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Featured Post: FPB 97 – Code Name “Wicked”
“The 83ft-long (25m) wave-piercer…could easily be mistaken for the spawn of the Royal Navy with its unpainted battleship grey, all-aluminum body. But that day, in those conditions, it was the only boat that I would have wanted to climb aboard to face the English Channel.”
–Motor Boat & Yachting
Slicing through the barriers of what can and cannot be done with a large yacht, the Wicked FPB 97 redefines the cruising paradigm.
- Generator-free at anchor
- Crew optional voyaging
- 5000+ NM range at 11.7 knots
- Extreme weather survival capability, including capsize recovery
- Unprecedented interior design
- Five foot draft, and the ability to dry out on tidal rivers
- Toughest structure ever offered in a series built yacht
- Designed and constructed for minimum maintenance
The first FPB 97 has just started its construction cycle, so it will be the fourth quarter of 2014 before we can report on sea trials. In the interim, we’ve put together a detailed look at the thinking behind this Wicked new FPB.
First Passage: FPB 64 Iron Lady Surfing to Tonga in a Gale (May 16th, 2012)
With a bit of offshore experience under your belt, and the right yacht, preparing for and executing ocean crossings becomes routine. You will get to the point where you will decide to go on Monday, spend the next couple days provisioning, and be gone by Thursday. But the first time you head for the horizon, there’s going to be some trepidation. It happens with everyone.
FPB 64-5 Tiger Is About To Prowl (May 15th, 2012)
We are pleased to report that on this rainy morning in the Southern Hemisphere, Circa have given birth to a Tiger. Given the auspicious beginning, rain and on-schedule launching being good luck, we await with keen interest the reports to come from this newest of FPB 64s.
FPB 97-1 Night Lighting (May 14th, 2012)
We have an amazing array of rendering tools with which to simulate the real world. This weekend the task at hand (other than keeping an eye on the flora and fauna) is experimenting with night lighting, and it can get confusing at times.
Springtime in the Sonoran Desert – Why Ex Cruisers Settle Here in Spite of the Dangers (May 13th, 2012)
A springtime review of the area surrounding the world headquarters of Dashew Offshore has become somewhat of a tradition. This year we are also testing the high speed delivery system to its max, these images being harder on the pipeline than mere renderings.
We are often asked why we picked Southern Arizona as a base of operations when landbound. There are many reasons, and right now Mother Nature is showing one of them, just how alluring spring can be in the Sonoran desert. Surprisingly, there are a number of other circumavigators in the area (perhaps there should be a Southwestern USA circumnavigator association). All of the photos that follow were either taken on our property, or very close thereto.
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Finding the Confidence to Do It (May 11th, 2012)
As designers and builders, we think of our yachts as progeny and our clients as family. As such, we take great pleasure in the exploits of the former and the growth of the latter into accomplished voyagers. It is one of the main ingredients that keeps us coming back for more. Pete and Deb Rossin’s recently completed circumnavigation of New Zealand, including Stewart Island deep in the roaring forties, is a wonderful example of this.
A large part of Pete and Deb’s trip was in waters considered to be among the most hostile in the world. During the early part of their cruise they encountered an un-forecast force nine gale, 40 plus knots of wind gusting well into the 50s, with opposing current steepening the seas–at night of course.
Wicked Sex With The FPB 97 (May 8th, 2012)
It has been a very long day, with a previously short evening, and after three multi-hour Skype calls to different parts of the world, your correspondent is in need of a pick-me-up. There’s the cold Izze soda awaiting in the corporate lounge, and probably some cheese and crackers. But after a day like this what energizes the soul even more is a bit of Wicked sex.
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