Boat Systems on board Paikea

Navigation and Instruments

Analysis Tools

Performance Tools

Design Tools

Power

Water

External Upgrades

  • Transom extension
  • Carbon/nomex solid hardtop for cockpit. Constructed using solid carbon super yacht spreaders and the forward deck of the old Spanish 2007 America’s Cup yacht. Complete with a sunroof which was the old spinnaker launching hatch
  • New steering consoles manufactured to fit into new hardtop arrangement
  • New carbon longeron and bow pole. Made using America’s Cup mast section. Bow pole extends a metre out from the boat and allows us the ability to fly a Code 0 and asymmetric mast head and fractional spinnakers. We now also have a fitting placement for the inner forestay and storm sail.
  • New carbon front beam. This was made from 2 smaller sections of America’s Cup mast we salvaged. It inserts the bows and is joined to the hull at both the inboard and outboard sides of the bow. This configuration has strengthened and stiffened the entire front of the boat
  • Carbon Seagul Striker was repurposed from a carbon spreader and we made the carbon Martingale strap
  • New Dynex trampoline and raised placement of netting. Trampoline netting sourced from Netsystems
  • Carbon fibre chainplates and new bulkhead inserts to replace rotten bulkhead and stainless steel chainplates.

Sail Inventory

  • Main – Hydranet (spectra) 2 metre square top mainsail recut from mini maxi 72ft race boat delivery main
  • J1 (jib)- Carbon 3DI jib recut from mini maxi 72 ft race boat headsail
  • Masthead asymmetric spinnaker aka Big A – recut from RC 44 spinnaker. The range in which we run this sail below is VERY weather dependent. In light airs we can go higher than in heavier winds.
    • Wind range up to 10 kts true wind.
    • TWA range approx 180 – 80 degrees
    • AWA range approx 170 – 60 degrees
  • Fractional asymmetric spinnaker – AKA Frankie recut from RC 44 spinnaker. The range in which we run this sail below is VERY weather dependent. In light airs we can go higher than in heavier winds.
    • Wind range 10 – 25kts true
    • TWA range approx 180 – 80 degrees
    • AWA range approx 170 – 60 degrees
  • Code 0 – recut from America’s Cup spinnaker staysail
  • Storm sail – Carbon 3DI jib recut from Carkeek 47

Deck Hardware

Steering

  • McGonaghy carbon fibre steering wheels x 2 which are actually modified ex- America’s Cup 2007 trim tab wheels
  • Vetus hydraulic steering rams – original with the boat.
  • New composite rudders with carbon fibre stock from C-tech New Zealand 1st gengeration made from taking a mould from an 2007 America’s Cup rudder and second generation rudders designed by Shayne

Engines

  • Volvo Penta 28 hp x 2 original with boat

Galley

  • Induction/Gas combination cooktop – we chose this option as gas can be hard to source and is extra weight to carry. We decided on a combination as we are already carrying a gas tank for our BBQ and could hook up the gas hob should we ever have low power issues on the boat.

Crew Essentials

  • Head torch kids with red light Petzl Actik Core
  • Shayne and Anna’s head torch Exposure RAW Pro