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Category Archives: Columns
Istvan Kopar – the final ending
THE FINAL SUBTERFUGE – A LOW BLOW AFTER THE BELL Final conclusions
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Golden Globe Race – Windvane striptease # 3
GOLDEN GLOBE RACE – WINDPILOT REFERENCES Windvane striptease 3
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Golden Globe Race – Istvan Kopar – Press Release
A MATTER OF HONOUR Press Release
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Golden Globe Race – Tapio Lehtinen FIN
BARNACLES UPDATE 800 nm WEST OF CAPE HORN Ham – barnacles
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Golden Globe Race – Windvane striptease #2
HUMAN AND MACHINE Windvane striptease 2
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Golden Globe Race – Istvan Kopar US
ROLLER-COASTER RIDE – BATTLING THE DEMONS Roller-coaster Ride
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Windvane politics
FORGIVE ME FATHER, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT … Windvane politics
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Windpilot on performance yachts
DIALOG ABOUT USEFULNESS OF WINDPILOT ON ALUBAT CIGALE 14 Performance yachts
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Peter and the market
WINDPILOT – INTRIGUE AND COPYCATS Intrigue and copycats
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Golden Globe Race 2018 – emergency rudder
IN EXTREMIS – LOSING THE RUDDER SOS Rudder
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Achilles heels – Saildrives
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
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Influencers
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
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Cardinal sins – the rudder
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
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Golden Globe Race 2018 – La Longue Route 2018
PLANNING A LONG VOYAGE Six months is really quite a long time, at least when it comes to travel planning. 2018 January
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The importance of a strong rudder
APPEARANCE AND REALITY A tour of European trade fairs and marinas reveals which marketing campaigns and promotions have gained the most traction and highlights the latest trends and developments to have been packaged up, badged (invariably) as important improvements and … Continue reading
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Longue Route 2018
GENESIS OF THE LONGUE ROUTE 2018 To plagiarize shamelessly Jack London – or his wife Charmian, both wrote exactly the same sentence without specifying the author – “it’s all the fault of Captain Joshua Slocum and his ship the Spray!” … Continue reading
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From Aries to Windpilot
THE CHANGE FROM ARIES TO WINDPILOT MADE SIMPLE As the years have passed, innumerable UK-based boats that once had an Aries in pride of place have switched to the Windpilot Pacific. The differences are striking – time marches on (at … Continue reading
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Transom ornaments part #2
BIMINI – PERSONEL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT Transom ornaments 2
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Transom ornaments part #1
INSTALLATION, OBSERVATIONS, ( OVER ) ANALYSIS Transom ornaments 1
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Boats by nations – France Part 1
LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ – or none of the above? Freedom, equality and fraternity: values that inspired the rebirth of a nation but whose lustre seems to have faded under the onslaught of individualism, values that may or may not, depending … Continue reading
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