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 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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How to Sail a Gunboat 68 Upwind: Mastering Apparent Wind Leaving Port-Camargue on a Gunboat 68, crossing the Gulf of Lion under a fresh offshore breeze — flat water for most of the transit, and plenty of wind to work with. A good day to talk through what actually happens to apparent wind as boat
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Catamaran Front Beam Load Paths: Why We Replaced Aluminium with Carbon The original aluminium front beam on Paikea worked. It had done 45,000 miles. But understanding why we replaced it requires understanding what a front beam actually has to do — and the original arrangement was doing it in a way that had some significant
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Paikea’s First Sea Trial: Carbon Front Beam, New Rudders, and a Midnight Sewing Job The sea trial almost didn’t happen on schedule. When we’d left for France earlier in the build — when Shayne was stepping the Gunboat 68 rig — Anna had set the mainsail head webbing in an approximate position, the intention being
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Sea Trials With Our New Mainsail Motor testing only tells you so much. To really know if a rebuilt boat is sound, you have to load it up under sail and see what happens. Paikea had already been out under motor to test the new front beam, longeron, folding propellers, rudders, flush skin fittings, and
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