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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Acrylic Hatch Lenses: Finally, Hatches You Can See Through After months of solid, opaque hatch covers — and a long, frustrating search for a European acrylic supplier who’d actually reply to messages — the lenses finally arrived. Fitting the lens: why MS sealant, not urethane Bonding an 8mm acrylic lens into a 15mm-deep hatch trough
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Removing Harry’s Overhead Hatch: Filling In the Forward Deck Opening Cutting a big hole in the boat isn’t unusual on this refit. This particular hole is the reason the whole flush hatch programme started in the first place. The hatch that started it all The forward hatch over Harry’s bunk was the single worst offender
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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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Fitting Composite Hatches: Installation, Alignment, and Converting Portlights to Hatches Building a hatch is one problem. Cutting a hole through a proven, watertight deck to fit it is a genuinely different one. Cutting into a deck that already works The original hatch arrangement had one real advantage worth preserving rather than cutting away entirely: a
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Building Composite Hatches: From 3D-Printed Mould to Finished Part Every hatch on this boat starts the same way — not with fibreglass, but with a mould nobody will ever see once the part comes out of it. Why 3D-printed moulds, and why not always Building tooling for a job like this runs against a genuine
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