SV Moana Nui – Richard + Marianne de Bruijn NED
WASSERBREMSEN – PACIFIC PLUS – SCHLAFENDE FISCHE
Dear Mister Foerthmann, On our Contest 42 we are using a Windpilot Pacific Plus and are very happy with it.
Kategorie: Windpilot
SV Max – Pertti Pesonen FR
BENETEAU FIRST 27.7 – 4 YEARS OF SUN IN SICILY
Hi Peter, I just installed my Windpilot light. It was the winter inside of the cabin in shelter. The windblade does not move freely and squecks. See video. How to lubricate? Thanks for fast advice. My trip starts.
regards from
Pertti
10 MINUTES LATER: Pertti, the solution is so simple: Siliconspray everywhere and the salt chrystals will dissolve and disappear!
Peter
Hi Peter, Thank you for the rapid answer. I was hesitating between WD-40, oil and silicon. Silicon did it and the movement feels normal now 
My boat is in Sicily and the water being very salty, I regret not rinsing the vane with sweet water before winter. Next time!
The vane has happily steered my First for four summers in Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. I cannot imagine sailing without it!
Best regards,
Pertti Pesonen SV Max
2025 Ostern
AUGENFUTTER
SV Rascal – John Bacon US
WINDPILOT – AGAIN AND AGAIN
Hi Peter, about ten years ago I bought a Windpilot from you, you delivered it to the States and I put it on using a dinghy while anchored in Long Island Sound. It was a complete game changer for me and I sailed thousands of miles singled handed, it never let me down.
Now I have a small wooden boat, a Holman 26, a folk boat derivative and would like to buy a Pacific Light, what can you offer, do you ever have refurbished Windpilots ?
I hope you are well, we are all getting old. I remember seeing you at the London Boat Show in the late 1970’s.
With best wishes
John Bacon
GGR Netzgeplänkel
WURDE MIR KÜRZLICH ZUGETRAGEN
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SV Sweet Pea – Victor Contento US
BOOKS COMMENT – IN THE SERVICE OF AEOLUS
Hi Peter. Your book is one of a class! It reads easily, gives information, it’s entertaining, and the narrative navigates many unpredictable sharps corners that takes it into the category of a thriller too.
I like all and some parts are at the edge of the impossibility spectrum, like when you describe how got the original Windpilot from an impulse buyer as a trade for your boat, who could replicate that?
Your retrospect about the boat expo could not be more descriptive , attending as a visitor only a few of them, sufficed me to stay away from many others and imaging what could be on the expositor side, and you survived two hundred plus!
Around here and ,God forbid Newport, Maryland or Florida, those events are becoming an expensive proposal por most of the average sailors, not the tickets by itself ,but the Hotels, transportation and parking.
Your snippets about boats , circumstances and people add a lot of spice to the stories with some sobering aspect about some of them.
You had a varied and challenging life, and your legacy is distributed around the world via a magnificent, sculpted aluminum billet , what an amazing triumph!
I feel proud to own one of your masterpieces and notice my elevated status when other sailors ask me about it.
The illustrations , design ,and printing and format of the book are first class . Thank you for your gift, I appreciated it.
In them is shown a homemade accessory that I installed at the Pilot power bar to regulate the tension of the line length, replaces the shortening block provided with the advantage of not necessitating to remove the line from the eye ropes at both sides below the coamings at the end of the trip.
Also I included a few screenshot of the drawings produced prior to installing the Gear in the Cape paying atención to instructions and making sure that all details were understood before drilling any holes.
Happy spring to you and your wife , thank you for your help during my orders and let’s cheer for your new life as a writer!
Regards
Victor CONTENTO MA US
St. Helena – Nalopeon´s finales Zuhause
AUGENFUTTER – BILDERBOGEN
credit to Ingrid + Timm Pfeiffer, Sebastian Groth, Jeremy Bagshaw,
KI oder nicht?
ABOUT TRUSTWORTHYNESS – WO KOMMT DAS VERTRAUEN HER?
Hi Peter, As we live in a strange world where trust is sometime flouted and to make it more real can you please send me a picture of the unit with you beside ready for dispatch in its boxe and I will proceed to the bank transfer.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards
Olivier
Gedankenspritzer
MARZENA + PETER AUF DEM FLIEGENDEN TEPPICH – EIN AUFTRAG
Peter + Presse II
WASSERJOURNALISTEN
SV Papalagi – Mick Segebarth GER
Ein PANTOMIME, der REDEN und SEGELN kann
