With four FPB 64s + the FPB 83 prototype WInd Horse now cruising, the fifth boat under construction, and two more awaiting their start, FPB cruising news is starting to filter in. We thought a brief recap and some links might be of interest.
Avatar, the first of the FPB 64s has been cruising in the South […]
FPB 64-2, Sarah Sarah, will be on hand at Trawlerfest in Anacortes, Washington, next weekend (May 12-14). Sarah Sarah is the first FPB 64 in the United States having made the passage from New Zealand on her own bottom last fall. This is a rare opportunity to have a look aboard one of these yachts without […]
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. […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
