From America’s Cup to Mini Maxis: What’s Next in Our Marine World It’s been a while since the last update, and there’s a good reason — a genuinely busy stretch of professional work that’s kept Paikea sitting on the back burner for longer than either of us would like. Parting Ways with the French America’s […]
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How to Tune a Catamaran Rig: A Professional’s Guide This is Shayne tuning the rig on a Belize 43 in Antigua — a Canadian boat called Passat whose owners had their wires replaced in the States, cruised the Caribbean, and now needed everything dialled back in after the initial stretch. The fundamentals here apply to
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Repairing the Starboard Hull: Paikea’s Crack Fix in Barcelona This picks up directly from Crack in the Hull and Asymmetric Rudders: Barcelona Refit Begins, where this crack was first found. With the hull crack confirmed and the extent of it clear, it was time to actually fix it — and, as it turned out, a
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3D Printed Rudder Winglets for Paikea Adding a 23kg printer to a boat you’re trying to lighten sounds like a contradiction. It is — but it’s a deliberate one, and this post explains the thinking behind it and what the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon has already made possible, including a project that had been sitting
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Crack in the Hull and Asymmetric Rudders: Barcelona Refit Begins With Paikea on the hard in Barcelona, it was time to lay out exactly what this refit actually involves — and the honest answer is: almost everything. The Full Strip-Out The interior’s coming out, all of it. It’s original timber — heavy, and in places
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Hauling Out Paikea: Discovering a Hull Crack and Starting Her Interior Refit We’re back in the Mediterranean, in Barcelona, which is roughly where this whole project started. It felt right to be back here for the next chapter — hauling Paikea out for her biggest refit yet. A Quick Recap of How We Got Here
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