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  • Steve Dashew says: Hi Don: The flybridge helm’s main protection comes from the flybridge awning. The helm box,...
  • Don says: Steve, I’m just now discovering your fpb-64 but have some awareness (and much admiration) of the...
  • David Sutton says: Dear Steve, Damn those moments of inattention! Sometimes it is our own lapses that are our worst...
  • Steve Dashew says: Hi John: In normal weather one fin is fine, and we have already tested the boat this way, so we...
  • Steve Dashew says: John: Bottom line – sloppy seamanship on the part of the captain. No excuse for it. Lets...
  • Steve Dashew says: Hi Scott: There molds were old and distorted. They say they have made new molds since. The smaller...
  • John Ginn says: Sorry this happined to you.” I assume you will be running on one fin until you can get a...
  • John Poparad says: •Failed to carefully read and reread the pilot book data. •Not wearing polarized sunglasses which...
  • Scott Evangelista says: Steve, I was really surprised to find out that you had to “refrabricate” the...
  • Victor Raymond says: Steve, Sorry to learn of this (mis)fortunate occurrence. The most useful revelation for me is...
  • darryl says: I have to 20 hp outboard motors that run great without their covers but then stall out once covers are...
  • Peter Bateman says: Please check the print, YBY, from top to bottom, is a West cardinal buoy, being safe to pass on...
  • Steve Dashew says: Thanks for the comments: Answers to questions… 1-Aluminum fins would transmit too much load...
  • Mike Mayer says: Bummer. And you picked the ugliest cala on Majorca. When we made our landfall there with Astra our...
  • scott davis says: An unfortunate moment for sure………̷ 0;pleased to hear it wasn’t...
  • Matt Marsh says: I would have sworn that was a west cardinal buoy…. and, were it not for the fact that my boat...
  • Bob N says: A good reason to build future fins in aluminium? Or do you think it best to build them to be sacrificial?
  • phillip gibbins says: When this happened to me, I questioned whether if we only still had paper charts for...
  • phillip gibbins says: You think how many people ding their car, just takes one small lapse of judgement, sorry you...
  • Ray Richards says: Steve, Jim Rogers sicked me onto your site. Most enjoyable, but I ask you: Of what use are hunking...
  • Steve Dashew says: Hola Scott: We’ll have a few details up in the next week or so.
  • Jim Rogers says: Thanks for taking me back to Formentera. For me, the best days there were in the late spring with a...
  • Scott Evangelista says: Steve, Great pictures but the biggest hook for me was your conversation with Todd…I am...
  • Matt Marsh says: Re. the party cat: Those barrels are also adding something like 10-15 kN.m of righting moment if you...
  • Steve Dashew says: Hola Luis: The clothing comment was intended as humor. It was rather funny seeing someone trying...

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