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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 detail worth knowing before the rest of this story: the winches carry slave rings at their base, a small fitting that lets a line get redirected to a free winch without ever touching one that’s already tied up with another job — a furling
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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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Emergency Lamination: Fixing Paikea’s Solar Arch Before Shayne Leaves Antigua, weeks out from hurricane season, and Shayne’s just been asked to help deliver a Gunboat 68 from the Caribbean to France. Paikea stays put — Anna and the kids will be aboard her the whole time he’s away. Before he leaves, one job that’s been
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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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