Category Archives: Peter´s considerations

THE HUMAN FACTOR – THERE’S NO PREDICTING THE UNPREDICTABLE GGR and Windpilot

IGOR´S SAILING MUSSLEFARM Always fine having some cruising sailors living around the play ball, taking care for some interesting events. These are the pictures taken in ALBANY WA, just some hours ago. Ian Leggett a sailor of Windpilot on his … Continue reading →

WINDVANE STRIPTEASE Don McIntyre – GGR

FORGIVE ME FATHER, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT … Windvane politics

DIALOG ABOUT USEFULNESS OF WINDPILOT ON ALUBAT CIGALE 14 Performance yachts

PUBLIC RESPONSE TO ISTVAN´S LATEST PODCAST Mindelo findings

WINDVANE SELF-STEERING – LESSONS translation of German blog dated 17th july 2018 Windvane basics

WINDVANE SELF-STEERING – BACK TO BASICS Antoine Cousot

STEERING IN FOURTH GEAR A planning oversight

CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT A SOLUTION FOR ISTVAN´S PROBLEM https://windpilot.com/blog/en/golden-globe-race/istvan-kopar/

RIDING THE RAZOR´S EDGE – ONE-WAY TRAFFIC ON SPONSORSHIP STREET The fall guy

USUAL PROCEDURE? GGR # 3

PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER Puzzling things out

WINDPILOT – INTRIGUE AND COPYCATS Intrigue and copycats

WINDPILOT – PROPERLY EFFECTIVE WINDVANE STEERING SYSTEMS Hydrovane – Windpilot

IN EXTREMIS – LOSING THE RUDDER https://windpilot.com/blog/en/columns/sos-rudderless/

THE HOW AND THE WHY From the harbour tug operator to the car driver with an empty tank, anyone with first-hand experience knows the best way to set a large load moving in the right direction is to push it … Continue reading →

INFLUENCERS AND INFLUENZA – THE SILENT POWER Influencers and influenza: both have the capacity to render one powerless, but while influenza’s challenge to the immune system is impossible to overlook, the influence on our thought processes of sources we trust … Continue reading →

RUDDER, TILLER, WHEEL STEERING, EMERGENCY TILLER Is overconfidence the order of the day? Have we lost our respect for the forces of nature? Naively succumbed to the marketers’ forked tongue? Is the new really always better than the old? Are … Continue reading →

PLANNING A LONG VOYAGE Six months is really quite a long time, at least when it comes to travel planning. https://windpilot.com/blog/en/columns/ggr-llr-2/