When you head offshore your safety depends on stability, both upright and ultimate (the heel angle at which you don’t recover from a knockdown). Given today’s software and computing power, calculating stability is a relatively straightforward exercise. This is required for commercial vessels, larger yachts, and generally for any flag state/class certification such as MCA, […]
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An FPB 64, A Party, And Some Old Stones: Report From England – Posted By Sarah
Todd and I have just returned stateside after a trek east to England, where we celebrated FPB 64 Grey Wolf‘s demi-circumnavigation with press, pubs, and parties. Lymington, the site of Berthon UK and Grey Wolf’s celebration, is a lovely old Georgian sea port, with a long history of ship building; at dusk the church bells […]
Hard Core Weather Watchers Alert -Bertha Is Going to Rock
Hurricane Bertha has gotten a little press so far, but her evolution to extra-tropical structure indicates big things may be in store for the UK and parts of Europe.Hurricanes are compact, rarely more than 40 miles across where their strong winds reside, and slow moving. As a result they are easy to dodge. When these […]
Sony Alpha 7 – A Revolution in Camera Gear
We’ve been dragging around 40 pound backpacks of full frame Canon professional camera gear since the ark. It was the way we knew to get the results. Now there is a better answer. Linda took the lead photo using a full frame processor Sony 7A mirrorless camera, on auto, using the 28-70mm plastic kit lens. Astonishing […]
FPB Construction Progress Update: August1, 2014
It is the first day of August and time for an update, starting with three shots of the FPB 97-1 forepeak, looking here from inside the chain locker and aft. Now looking forward, the diesel fire/dewatering pump is in the foreground. A dive compressor is on the starboard side forward above the workbench. And a […]
Living the Dream up North: Avatar Logs
It is always a treat to check out our owners’ blogs and live vicariously through their cruising adventures. Carol Parker, an avid photographer who owns FPB 64-1 Avatar with her husband Mike, has some truly stunning recent visual additions to their site: www.AvatarLogs.com. They are spending the summer in the wilds of British Columbia, and […]
Power Boat Storm Tactics – Running With The Waves
When you design a yacht to deal with heavy weather, the process is made difficult by a lack of real world experience in truly dangerous conditions. But occasionally events transpire from which you can learn something. One of those is depicted above in the photo sent in by Peter Watson, the owner of FPB 64-6 […]
FPB 78 Great Room Helm and Galley Final Design With A Hint Of Lighting
Continuing on with our update lets look at the great room con, the logic for which has changed completely. Originally, we thought of the Matrix deck as the primary helm and the great room as a secondary location, mainly to be used for offshore and off soundings watch keeping. As such, it had a minimum […]
FPB 78 Exterior Update
With the design and engineering cycle for the FPB 78 Series nearing completion – it has been two years and over 16,000 man hours since we started this process – bandwidth is now available to bring you up to date. There are numerous refinements which we will discuss in a series of posts, starting here […]
FPB 64-5 Tiger Featured In PassageMaker Magazine
The July/August edition of PassageMaker Magazine features a lovely piece by John Beatty on “doing it right” with cruising. The article follows John and Sandy Henrichs’ adventures aboard their FPB 64-5 Tiger. Click here to read the digital version, or pick up a copy in stores.
