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The Right Way to Bolt Into a Carbon Fibre Boat: Threaded Inserts vs. Helicoils

The Right Way to Bolt Into a Carbon Fibre Boat: Threaded Inserts vs. Helicoils Mounting a Clark pump for the watermaker onto a bulkhead sounds like a small job. Getting the threading right underneath it is where the actual engineering happens. Why bolt-into-composite matters more than it looks like it should The plan here is […]

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Sealing leaky windows properly

Sealing Leaky Windows Properly Paikea’s windows are quintessential Catana — curved, space-age looking, and about as impractical and expensive to replace as boat windows get. On a modest cruising budget, new windows were never really on the table. So the job became fixing what we had rather than replacing it. The crazing in the perspex

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Why We Love Our Exposed Helm Stations

Why We Love Our Exposed Helm Stations Helm station design might be the most hotly debated topic in catamaran circles — and usually by people who’ve never actually sailed one. Shayne’s spent years on both leaning monohulls and multihulls, driven a fair range of boats from race-oriented to cruiser-oriented, and seen his share of genuinely

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How to Make Waterline Markers (And Why We Think It’s Such a Good Idea)

How to Make Waterline Markers (And Why We Think It’s Such a Good Idea) Continuing on from our previous video about watching your weight, Shayne takes us through the process of how we made waterline markers for our catamaran. The idea behind this trick is simple: to give you a visual tool to monitor how

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Boat Weight Management: Why Your Multihull’s Performance Depends On It

Why Weight Is Critical on Your Multihull Every self-tapping screw on this boat has been weighed. Not because it matters individually — because the sum of a hundred small things nobody thinks to weigh always adds up to more than expected. Before leaving the marina after months of refit work, everything that had been stripped

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Sailing with the Code 0 and Our First Choice for Furler

Sailing with the Code 0 and Our First Choice for Furler The whole point of replacing Paikea’s aluminium front beam with a carbon beam, longeron, and bow pole was sail inventory. A stronger front end doesn’t mean much on its own — what it actually buys you is the ability to fly sails the old

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