RYA Coastal skipper coarse
RYA Coastal skipper training at Zeezeilers van Marken End of May I followed the RYA Coastal Skipper training at the Zeezeilers van Marken. It was an intensive five day’s practical coarse. If you are looking for a good practical coarses in tidal streams, Zeezeilers van Marken in Harlingen is a good place to be. They […]
JPK Composites
Factory visit at the JPK Composites shipyard From our home at Oosterzee, it is a 1.081 km drive to the JPK Composites shipyard in Larmor Plage (Lorient). We took a Thursday and Friday off, for the first visit during the manufacturing of our JPK. Friday afternoon is the best time for a visit, because most […]
Electric propulsion
Why we want to go for electric propulsion? In 2022 we sailed from Scheveningen to Brest. There was little wind and we motored quite some miles. Fuel was expensive, and when we paid in Brest the costs for diesel € 500,-, electric propulsion was on our mind again. If we had more time we would […]
A good electrical yacht design is really important.
A good electrical yacht design is really important. You might ask why? Well for many reasons, and safety is the most important one. Good electrical yacht design, what is it about? Even though we are not physically building our boat, there is a lot of work we have done to come this far. This is […]
JPK 39FC, She’s out of the mold
JPK Composites keeps their yachts at least one month in the mold to cure. After that, an exiting moment in the building poces, is to split the mold. Our new born beauty, a JPK 39FC, is there. Now she shows her cheeks. The wide open stern shows a lot of space, quite different from other […]
JPK 39 FC, beginning of construction
Our new JPK 39 FC, is now under construction. It is happening in Larmor Plage at JPK Composites. Jean Pierre Kelbert posts us some pictures every now and then. We haven’t been able to visit the construction yet, but this will come soon. Building a JPK 39 FC, how does it go? It has been […]
publishmyyacht.com
Since you can only sail one boat at the time, we had two ladies to say farewell to. Best thing to do would to put them on a boat market place. And this we did on publishmyyacht.com. publishmyyacht.com as a test We wanted to practice web page building, and our test became this little boat […]
JPK 39 FC is what we decided for
JPK 39 FC, Fast and Comfortable You might ask, why we’d decided for this JPK 39 FC? Our selection criteria Well, we were looking for a fast sailing yacht of around 36 ft. Fast, not just because it is fun to overtake another, but also for safety. But we did not want the spartan, staid […]
Welcome to fastcruising.yachts
There she is, fastcruising.yachts Welcome to our new site fastcruising.yachts, launched Today. We are Piet and Ester and this is our first post. These web pages, as well as our new JPK 39 FC, a beautiful fastcruising yacht, are under construction. The launch of our yacht will be in May or June. It has been […]
