How to Bolt into Carbon Fibre: 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 bolting into composite matters The plan here is straightforward on the surface: carbon plates bonded to the […]
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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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This content is for Youngbarnacles members. The technical library, forum, and downloads are available to members only. If you’re not a member yet, here’s what you get access to — 25+ years of grand prix composite and rigging knowledge documented in depth, one new members-only video every month, and a technical forum where people building
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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) 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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