Category Archives: Portraits

Dear Peter Here are the photos of my Windpilot Pacific purchased in 1997 It has just returned from a 29,000ml trip including the Southern Ocean and functioned perfectly.There is a bit of wear in the Delrin joints and worm gear … Continue reading →

Living part time in Puerto Andratx since the nineties, there was no way to come around to meet Mary Synge and Paul Kinzelmann who settled in her old Finca “Es Roses” in ANDRATX de Mallorca. I often met them on … Continue reading →

2 BROTHERS, 1 PEDALO, 5 WORLD RECORDS & THE ATLANTIC Some say they are mad, they may be right! It all started the way many madcap adventures begin, several pints in the local pub. A group of friends wondered what … Continue reading →

It has been during a delivery from SAN DIEGO California, to HAWAII, when skipper Philip Johnson and his crew experienced some electrical problems. Sea was getting rough and a wave hit the boat and skipper has been hit whilst working … Continue reading →

BROKEN HEART – LUCKILY NOT CHICAGO january 1998. Deep winter, minus 25 Grad Celsius, snow white town all over. I just built up my Windpilot equipment for CHICAGO BOAT SHOW – NAVY PIER – and accepted some icecold days driving … Continue reading →

Hello Peter, I have just completed my circumnavigation and am back home again. After my Atlantic circuit (10.000 miles) I sailed 30.000 miles round the world. Only failure on the windpilot was the worm wheel which was replaced in Oman. … Continue reading →

The first ARC, in November 1986, attracted a lot of nice people but also some strange ones. Among them was this tall German guy going around the marina dragging behind him a large tool box on wheels and doing maintenance … Continue reading →

Durban South Africa November / Dezember 1998. Ich war für ein paar Wochen im Land, um die Einhand Reise meines Freundes GEOFFREY HILTON BARBER vorzubereiten – keine einfache Sache, denn Geoff war blind – wollte dennoch einhand mit seiner Yacht … Continue reading →

Australian Pilot books mentions saltwater crocodiles to be dangerous, advising the following: DO NOT leave the dinghy hanging out of the back, especially at night. In particular a rubber duck. Either tie it alongside or lift it out of the … Continue reading →

Jürgen anchors SV Rubicon in Carlisle Bay, Barbados, after nearly a month on the Atlantic. Jürgen left Hamburg July 6, 2010Hamburg to Barbados & Beyond A Tartan’s Tale Two sailors sit, becalmed, in the middle of the ocean on their … Continue reading →

I could easily fill a book recounting all the unbelievable things I have seen and heard in the course of my 36 years of active service in the vane gear business. In fact I did write a book once – … Continue reading →

LIveaboards since now 11 years Eva and Horst are currently in Sint Maarten Ned. Ant. After completion of a circumnavigation on their previous 30ft Najade SV Joshua in the eighties, they made a total refit of the same old boat … Continue reading →

Subject: JUST BEING NEIGHBORLY… Stuttgart, Germany

Dear Peter, as I promised some 17 years ago, I send you the pictures of the installation WINDPILOT PACIFIC 1994, on my new sailing boat ALUBAT OVNI30. The system is working very well, like usual since 1994 on my former … Continue reading →

After sailing his beloved SV Jessamy, a RUSTLER 36, Roddy handed his boat over to some friend. One of them Jeremy Cobban contacted me some time ago: Peter, Having sailed a friends Rustler 36 “Jessamy” with your excellent self steering … Continue reading →