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Portside Upgrades and Our Epic Diesel Tank Lid The old stainless steel diesel tanks are out. New plastic ones are going in. Simple, right? Not on our watch… We sourced stock tanks that were close to the right size, but nothing fit without modification. The spin-off lid that came with the tank? Useless. Every time you unscrew
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Structural Bulkhead: Building a Return Flange Under the Floor Some weeks the best footage comes from the people who weren’t supposed to be filming. This one belongs to the boys. With a week away at work, Harry and Ollie took over documentation duties aboard Paikea — and there were two genuinely separate projects happening at
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Structural Cabinetry: When Your Furniture Is Also Your Boat The socks-and-underwear drawer dividers on this boat are also doing structural work. That’s not an accident — it’s the whole design philosophy. Furniture that stiffens the boat The bunk top needed support, and the obvious answer was simple internal framing to hold future pull-out drawers. But
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