs
FPB 97-1 is working its way up the engine load chart. Todd Rickard shot some video last week aboard, from which this transom shot is extracted. FPB 97 -1 is traveling at 13.5 knots in the photo above. Here is a view of the stern wave we’ve been showing you in previous posts. Notice a […]
FPB 97 – Efficient At Anchor And Underway
The FPB 97 employs a massive solar array of the most efficient panels you can buy, a unique passive/active ventilation system, and massive traction battery bank, to minimize and in some cases eliminate generator time at anchor. Theory up till now, we are starting to get real world data and the results look promising. There […]
FPB 97 Sea Trials – Veem Props Are For Real
In an earlier post we mentioned having learned the hard way to take propeller manufacturers’ performance claims with a healthy dose of skepticism. Now that we have had an early taste of the Veem interceptor propellers, we can tell you they work as advertised on FPB 97-1. The Veem props have a dovetail slot machined […]
