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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 […]

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 […]

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Launching and retrieval of a large dinghy is probably the riskiest endeavor on any yacht. Pete Rossin, of Iron Lady (FPB64-3), has written up the system he uses, the link for which is at the end of this article. Before checking his blog, here are some things for owners of all types of vessels to […]

We are back from a brief hiatus and are snowed with a desk full of . But as your weekend is approaching, and football is so far less than exemplary (at Least in Tucson), we thought a few construction photos might help pass the time. We’ll start with FPB64-6, above, now well along in its […]

In the spring of 2010 the sail training vessel Concordia was capsized and lost off the coast of Brazil. The crew was rescued and the blame was fixed on an unforeseeable microburst. The Canadian Transport Safety Board has now issued a report covering the incident, which makes for interesting reading. A couple of points we […]

Here is a surprising look at some, but not all, of the items on charge or requiring charging transformers on Wind Horse. These mainly deal with the computer system with a few of  other items. Included here are: Two portable VHF chargers. Printer. Three external hard drives (Mac Time Machine + two photo hard drives). […]

For our at anchor roll control devices we use a halyard which runs from a block at the end of t he boom, inboard to a rope clutch. The problem is that in bouncy anchorages the halyard sometimes slaps the boom, which is annoying. We have gotten around this with a stopper knot at the […]

It is Saturday afternoon, football so far is boring, and having been on land now for almost a week we’ve been talking about some of our favorite anchorages. That lead to the thought that it might be nice to share some of these with you. We’ll start with Secluded Bay, on the West Coast of […]