Author name: youngbarnacles

The reality of sailing fast with waves. Take a peak behind the scenes on board a Gunboar 68 delivery.

Another informative video filmed mostly at the top of our modified AC rig on a blustery 20+KT day! We’ve worked a lot on sound editing and video quality so hopefully you will enjoy this next YB update. Have you come across a halyard lock before? Do you have one on your boat already? This little

IridiumGO is our contact with the outside world once we are off shore and out of internet range. We can use it to communicate with family and friends, get our weather predictions and weather routing from predictWind and chart our course. It’s essential tech for any seafarer these days. In this episode we are making

Sealing leaky windows properly. How to makes sure that the windows on your boat stay sealed and the inside of your boat stays dry. The windows on Paikea are quintessential Catana design. They are curved and space-age looking but they are far from practical and downright expensive to replace. As (like most cruisers) our budget

The hotly debated topic of exposed helm stations on a catamaran. In this episode, we are traveling down the west coast of Portugal on a cold and rainy day. It’s not that pleasant outside so the question is – would we prefer to have our helm station nicely protected and out of the elements? Not

How to make waterline markers and why we think it’s such a good idea. Continuing on from our previous video on watching your weight, Shayne goes through the process of how we made the waterline markers for our catamaran. The idea behind this trick is to monitor how our boat is sitting in the water.