DEVICES AND BACKUPS – THE SHORT VERSION
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Peter Foerthmann Blog
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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?
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Peterese
18 BOOKS IN 24 MONTHS! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
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SV Bayanat – Abhilash Tomy IND
REFLECTIONS AND THE INDIAN SOUL
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SV Puffin – Ian Herbert-Jones UK
HYDROVANE – JSD DROGUE – DON’S RUSSIAN ROULETTE?
HYDROVANE – JSD DROGUE – DON´S RUSSISCHES ROULETTE?
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2022 – There goes another one
GROUNDHOG YEAR – REFLECTIONS – ARTISTRY
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SV Jonathan – Caro + Mark van de Weg NED
PUFFIN’S ANGEL IN PATAGONIA
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Golden Globe Race – Susanne Huber-Curphey
REFLECTIONS, QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS
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Peter and the Big Boy’s Toys
BOB THE BUILDER COMES TO HAMBURG
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SV Olleanna – Jeremy Bagshaw ZA
20.000 SM OF SAILING – CAPE TOWN – LES SABLES – HOBART
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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.
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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).
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SV Suntory Mermaid III – Kenichi Horie JP
WINNER OF BLUE WATER MEDAL – CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA
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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:
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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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