We’ll start this tale with an almost impossible moon shot from the deck of a yacht at anchor. There isn’t much light, given the small amount of moon illumination, which means a slow shutter speed necessitating a stable platform. Add in that this is a 500mm lens with a doubler, and it gets even trickier. […]
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Squalls At Anchor
Weve been anchored in a lovely channel amongst the Marquesas Keys west of Key West (off the NW corner of Boca Grande). There is good holding, a reversing current running at two to three knots, and 15 to 20 knots of breeze to keep us cool. The direction of the wind, out of the east, […]
Storing Dinghies Forward
Storing dinghies forward of the mast as in the photo above has benefits and problems.
It makes launching with the spinnaker halyard easy, and raising the dink at night leaving it alongside is simple. And often there is no other location that is practical.
There are two major negatives. The first is your sight lines from aft, […]
Wind Horse Monitor Glare Shield
One of the things that has long been overdue onboard Wind Horse is a glare shield for the three navigation monitors. Working with Greg Kelchner in Fort Lauderdale we fashioned a variety of mock ups from thin plywood.
We found that five inches / 125mm of overhang to be ideal. The finished product is bent up […]
Fan Power Consumption, Air Movement, and Value
You see before you a reasonable looking, AC powered fan, that moves far more air than the smaller marine counterparts. As our previous fans, with their steel cages, were looking a little rusty, when we saw these in Home Depot, we picked up a cartful. Plugging in our Kill-A-Watt meter we found the following values:
At […]
FPB 64-Second Series Underway
With Iron Lady cruising in Tonga and Osprey about to head off to Australia, attention has turned to the second series of FPB 64s.
The framing for FPB 64-5 is shown above and below. Construction on six will start n a few months, with seven, now under contract to follow. That leaves FPB 64-8 still available. […]
Dual High Capacity Raw Water Strainers – Finally Put To Use
We have dragged these two oversized strainers around for the past 50,000 miles. Other than an end of season cleaning only once have they needed to be emptied – until today.
As we have been sitting most of the last two weeks, and Florida has lots of weed in the water, we thought a look was […]
A Real Cool (Cruising) Cat
The only reason we can see to cruise offshore in a multihull is speed. But if you go for the condo style cats the weight and windage will make you so slow that you will envy the daily runs of monohulls. On the other hand with long hulls, minimal accommodations, and low windage, fast sailing […]
Pilothouse for FPB 64
I was wondering what the possibilities of placing a Pilothouse like the one on the FBP 112 on the FBP 64? Placing it forward in line with the lower house windows and then having a “porch” on the aft section.
Hi Chrisopher:
We looked at a pilot house configuration in the original conceptual work for the FPB […]
Whiskey Creek Dinghy Cruise
At the suggestion of a SetSail visitor we took of yesterday afternoon to have a look at Whiskey Creek.
It is an almost pristine wilderness a few minutes dinghy ride from where WInd Horse is anchored. And if you get lucky, there are some wonderful critters to observe.
These include cruisers who would rather be off a […]
