Catana42s Boat Tour – The Deck You’ve seen why we chose a boat from the 1990s to live on , and you’ve had a look at the transom and aft cockpit upgrades and future plans, and now it’s time to share our ideas for the deck of Paikea. If you are familiar with our channel […]
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Catana 42s Boat Tour – Aft Section In our previous video we told you why we bought a 33 year old catamaran instead of nice new shiny one. Now it’s time to take you on a tour of the old girl. This week is all about the aft end of the bus. The transom and
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Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part Two — How It Actually Stays In Part One showed the build. This one answers the question that came in from almost everyone who watched it: how does that black carbon strap actually stay attached to the boat? It’s a fair question, and the answer is worth understanding properly, because
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Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part One Some jobs start small and grow into something else entirely. This one started with a bolt swap in Brittany. By the time it caught up with us properly, it had turned into a full chainplate rebuild — and Shayne was on the other side of the Atlantic delivering Gunboats
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Delivering the Gunboat 62: The Original Grand Lady of Gunboat Before even getting on the plane home from a three-part Transatlantic crossing on a Gunboat 68, and the phone rang again. Another Gunboat, another Atlantic crossing — this time one of the originals, stuck in the Azores and needing a hand to get home. There
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If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that losing a rudder mid-Atlantic and building a replacement at anchor in the Caribbean was not the plan. But it did give Shayne something invaluable: a reason to design the right rudders for Paikea from scratch, with real data to work from. This post walks through the design
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