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Category Archives: Word of mouth
SV Tamata – Matt Lansdown US
Before we installed our self-steering wind vane, the flashiest things on the boat were our brightly colored-coded reefing lines. Now we not only have a contemporary German kinetic sculpture attached to our transom but also a third form of steering … Continue reading
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SV Passage – Bud Bliemeister US
CIRCUMNAVIGATION NEARLY COMPLETED Peter, I need to order some parts for my trusty old Windpilot Pacific. We left Hawaii ten years ago on our Peterson 44 and have only one leg remaining (Tahiti to Hawaii) to complete our circumnavigation. The … Continue reading
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SV Suditude – Jean Claude Fleuret CH
PASSAGE TRINIDAD TO CHILE Hello Peter, Beautiful your pilot; we are now in Valdivia, all the time performed by your invention! Perfection even in weak wind and strong ! More finesse than the Windsurf, more beautiful, a lot of positiv … Continue reading
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SV Pelerin, Colin Speedie UK
Transatlantic Voyage—What Worked and What Didn’t There’s nothing like a good long voyage to sort out a boat, for better or for worse. That much I learned running a working charter boat for so many years. Every season we’d cover … Continue reading
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SV Swantje, Rainer Wäsch DE
Hallo Peter, die Winterarbeit hat Früchte getragen und der Film vom Lofotentörn mit SY Swantje ist fertiggestellt. Einer der Hauptdarsteller ist natürlich WINDPILOT Pacific… eine meiner besten Entscheidungen seit ich segle Mit bestem Gruß Rainer Wäsch, SV Swantje WEITERLESEN
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SV Elenya, Jim Dilley NZ
Hi Peter, The Windpilot has taken us down to the Subantarctic and up to North Pacific on our SAGA 40, and the rest of the Caribbean and Pacific a few times on other boats. I sailed from the Uk to … Continue reading
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SV Blabber, Ingrid+Ben Evers NL
Dear Peter, we finally have good internet and are able to send you a video of our windpilot working at sea. We can tell you it worked excellent!! We first got tot the Cape Verde without problems and it worded … Continue reading
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SV Nightmare, Marie+Mark Lagerstrom SE
Another ALBIN VEGA on her way around the playball. After 914 days from departing their homeport in Sweden, Marie and Mark just arrived at Durban South Africa. As Mark describes his boat: ” Yup, she’s not big or fancy or … Continue reading
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SV Blauwe Pinquin, Ben Rutte NED
Successfully returned from a Circumnavigation after 36.000 nm, back to the home port of Amsterdam Ben Rutte and his VICTOIRE 34 made the trip around the playball during 3 years. continue
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SV Thule, Ursula+Rainer Woehl, GER
Nach 3 jähriger Weltumsegelung ist die Familie Woehl wohlbehalten in ihrem Heimathafen Flensburg eingetroffen. Die Thule, eine im Jahre 1971 bei Abeking & Rasmussen Lemwerder in Aluminium gebaute Ketch und den heutigen Eigner verbindet eine lebenslange Geschichte. Rainer Woehl hat … Continue reading
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SV Tuvalu, Hans Geilinger ES
Hi Peter a wonderful sailing season came to ceize due to the start of the hurricane season. Our boat went on the hard in Chaguaramas / Trindad and we will proceed to Panama during next season time. The Pacific has … Continue reading
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