How to Trim the Mainsheet on a Gunboat 68 Reaching under an A3 spinnaker with the first reef tucked in, daggerboards well out — two metres on the leeward board, two and a half on the windward — because the apparent wind is still forward enough to want to push the boat sideways, even with […]
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Boat Door Design: What a Gunboat 68 Gets Right A question that comes up often enough to deserve a proper answer: is it normal for your catamaran’s doors and lockers to jam shut while sailing? No. Not on a well-built boat, and it shouldn’t be accepted as normal on any boat — even a soft,
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The Performance Catamaran Comfort Trade-Off Four in the morning, twelve knots upwind, and no sleep to speak of. This is what fast actually costs. People ask for a fast boat all the time. The honest answer worth giving back is a question: do you actually want a fast boat, or do you want the idea
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Making a Solar Bracket and Leaving Cadiz Three days to build a new solar mounting frame from scratch, before a weather window slams shut and Paikea’s first real open-ocean passage begins. How the old frame broke The original solar frame took damage from something every liveaboard sailor eventually experiences: an anchor that didn’t hold. Riding
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Another informative video filmed mostly at the top of our modified AC rig on a blustery 20+KT day! We’ve worked a lot on sound editing and video quality so hopefully you will enjoy this next YB update. Have you come across a halyard lock before? Do you have one on your boat already? This little
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Making an Iridium GO Aerial Bracket Somewhere on every boat’s list is a job that looks simple, turns out not to be, and drags on for months anyway. This was one of those. Getting the Iridium GO’s aerial mounted and working meant, first, admitting a seven-dollar plastic fitting wasn’t going to cut it — wrong
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