Why We Had to Fix Our Mast Rake — and What Happens When You Get It Wrong Two years ago we replaced Paikea’s front beam with a custom carbon one. The new beam was angled upwards to lift the trampoline higher — better clearance, better performance. What we didn’t fully account for was that raising […]
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Engineering Paikea’s Rig: Adapting America’s Cup Technology for Cruising April 2023 Taking an IACC mast and making it work on a cruising catamaran isn’t a matter of cutting it to length and stepping it. Every system on the original rig was designed for a grand prix racing programme with a full crew, unlimited budget, and
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From America’s Cup to Our Catamaran: Rescuing a Carbon Legend We’d been stuck in Valencia during the COVID lockdown when we came across a piece of sailing history that was about to be destroyed. Rig #12 from Team New Zealand’s 2000 America’s Cup campaign — later used by the French challenger in the 2007 Cup
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