Daggerboard Crash Box: Building a Watertight Safety Compartment Why We’re Building a Crash Box With the floors already out and the boat this far stripped down, adding a crash box behind the daggerboard case made sense. It’s a genuine safety upgrade — secondary flood protection in case the daggerboard case is breached. The concept is […]
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Daggerboard Load Paths: Why Bulkhead Position Matters More Than Size Two genuinely different problems came up working around Paikea’s daggerboard case this week: how to support a floor over geometry you can’t physically reach to laminate, and why a bulkhead’s position matters more than how much material is in it. The Problem: A Floor With
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Halfway Through the Floor Replacement: 300kg Down and Counting Harry’s floor is coming up next — an estimated 30kg once it’s out, though the real number won’t be known until it’s actually on the scale. Getting there means working through 30-something-year-old screws, most badly corroded, and a full sheet of plywood backing that’s coming out
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Azores to Gibraltar: Sailing Paikea Upwind Across the Atlantic We left Horta on the island of Faial with about a thousand nautical miles between us and Gibraltar, and we weren’t going to get there in a straight line. The plan was to sail up past Terceira, tuck into the eastern side of a high pressure
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