Crane Haul Out Without a Spreader Bar The local travel lift wasn’t going to work. Paikea’s beam is too wide, so a crane was the only option — which meant more logistics, more preparation, and a slightly higher pucker factor when your home is dangling in a sling thirty feet off the ground. We had […]
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Catamaran Hull Damage Repair: What We Found Under a Bad Fix When we bought Paikea there was a small repair above the rudders that didn’t sit right. The previous owner had a story about it — a cable, he said. We were fairly sure he was telling porky pies. Grinding it back confirmed it. The
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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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