Making a Composite Rudder Part Two: Laminating, Fairing and Getting It on the Boat There was a deadline on this one. Shayne had accepted a job as rigger for the French America’s Cup team and we needed to get to Barcelona. Five days to finish two rudder blades, get them installed, and be ready to […]
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Making a Composite Rudder Part One: Shaping the Foam Blank This footage starts mid-Atlantic. We’re three days without a port rudder, still four or five days out from land, watching the rudder angle readout and trying to keep it between two and five degrees in normal conditions. The breeze is light so we’ve got the
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Our Custom Mainsail Reefing System: How It All Works A lot of reefing complaints come down to the same root cause: an undersized system trying to do a job it was never built for. Small 24mm track with basic sliders jams under real load, sails get hard to hoist, reefing downwind becomes genuinely difficult —
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Engineering Paikea’s Rig: Adapting America’s Cup Technology for Cruising Taking an IACC mast and making it work on a cruising catamaran isn’t a matter of cutting it to length and stepping it. Every system on the original rig was designed for a grand prix racing programme with a full crew, unlimited budget, and a single
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Catana 42 Boat Tour: The Deck Last time we covered the back end of the boat and the cockpit. This time it’s everything in the middle and up on deck — what this boat came with, what’s stayed, and what’s already changed. The Hardtop and the Moonroof Starting at the back of the hardtop extension:
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Catana 42 Boat Tour: The Aft Section Thirty years old, and the back end of this boat is still one of the best-thought-out parts of her. This is where that becomes obvious. The Back Step: Small Change, Big Difference The back step got a small modification early on — a little edge added to make
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