Gunboat 68 Transatlantic Debrief: Q&A on Rudders, Boards, and Cockpit Systems With the delivery done, Shayne caught up with Anna to walk back through the trip — what the job actually involved, and to answer the questions that came in from the video series along the way. The job itself A delivery like this is […]
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: From the Azores to Toulon A week in the Azores brought the rudder repair to completion — a new rudder case fitted, and a rudder blade borrowed from a sister Gunboat 68 flown in and installed. Fully repaired and back in sailing condition, but the forecast for the final leg
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: Losing a Rudder Mid-Ocean A cockpit feature worth knowing about before the rest of this story: slave rings. They’re a small, unassuming ring fitted at the base of a Harken 990 winch, and they solve a problem every loaded cockpit eventually runs into — a winch tied up with one
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: Light Air, Big Miles Day three, maybe four, of a Gunboat 68 delivery from the west side of the Atlantic back to Europe — and the wind’s done almost nothing since departure. Eleven knots has been the ceiling. For most boats, that’s a day for the engine and a long
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We are in Antigua and it’s just weeks away from Hurricane Season. Shayne has been asked to help deliver a Gunboat 68 from the Caribbean to France while Anna and the kids stay behind with Paikea. It means last minute repairs to the carbon solar panel bracket we put together in Cadiz, Spain. See our
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A Winch Override Trick, Wing Foiling Barbuda, and Everything We’ve Broken So Far Some passages are about getting somewhere. This one, from Antigua to Barbuda, ended up being about a lot more than that — a genuinely useful winch fix, an afternoon of wing foiling with an unexpected turtle cameo, and a moment of total
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