We’re on our way south, with the crowd. At the beginning of the Intra Coastal Waterway, Great Bridge, near Norfolk, Virginia, things are a bit crowded. But they quickly thin out, and for the most part we’ve been able to find the quiet waterways and anchorages which are to our liking. As we mentioned on […]
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FPB 64-5 Get Home Auxiliary – The Tradeoffs
Todd Rickard is just back from a quick trip to New Zealand to check on the engine room layout now that a get home system is being added to the FPB 64s. Those of you who have been aboard one of the FPB 64s knows the engine room is a work of art. Circa, our […]
Hull Shape, Displacement, and Boat Speed
Sitting here at anchor off to the side of of the Intra Coastal Waterway affords the opportunity of studying hull shapes and their wave trains. What we have for you here are several different shapes, each with a unique shape to their disturbance pattern. The boat above is about 35-feet long and is throwing a […]
Predicting Performance Under Power – Albemarle Prop Test
Predicting performance under power is relatively simple if you have a hull form that fits standard models (the definition of standard here covers a gamut of fishing trawlers to high speed destroyer hulls). In the olden days you would look up David Taylor model test data for something similar and then go to work with […]
Wye River, Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake
Weather that has folks scurrying for cover often holds the most dramatic impact. If you happen to be anchored in a totally protected body of water, with the pick well dug in, you can concentrate on soaking up the view. The Chesapeake shoreline is so rich in treasure that it is hard to know where […]
To Paint Or Not To Paint That Is The Question
We love the visually textured finish of bare aluminum. The way light plays on the surface presents an ever changing canvas, never boring, always something a little different, elegant in an understated way. But if you are new to the look it can take a while to fall in love with the appearance (it is much easier […]
Tactics For Dealing WIth Groundings – A Reevaluation
A while ago we wrote up the details on the FPB 64 Iron Lady’s interaction with a Fijian Reef. She is in New Zealand now, hauled out near Circa, and we’ve been studying the photos and talking to her owner, Pete Rossin, to get a better feel for the conditions. What we have learned has […]
Press Coverage
Press Coverage Yachting Magazine ,August 2010 “On Top of the World: Wind Horse rides the fjords of Svalbard to 90 degrees North.” Click here. Press Coverage Yachting Magazine ,August 2010 “On Top of the World: Wind Horse rides the fjords of Svalbard to 90 degrees North.” Click here. PassageMaker Magaine, October 2009 “Going with the […]
Deerfoot 61 Ariana In Papua New Guinea
One of the things we love about this business is recieving family photos. This series is of a Deerfoot 61, built in fiberglass at Salthouse Brothers in Auckland, under Kelly Archers’s watchful eye. Of historical interest may be the fact that hull shape is the first to be built from lines drawn with the then […]
A Change of Scenery
Cruising is a fulfilling life style. It provides an ever changing mix of people, environment and challenges. When you are new to it there’s a sense of wonder. This comes from a combination of incredulity that it took so long to make the decision to get away, simple pleasure in the achievement, and just being […]
