Correcting Mast Rake: Why It Matters and How We Fixed Two Years of Too Much When we built and fitted Paikea’s new carbon front beam, we knew we were changing more than just the beam. The original beam, like most catamaran front beams, sat flat. Ours doesn’t — we couldn’t source a single piece of […]
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Engineering Paikea’s Rig: Adapting America’s Cup Technology for Cruising 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 a single
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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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