Recycling Massive Carbon Fiber Battens There’s a rule on this boat that makes life simpler for anyone who ever has to work on her after us: if it’s black, it’s carbon and epoxy. Everything else is glass and polyester. It sounds like a small thing, but it means Shayne — or whoever owns this boat […]
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From America’s Cup Trash to Boat-Building Treasure: Our Paikea Refit Update It’s been a long haul of late nights and tired eyes, but we’re finally at a stage where we can step back and say, “Okay, we’re getting there,” rather than, “Oh, s#%t, what have we done?” Welcome back to the mess that is Paikea.
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Apparent Wind vs. True Wind: The Biggest Misconception in Sailing One instrument says upwind. Another says downwind. Both are looking at the same boat, the same moment, the same breeze. So which one’s lying? Neither. They’re measuring two genuinely different things, and mixing them up is one of the most common — and most consequential
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The Truth About Self-Tacking Jibs: Design & Compromises Ten different ways to build a self-tacking jib system, and every single one of them is a compromise. The question isn’t which system is best — it’s which compromises you’re willing to live with. This particular Gunboat 66 runs a track-and-car arrangement worth breaking down properly, because
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From Cardboard to CAD: Designing Paikea’s Shower Sump and Drain Every finished part on this boat starts somewhere unglamorous. This one started as cardboard. Before any of the actual bathroom floor took real shape, the design existed as a rough cardboard mock-up — cheap, fast, and disposable enough to get wrong a few times before
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