Anna

Shayne and Anna Young aka the youngbarnacles.
Creating a space for fellow boat nerds interested in performance sailing and improving their sailing experience.

Edge Capping a Cored Panel: Packing Unidirectional Fibre Into a Tight Channel

Edge Capping a Cored Panel: Packing Unidirectional Fibre Into a Tight Channel Following on from the beam-theory reasoning behind cutting a bulkhead for headroom, this is the actual execution — getting calculated unidirectional fibre packed properly into a narrow routed channel, which turned out to be a genuinely different challenge from laminating it onto a

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Rebuilding a Forward Bunk: Beam Boxes, Panel Span, and Water Catchment

Rebuilding a Forward Bunk: Beam Boxes, Panel Span, and Water Catchment Rebuilding Harry’s forward bunk space meant moving his bed further back and lowering it slightly for more comfort and width — straightforward on its own, but it sits right beside two bulkheads doing real structural work, which meant thinking carefully about what could change

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composite floor and bunk

Reading an Infusion: Flow Fronts, Close-Outs, and Chasing Air Leaks (Members)

This one’s for members Our members library is where the real work lives: original technical content from the people who did the work, using materials and methods from the highest levels of the sport. Inside our Membership Site: Extended video walkthroughs from Paikea’s refit and our professional jobs New members videos uploaded regularly Downloads and

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post infusion resin flow analysis

Infusion Resin vs. Hand Lamination Resin: Why They’re Chemically Different

Infusion Resin vs. Hand Lamination Resin: Why They’re Chemically Different A small floor for one of the bathrooms turned into a genuinely advanced infusion setup — two hoses, careful bag geometry, and a resin switch that ended up solving more problems than it caused. Fixing the Table for Good The plywood laminating table’s leak problem,

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