Does your laminate snap, crack and pop?! Do you know that you can tell a good lamination job from the way it sounds? Do you know how to hold your resin pot? Is it even a problem how you hold it? This video is a good solid introduction to fibreglassing for those who are just […]
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Work is continuing to progress and Shayne has made some beautiful carbon components for Paikea. We have decided to raise the attachment points for the new trampoline net we have purchased. It means we have had to remove and fill in hatches and glue on new tubes to tie the new net to. Shayne has
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Since we got rid of our original Catana built beam and put a new carbon fibre one in it’s place we need to rethink our forestay attachment point. Shayne also wants to add an attachment point for a staysail or trinket for us to use in heavier airs. The solution we have come up with
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Learn how to service vetus hydraulic steering frames in this video. These Vetus rams are at least 30 years old. They are super heavy but apart from that they are still functioning perfectly. Of course we would like newer rams (actually Shayne wants cable steering) but these old beauties just need a service and new
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Vacuum bagging carbon fibre laminate into place where our forestay fitting will be. This is a short clip from our upcoming video about reinforcing the areas on our carbon fibre longeron/beam section where we will attach the forestay and inner forestay. As we will be drilling holes into the existing carbon structure we will need
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Why use peel ply? What are the benefits of using peel ply? A quick chat on why peel ply is important in your consumables stack. This is a little bit of extra goodness from our how to vacuum bag complex geometry vids. If you haven’t seen these videos make sure you check them out as
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Removing the vacuum bag from our carbon fibre front beam after it has cured. If you watched our previous video on vacuum bagging our front beam you may be wondering what the end product looked like. Did we get the surface finish we were hoping for and did the vacuum bag work like we believed
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Launch date is fast approaching and we are nowhere near ready! Take a look at the jobs we have done so far and what we still need to do. We’ve completed the covers for the sail drives, glued the track on for the trampoline, painted the prop speed on the propellers and the kids are
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We have had quite a few comments on our YouTube channel asking how we go about the process of vacuum bagging our laminates. In this case, we have a wet laminate joining the hulls to the front beam which we need to put under a vacuum. It’s a tricky one as it’s not a flat
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I was lucky enough to stumble across an old spinnaker staysail tucked in the back corner of a sail container at the yard here. It was originally built by North Sails for the Swedish Victory Challenge campaign in 2007. A spinnaker staysail or in this case a SS 2-3 refers to the type and design
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