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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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SV Express Crusader – Douwe Gorter NED
FAMOUS EXPRESS CRUSADER USED SAILOMAT, ARIES AND WINDPILOT Hi Peter, Hope this email finds you well! I wanted to give you a short update on the performance of the very old Windpilot that I bought and installed on Ponta Delgada, … Continue reading
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SV Asevao – David Jolivet FRA
GARCIA PASSOA 46 – ARRIVED IN HORTA Hi Peter, between the problems with the COVID and the manufacturing of the custom-made support part for the Windpilot and the Watt&Sea, it took me a long time before I install the Windpilot… … Continue reading
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SV Elane – Eivind Amsrud NOR
ATLANTIC CIRCLE ON JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 43 DS Dear Peter, After 2 years of cruising and crossing the Atlantic both ways, we are now back in our home country, Norway. Just wanted to let you know that we have been … Continue reading
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SV Suntory Mermaid III – Kenichi Horie JP
83 YEAR OLD MAN CROSSING THE PACIFIC SOLO
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SV Jack – Doug Paine US
SMALL POCKET CRUISER ON THE OCEANS – AROUND THE US Good day Peter, Really like the gear after 1500 miles of sailing since I got it. I have had the boat in Alaska, New England, the Pacific Northwest, a solo … Continue reading
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SV Sagitta – Matti Illuka FIN
WINDPILOT PACIFIC ON DUTY SINCE 15 YEARS Hello Peter, greetings from Finnland. I have owned pacific windpilot 15 years and it has been working absolutly well. There is nothing like pacific. Matti from Helsinki
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SV Velp – Petra + Guus Verweij NED
OVNI 32 AND PACIFIC – A PERFECT COUPLE Hi Peter, just a quick note, it’s working perfect now! I didn’t change the set-up yet with a crossbar (which we have onboard). It doesn’t seems necessary yet. Off course the wheel coupling … Continue reading
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SV Kiss Cool – Olivier Rapin FRA
BENETEAU FIRST 40.7 – A REAL CHALLENGE You are very well known in the sailing world and the Windpilot is really the best speed regulator in the world. Thank you for creating this product to make our navigation easier. It’s … Continue reading
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SV Silenus – Martin Trumper UK
CONTESSA 32 – SAILING IN SINGAPORE AND ENGLAND OVER 15 YEARS Good morning Peter, I am again reminded that good service lives on at Windpilot. From the first conversation at Earls Court boat show so many years ago the service … Continue reading
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SV Gannet – Sytze Brandenburg NED
24 YEARS OF USE ON NAJAD 320 AND BREEHORN 37 Dear mr. Förthmann, After more than twenty years of extensive use I would like to overhaul my Windpilot Pacific (version prior to 1998) and replace a number of “plastic” parts … Continue reading
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SV Vega – Georg Johan Nese NOR
ANOTHER VEGA CALLED VEGA – FIRST EXPERIENCES Hello Peter, just have to say i`am verry impressd by the bulit quality of the windpilot, and the simpel installasjon. I have only been on one trip and testing the windpilot, and it worked Perfect. … Continue reading
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SV Melody – John Eriksson SE
HAVSFIDRA 20 – UNDERWAY WITH PACIFIC LIGHT SINCE 10 YEARS Good Day Peter! Windpilot Pacifica Light working great! I just wanted to say i have tried the windvane quite a bit now and it works great! Holds its course in … Continue reading
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Life Lessons
ALONE OR, PREFERABLY, NOT Life works best in a pair. For anything else To give real satisfaction Is really decidedly rare. Life Lessons
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JSD Drogue
SHANE FREEMAN PRACTISING THE JSD DROGE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC A multi-facted, and complex discussion, where theory and praxis can vary a lot. JSD Drogue
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SV Jonathan – Caro + Marc van de Weg NED
JONATHAN JUST ARRIVED IN PUERTO WILLIAMS – CHILE Hi Peter, A few days ago we arrived in Puerto Williams from the Pacific. We had an uneventful crossing from Rapa Iti in the Austral Islands. Sure we had some weather but … Continue reading
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Idols and Dreams
FROM TRAIN DRIVER OR SHIP’S CAPTAIN TO AN AUNT FROM AMERICA Idols and Dreams