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Diagnosing and Repairing Hull Delamination: A Real Structural Repair, Not a Cosmetic One

Diagnosing and Repairing Hull Delamination: A Real Structural Repair, Not a Cosmetic One Pulling up an old floor panel to find “a little bit of delamination” turned into a full structural repair once the actual extent of the damage became visible. Finding the crack, and following it further than expected A suspected crack in the […]

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removing the bulkhead and inspecting delamination in hull

Reinforcing a Doorway Bulkhead: Beam Theory in Practice

Reinforcing a Doorway Bulkhead: Beam Theory in Practice A doorway bulkhead looks like a small, unimportant piece of structure. Get the engineering behind it wrong, and it isn’t. Why this small section needed real reinforcement This particular bulkhead section sits on the outboard side of the boat, carrying a genuine structural job: supporting a real

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The Unglamorous Side of a Refit: Fairing, Filling, and Fixing Leaks

The Unglamorous Side of a Refit: Fairing, Filling, and Fixing Leaks Most of a refit isn’t the exciting part people picture — it’s fairing compound, sanding, and prep, week after week. Here’s what a week of that actually looks like on Paikea’s port side. Harry’s Room, Reconfigured Harry’s room — the kids’ hull — has

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Hull Weight Reduction & Flush Hatch Installation: Paikea Refit Update

Hull Weight Reduction & Flush Hatch Installation: Paikea Refit Update Watching the waterline creep down, tide line by tide line, over the better part of a year is one of the more satisfying kinds of progress on this refit — slow, cumulative, and now finally starting to show. Why this started as a repair job

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Paikea's waterline clearly shows she is sitting higher in the water

Widening Structural Doorways Beside a Chainplate — and a Watertight Forward Hatch

Widening Structural Doorways Beside a Chainplate — and a Watertight Forward Hatch Two genuinely different projects came together this week: a new watertight hatch for the bow, and a structural modification most people shouldn’t attempt without a proper engineering background — widening doorways immediately next to a chainplate-bearing bulkhead. A Watertight Forward Hatch, Built Like

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Cutting a Structural Bulkhead for Headroom: The Beam Theory Behind It

Cutting a Structural Bulkhead for Headroom: The Beam Theory Behind It Constant head-smacking on a low door frame is a genuine, recurring injury on this boat — the kind of thing that’s easy to live with for years and then finally worth fixing properly, now that the boat’s mid-construction and the freedom to re-engineer things

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