Hi Pat, We used PW for routing with 54 polars and found them very optimistic. Maybe we are conservative sailors but we had to set the polar ratio to 80% to get realistic times. As far as the weather

Hi Jeff, The well known cruising yacht “Totem” is doing this at the moment. They have blog and most likely will write up the experience as they go or just after. Cheers, James.

Great, thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.

Hi Pat, I agree that PW isn't always spot on. I look at Passageweather.com and windyty.com as well as PW before a passage. There is often at least one outlier but a pretty good sense of what is

Though it may be a different market, we should all be hopeful that AMEL succeeds with this new design. Both for their sake and ours. They are good people who deserve respect and continued success .

Hi All, Having spent some time visiting the Amel factory last week and looking at the production of the Amel 50, all i can add is the dedication and attention to detail is still extremely

There is a setting that you can use instead of actual polars where you more or less tell it how fast your boat goes under certain conditions. Sort of the kid's version of the polars. It's called

We use PW together with IGo very user friendly and good service. The problem I have is that you get 4 different forecasts, if I ask someone for an advice or opinion I want a straight answer, not four

Good Morning Amelians, I was wondering if anyone has run up the Pacific coast up to Costa Rica after transiting the PC? Jeff Spirit Amel 54 #14

I know many owners have PredictWind, a couple questions. Have you made passages following their routes, have they proved accurate. They suggested using the 54's polars as they do not have it for the

Thank you Ian and Judy for the heads up about the review. I read Hare's article and appreciated her point of view. She mentions the weaknesses of the design: high windage, required reliance on the

This is the products we use keep mosquitoes out, it have even keep some rats to stay In the cockpit, a few times we have found droppings from rats in the

Thank you Steve. All excellent points. I think we’ll know if we get the visa while in Panama, If not. We’ll then delay on the American continent. We’ve also considered the gambier islands for

We were put off by the idea of the fixed screens because of theforward head hatch set up with the support bar. There is no way I could livewithout all the hatches matching perfectly – it is the OCD

Good morning Ian, Sorry you never heard from the guy… The only reference to the size is 1080. Here is the original invoice: http://www.nikimat.com/factures/2014_12_23_shopepal.jpg That is for

Good morning Ian, I did not put an Oceanair on the aft cabin as I already had a mosquito net for that hatch. Sincerely, Alexandre --------------------------------------------

Those are great screens. You guys did a fantastic, economical job. The other reason for our interest in the Oceanair product is to replace our current hatch curtains. We had the Oceanair on our last

Here is the pic if it didn't come through

Ian & Duane, Save yourselves$1000 or $270 per hatch and make your own screens. We fabricated these out ofstarboard and glued mesh onto them with a hot-glue gun. They can be deployed frominside or