ALL THE WAY AROUND … WHAT?
Haparanda: remote, mysterious, alluring… and located at the very top of the Baltic, so best enjoyed with the aid of some friendly sunshine. It’s really all about the journey, as every wise mariner knows, but even so some people need guaranteed sun and warmth to get them out of their bunk and for them a tour of the Med might be more appropriate (although a better relationship with the sun does come at the price of a trickier relationship with the wind, which tends in these lower latitudes to come in just the two sizes: too little and too much). But then every silver lining has its cloud, of course, and with that in mind I would now like to cast a critical eye over the routing options…. continue
Circumnavigation # 2
SV Admetus – Belinda+David Sturm AT
THREE YEARS DONE – HALF WAY ROUND
Small boat on a long journey, Belinda, David and their SADLER 32 entered the Pacific at the beginning of the year 2014, visiting Polynesia, Tuamotus and other archipelago, tried kite surfing in Maupiti and slowly moving westward. continue to read
HR 42 Ketch – for sale – occasion – SOLD
SV KIRA VON CELLE
12,93 x 3,98 x 2,05m, OE Design,
Baunummer # 77, Bj 1983,
Totalrefit 2002 – 2004, vast documentation and expertise available
Yanmar 4HJ4-E 56 PS in 2007
Vetus Bow thruster
fully equipped incl. Radar, Plotter, AIS, Dinghy in davids
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Circumnavigation # 1
HIGHS, LOWS and MYTHS
Few utterances stir the soul and spirit of a sailor like the word “circumnavigation”, the visible tip of a vast iceberg mighty enough in the mind of most seafaring folk to change careers, restructure financial priorities and fuel any number of dreams (or nightmares, as the case may be). continue
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 points, in addition, all is positiv. Here some pictures of Robinson Crusoe Islands
regards from Valdivia
Jean Claude Continue reading
SV NatHape – Nathalie + Hans Peter CH
If websites go travelling
Travelling the world, does not necessarily require to leaving the home. Sometimes it is enough to open an appropriate website to travel thousands of kilometers. This should be a website for this purpose. We want our esteemed visitors show the world as we experience it. Our impressions are far removed from any objectivity. So let me say that our experience very personal – and are no general have “validity” – that is extremely subjective. In addition, we are usually in very remote areas go. CONTINUE
Windpilot – back to our Roots
WINDPILOT – OUR ENGLISH ROOTS
The history of Windpilot since the company changed hands in 1976 is quite well-known, largely because of the unusual nature of the transaction: a straight swap, agreed on the spur of the moment while sailing, of a substantial sailing yacht for the contents of a dark workshop by some stables in the woods 25 miles or so from Hamburg. Nobody could quite believe it – me included! My wife did believe it though. And she didn’t like it. I was inspired by the possibilities, she fearful of the new uncertainty. The ensuing discussion opened more cans of worms than we could ever have hoped to close and the inevitable happened. Sometimes in life a nudge to the established order is all it takes to shake loose the veneer of normality and reveal the unstoppable momentum for change acting beneath. We find ourselves recognising what’s happening, why it’s happening and the inevitability of it happening all in the same short thought process. continue here
SV Civetta – Vlado Porvaznik SLO
A video that came in from my friend Vlado – whom I have never met since decades – but with whom I feel to be a close friend as we are very apparently very close in our mind – since so many years…
Thanks Vlado for your thoughts and thanks for the video – from a perfect world at sea…
Peter Foerthmann
Hinckley Picnic Boat – JetStick – Tom Serrao
BACK TO EARTH WITH A BUMP – experiences of an owner
A blog about motorboats? Are you serious? Why would sailors want to read about stinkboats? We know what they’re like, we know we don’t like them and that, frankly, is that. But then along comes the Hinckley Picnic Boat…continue
SV Olgalou – Inga + Vassil Beitz GER
Inga+Vassil married twice – aboard and ashore
Inga is a longterm cartoonist on this Windpilot Blog since years. She has illustrated quite a few pages and our friendly relationship is lasting for years – basicly since they contacted me by means of some active helming support … please read the 56 page panorama picture story
SV Anne – Nette+Stefan Wendl GER
FAMILY + 3 KIDS + THE ATLANTIC ROUND
Thats the plan and we will see what the reality will be. With a little bit of support from various sides, they will start on 3rd of july from the City Port of Hamburg, joining The European Odyssey of Jimmy Cornell via London / Cherbourg / La Coruna and Lanzarote to the West Indies… follow their blog please
SV Monsterpiu – Jayme Souza + Adriana Diniz Br
GUESTS at HAMBURG CITY MARINA
Jayme and Adriana from Brasil came to Germany to receive a brandnew HANSE 385 from the HANSE YARD in Greifswald. Delivery took some unexpected time so they decided to stay around Greifswald for nearly 2 months. They passed Hamburg on their way south. Jayme, a “God in White” – a surgeon – during his active working life in Brasil and Adriana Diniz, journalist and author are not under time pressure any longer, they want to stay aboard for some decades…. follow them on facebook please
Thoughts of an insider
REFLECTIONS
A couple of decades in the stern embellishment business have given me the opportunity to set foot on, or at the very least cast my eye over, the great majority of the thousands of different yacht designs produced around the world. While I have an obvious interest in – and something of an obligation to consider – the rest of the boat as well, it is the aft end of the beast that I regard as my specialist subject. CONTINUE
SV Golya – a new design of Dick Koopmans
Written by Dick Koopmans:
Designing Golya was a real pleasure, A lot of designs are designed around an interior, but not with this yacht. She is in the first place a sailing yacht. There still where some challenging requirements. She must be able to sail as a shorthand ocean racer while also it must be possible to trailer her. In races like OSTAR and Round Britain, there is a minimum length of 30 ft. (9,14 m). On the road, the with is limited to 2,5 m and from keel to top 3.65 m (depending on trailer type) is the limit.
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