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When you enter the shop floor and stand looking up at 78-1′s enormous bow, you really start to get a sense for the size and scope of the newest FPB model. It’s hard not to have a big smile on your face. (Pictured above left to right are: Ryan Wynott, Sarah Dashew, Todd Rickard and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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.

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 […]

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 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 […]