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From Cardboard to CAD: Designing Paikea’s Shower Sump and Drain Every finished part on this boat starts somewhere unglamorous. This one started as cardboard. Before any of the actual bathroom floor took real shape, the design existed as a rough cardboard mock-up — cheap, fast, and disposable enough to get wrong a few times before
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Why a Shower Floor Isn’t as Simple as It Looks A shower floor sounds like the simplest thing on a boat to build. It isn’t — not once you account for a boat that never sits quite level. The trim problem nobody warns you about A cruising catamaran doesn’t stay put transversely — she’s stable
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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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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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Author: Shayne and Anna Key Message: The most important part of a structural refit is understanding and optimizing load paths. By relocating a bulkhead to align with the strongest part of the daggerboard foil, we significantly increase Paikea’s structural integrity and sailing performance. Introduction: Identifying a Structural Flaw During Paikea’s refit, we noticed a discrepancy. On
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