Commissioning and enjoying the best of Southern Asia Sailing Coinciding with the initial deliveries of the Seawind 1370, Seawind began refining its factory commissioning process, opting for a more personal and controlled experience. They found their answer in Phil Harper, an Aussie expat who’s called Thailand home for most of his adult life. Phil isn’t...
Sailing Butters blog began with two story tellers: Isabel and Marin, and their kid – Toni. Nurturing the dream of circumnavigating the world by sail boat, they started their journey in the middle of 2020 on the Seawind 1260 which called Butters. They have planned to conquer the Atlantic ocean since April, 2021 but it...
What our Seawind Community has been up to? Whoosh! We are fast approaching final quarter of 2021. Time flies when you’ve gone sailing! We say goodbye to September with the successful wrapup of the 2021 Southampton Boat Show, where the Seawind 1190 Sport, winner of Cruising World’s Boat of the Year, was on display. The 10-day event...
Get the opportunity to view the Seawind 1600 and 1160 October, the season of red leaves and pumpkins, is just around the corner. For the boating community, this means the U.S. Sailboat Show is taking place back to back at City Dock, as it does every October. The United States Sailboat Show, held on Oct...
Most times, sailing consists of cruising beautiful islands with dolphins greeting you day in and day out. But there are times when things get fuzzy and you need to be able to think and act with purpose – and knowing I can do that has made me a more adequate person in all realms of...
“Although we still prefer the looks of many monos, now I can’t imagine that we’ll ever want another boat, and certainly not a monohull!” by Christina Stam – Seawind 1160 Owner After 30 years of sailing in our 8.5-meter monohull on the Mediterranean Sea and in the Netherlands, we decided that we wanted a larger...
“Seawind treats us like we’re company stock holders with voting shares” Mark Hardesty On the 8th of July, Mark and Isabelle aboard their 2008 1160 “Jollydogs”, experienced a sailor’s worst fear while sailing from Hawaii to Seattle. At around 17:30 there was an enormous bang and Mark found himself thrown to the cockpit sole, having...
Many of you will have seen the announcement of our exciting new model which garnered great attention following our in-house webinars, virtual tours and the support of the YouTube community. But what you won’t have seen is all of the behind-the-scenes work we have been doing on current and future Seawind models. Our design team...
One of the catchiest phrases ever applied to sailing might be Lin and Larry Pardey’s “Go Simple, Go Small, Go Now”. It became their mantra, and was etched into sailing lore in their books from Crusing in Serafyn to Self Sufficient Sailor. Many others have since extolled the virtues of simply getting out there and...
