FPB Series

A New Paradigm for Cruising

Design Objectives

FPB 64

FPB 83

FPB 83 On Deck

FPB 83 Interior

FPB 83 Systems

Passages

How Things Are Working Out

Press Coverage

Soungings Magazine,
April 2006, pages 38-42

"Against the Wind...With his new powerboat design, world cruiser Steve Dashew continues a lifelong pattern of challenging the status quo." (Check back soon for full article and photos, or to find the magazine go to www.soundingspub.com.)

PassageMaker Magazine,
April 2006

Check out the April 2006 issue of PassageMaker for "Making It Happen", a 10-page story by Steve and Linda about crossing oceans as a couple. (To find this magazine, go to www.passagemaker.com.)

Yachting World Magazine,
March 2006, pages 98-100

"Happy to Cross to the Dark Side: Yacht designer Steve Dashew on why he's given up fast sailing for an ocean crossing motorboat - one that can put in a 265-mile day." (Click here for full text and photos - 1 mb.)

Boat International Magazine,
January 2006, pages 86-90

"When the Dashews finally decided to resort to motive power, Steve Dashew designed a boat with the spirit of a yacht that could take on the roughest seas..." (Check back here soon for full article and photos.)

Yachting Magazine,
January 2006, pages 68-73

"There's nothing like 7,000 miles of open ocean to tell you if you've got it right. For sailboat designer Steve Dashew, his first power cruiser was a dream..." (Check back here soon for full article and photos.)

Docktalk,
December 2005, page 8

"Every now and then information lands in the Docktalk office that really fires the imagination. News that Steve Dashew's latest creation Wind Horse had completed her shakedown cruise caught everyone's attention, and although we weren't there to experience it ourselves, the DVD of the event had us enthralled..." (Check back soon for full article and photos.)

PassageMaker Magazine,
November-December 2005, pages 91-105

"...One of the coolest boats I have had the pleasure to spend time on. It is a radical design to some, but its features really expand and address alternatives to traditional boat design. It has inherent stability, but also has fin stabilizers and flopper-stoppers. It is a terrific sea boat, but is also a nice home for living aboard. In many ways it is a return to boat designs of the early part of the last century, with a long and lean hull. But it is also a pinnacle of technology within the caveat of maintaining self-sufficiency..." (Click here for full text and photos - 12.5mb.)

SeaHorse Magazine,
October 2005, pages 17-20

"Steve and Linda Dashew wrote the book on long-distance cruising - literally. Their long and slender 'unsailboat,' drawn with the benefit of countless miles at sea, could yet set new trends in its field. Wind Horse is practical but very far from spartan!" (Click here for full text and photos - 955kb.)

SeaSpray Magazine,
August-September 2005

Feature - pages 30-35

"This would have to be the most intriguing offshore cruising powerboat I have come across. Conceptually, Steve Dashew has possibly developed a new paradigm for offshore cruising..." (Click here for full text and photos - 367k.)

Publisher's Note - page 12
"Over the years I have been privileged to review various craft of all shapes, sizes and mode of propulsion. None quite as unique as the blue-water cruiser recently launched in New Zealand - the Dashew Offshore 83 Wind Horse..." (Click here for full text and photos - 81k.)

Boating New Zealand Magazine,
September 2005, pages 18-24

"'We're going out to test the boat in the roughest water we can find. You're welcome to come along - as long as you've got a strong stomach.' I assured Steve Dashew, American yacht designer, author, and long time cruiser, that I would be fine...I was also telling myself that this was a fantastic opportunity: to accompany Steve and Linda Dashew on a rough-water sea trial of their first motoryacht, the 83ft Wind Horse..." (Click here for full text and photos - 984k.)

Pacific Motor Yacht Magazine,
August-October 2005, pages 89-92

"Every so often a designer comes up with a vessel that is a radical departure from convention and while some fade into obscurity, the FPB83 from Steve Dashew will not be one of them. Barry Thompson spent an afternoon aboard Wind Horse, a few days prior to its delivery trip from Auckland to Los Angeles and discovered a vessel that could well become the benchmark for future ocean capable passagemakers." (Full text and photos will be available for download soon.)

Yachting Magazine,
July 2005

"If 'location, location, location' is the motto of the real estate business, then 'purpose, purpose, purpose' is the marine industry counterpart-a mantra no one believes as strongly as Steve Dashew. We saw how Dashew applied function to form in the conception of his legendary Deerfoot and Sundeer sailing yachts. He's at it again, but this time he's designed a motoryacht that he affectionately calls the Unsailboat." (Click here for full text and photos - 100k.)

Ocean Navigator Magazine,
September 2005, page 8

"Renowned circumnavigators Steve and Linda Dashew's latest project, a knife-like voyaging powerboat, underwent sea trials off New Zealand recently. The 83-foot vessel, which resembles a cross between a light- displacement Dashew sailboat and a Coast Guard surfboat, manages to cruise at 12.5 knots with its pair of 150-hp John Deere engines." (Click here for full text and photos - 66k.)