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
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.
Moin Herr Foerthmann, wir sind gut in Brasilien angekommen und die Windpilot hat wunderbar gesteuert!!
Da ich im Mai einmal in Deutschland bin, hier die Bitte, sie an unsere Adresse zuzusenden. Wäre das möglich? Gerne vielleicht vorsichtshalber auch gleich zwei davon. 
Moin Familie Schelbach,
Ist schon witzig, dass einige US Segler am liebsten um eine ganze Tuete von Ersatz bítten … um exakt die gleiche Erklärung zu erhalten … wie diese.
Dear Peter, Nine years ago, I bought you a Pacific and sailed to French Polynesia.
Hello Peter,
