Hands – free

DEVICES AND BACKUPS – THE SHORT VERSION

Hands-free

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Golden Globe Race – Windvane Report #2

DON´S PYRRHIC VICTORY – OR SHOULD WE CALL IT A “LEARNING OPPORTUNITY”?

DON´S PYRRHUSSIEG – ODER EINE LEHRSTUNDE?

Don’s Pyrrhic Victory

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Peterese

18 BOOKS IN 24 MONTHS! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?


Peterese

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SV Bayanat – Abhilash Tomy IND

REFLECTIONS AND THE INDIAN SOUL

Abhilash Tomy

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SV Puffin – Ian Herbert-Jones UK

HYDROVANE – JSD DROGUE – DON’S RUSSIAN ROULETTE?
HYDROVANE – JSD DROGUE – DON´S RUSSISCHES ROULETTE?

The Loss of the Puffin

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2022 – There goes another one

GROUNDHOG YEAR – REFLECTIONS – ARTISTRY

2022 – There goes another one

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SV Jonathan – Caro + Mark van de Weg NED

PUFFIN’S ANGEL IN PATAGONIA

Ian Herbert-Jones

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Golden Globe Race – Susanne Huber-Curphey

REFLECTIONS, QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS

Susanne Huber-Curphey

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Une vie dans le lit du vent

WINDPILOT BOOKS – LIVRE # 18

Une vie dans le lit du vent

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Peter and the Big Boy’s Toys

BOB THE BUILDER COMES TO HAMBURG

Big Boy’s Toys

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SV Olleanna – Jeremy Bagshaw ZA

20.000 SM OF SAILING – CAPE TOWN – LES SABLES – HOBART

Jeremy Bagshaw

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SV Tiama – Dustin Reynolds US

SINGLEHAND ROUND THE WORLD – ONE ARM AND ONE LEG ONLY
A tragic yet inspiring story. On 18 October 2008, Dustin lost an arm and a leg in a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver in Hawaii. He didn’t let it get him down, and in the following years he took up sailing and made spectacular voyages with different boats (Alberg 35 and later Bristol 35) on a low budget and with sponsor support.

Dustin Reynolds US

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SV Pingo – Mike Smith Au

THE LOOSE ENDS OF A CHRISTMAS TALE
On 25 December 2021, I posted a Christmas tale about Michael Date on my blog following his decision to withdraw from the entry list for the GGR 2022. A year or so later, I would now like to share some information about what happened next.

Michael Date’s Windpilot Pacific has jumped ship to join Australian Mike Smith in Glen Oak, New South Wales, who will shortly be installing it on his newly built Eric 32 (readers may recall that Thuriya, the boat a seriously injured Abhilash had to abandon during the GGR 2018, was built to the same William Atkins design).

Mike Smith Au

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SV Suntory Mermaid III – Kenichi Horie JP

WINNER OF BLUE WATER MEDAL – CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA

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Kenichi Horie, Japan’s best known ocean sailor, has been named winner of the 2022 Blue Water Medal by the Cruising Club of America (CCA) for a lifetime of ocean-crossing achievement. His most recent voyage began in March, 2022, when he sailed alone from San Francisco to Chiba, Japan, at age 83

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Aries – Peter Mathiessen Brazil – UPDATE


BACK TO THE FUTURE Peter Mathiessen´s comment of today 09.01.2023: Peter Matthiessen no longer owns Aries, so it isn’t immediately obvious why the Bad Weather Problem (and its stubborn refusal to manifest itself in the real world – see, for example, the Windvane Report), but apparently not. Did someone make a resolution last week about flogging a dead horse one more time or might there be pressure coming to bear from somewhere else? Either way, Peter Matthiessen just decided to add a comment to this blog I published more than three years ago. He says:


Peter Matthiesen 2019

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SV Chamade – Sylvie Cphen + Marc Decrey CH

VERDI – LA TRAVIATA – OVNI 365 – ET LA GRAND MER

Magnifique évocation de notre attitude aujourd’hui en cette veillée de Noël. Cela fait 21 jours que nous sommes en pleine mer et il en faudra encore de nombreux avant de retrouver la terre. Combien? Chut, une douzaine… je vous le dis à voix basse pour ne pas déranger le cavalier des steppes. Continue reading

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SV Dutch – Sebastiaan Ambtman NED

LONGDISTANCE CRUISING ON BREEHORN 37 – NOW BOREAL 44
Dear Peter, It has been a few years since we were in contact. We used our Windpilot on our Breehorn 37 ‘Pjotter’ (www.pjotterpassages.com) a great deal. We have now bought a Boreal 44 (‘Dutch’) on which I would like to install our trusty Windpilot. Is there anything in particular I should be taking into account or can I just follow the manual? I noticed that one of the pictures in the manual was taken on a Boreal! Maybe you have more detail pictures?
Best regards,
Sebastiaan Ambtman SV DUTCH

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SV Dutch – Sebastiaan Ambtman NED

BOREAL 44 – TRANSATLANTIC WITH FAMILY

YT CHANNEL

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SV Morwenna – James + Debbie Collings-Wells UK

VANCOUVER 34 ON HER WAY TO SCOTLAND
Hi Peter, I hope all is well with you.
The Windpilot that you sold me last winter has been amazing. I sailed from the south coast of England to Scotland and back over the summer, and it made life so easy. My wife was suspicious of it at first, and now loves it.
Best wishes,
James

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SV Blue Water – Mikael Olund SWE

ALLEGRO 33 SAILING TO SURINAM
Hello Peter! Thank you for a great produkt. I have now used it for approx 12 000 miles. But now I have a problem to make it funktion properly. It seems like the inner pushrod in the tube has bent. What could have cosed that?
Regards from Mikael, currently in Domburg, Surinam Continue reading

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