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After sending off the post last night, the sea state became even more contumacious. For the first time in 6000 hours of cruising with Wind Horse we found it advantageous to slow down – a lot – from 1800 rpm to 1500 and a boat speed of eight knots or less.Although the wind never blew […]

With all this boat building on SetSail recently, and before that bucolic cruising in Maine and down the IntraCoasal Waterway, you may get the impression that we have become soft in our old age. If so, you would be correct. We use our boat speed, a rudimentary knowledge of weather, and total disregard of rigid […]

Todd and Mark are visiting FPB 97-1 in New Zealand this week and are sending back some great photos, which we thought you might enjoy seeing. This first series are taken inside the forepeak. That is Todd with his black sweater vest and FPB hat (at six foot four inches a good reference scale), and […]

Pete and Debby Rossin own FPB 64 Iron Lady, and write a very interesting blog about their travels and goings-on. Pete’s recent techie post regarding internet browsing security got everyone in this family using VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks. In this age of constant global criss-crossing and wifi use, it’s a worthy consideration. Check out […]

We are headed out to have Thanksgiving with the family in Atwater Village, California. Although an iconic American holiday, the sentiment of the Thanksgiving name is understood in most of the world. We have much to be thankful for, including a loyal group of fellow travelers in the SetSail community. On the off chance that […]

The sixth FPB 64 is now undergoing sea trials. She has a new great room layout, and we thought you might like to see a few photos of the galley. It is late, there is lots on our plate, so we’ll let the photos speak for themselves. There is a new table in the salon […]

We’ve been at this a long time, seen more yachts under construction than we can remember, looked at untold thousands of photographs of same, and nothing has ever come close to the image above received a few minutes ago. Check the scale of the bow compared to the mere humans (and big ones at that) […]

Since launching, Wind Horse has comfortably chauffeured us well over 50,000 miles, through the tropics, to the ice pack of the high Arctic beyond 80 degrees North, and along the Intra Coastal Waterway. She has done this with a minimum of fuss, little maintenance, at a fraction of the cost we were used to before. […]

We’ve been so busy on the details end of FPB 97-1 – a  project like this has a tendency to take all your bandwidth – that we have been remiss in keeping SetSailors up to date on the design. Better late than never, here are some updated renderings of the exterior of this Wicked FPB. […]

We thought it was time to devote some computing energy towards showing you the latest on the Wicked FPB 97 Great Room. These renderings only hint at the feeling of space that this Great Room will engender. When you walk in through the main door, and take in the unobstructed view towards the bow, you […]