How We Sailed Our Catamaran 800 Nautical Miles With One Rudder Losing a rudder 800 nautical miles from land is the kind of problem that reshapes everything about how a boat gets sailed for the rest of a passage. This is the real story of what that actually looked like — the routing decisions, the […]
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Losing a Rudder 800nm from Land It didn’t announce itself. There was no bang, no sudden drama — just Paikea feeling increasingly wrong through the night. The rudders were going to 20 degrees to keep the boat bearing away. Normally if the boat’s out of balance you’d see 10 to 12 degrees of rudder angle.
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Atlantic Sailing: Daggerboard Control, Watermaker Maintenance & Speed Secrets There’s a version of offshore sailing that looks like one continuous, deliberate passage plan. The reality, most days, is closer to a string of small problems solved in real time — and a good tradewind leg across the Atlantic tends to produce exactly that kind of
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Downwind Spinnaker Trim: Windward Bow, Twist, and Reading the Apparent Wind Halfway across the Atlantic, in solid 20-knot trade winds with the sea state finally settling down, is about as good a moment as any for a proper downwind trim lesson — and this one covers something that trips up a lot of sailors moving
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Part 2 of our Atlantic journey. We are mid Atlantic on our modified Crowther catamaran. The ride so far has been fast and sometimes a bit fruity. We discover that the mainsail batten pockets are loading up too much as we placed them too close to the reefing points and have to repair with some
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The first in our Atlantic Ocean crossing series. A light airs start from Las Palmas following the Moroccan coastline proved interesting when we were approached by a Moroccan patrol boat. We suspect they were looking for smugglers (drugs/people) as they asked us to report to them if we saw any suspicious activity. As we are
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