Flush Skin Fittings: Recycling Our Existing Through-Hulls for Less Drag The toilet inlet and the toilet outlet on Paikea were about 300mm apart. Anyone who has lived on a boat knows exactly what that means. The inlet was moving — three or four metres forward in the hull — and while we had the boat […]
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Boatyard Boredom? Not for These Two Young Sailors. While Paikea was on the hard and we were deep in the refit, Harry and Olly needed something to do. The yard next door had a little Gos 16 sitting unused and said they could sail it as much as they wanted. That was enough. The sails
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Sailing to Work: Paikea Delivers the Family to the Gunboat 68 Launch We sailed to France for work. That’s the short version. The longer version involves a half-finished mainsail, a plastic bag around the propeller in the dark, three boys who turned out to be surprisingly useful, and a front-row seat at the launch of
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