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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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Closing the Loop: A Return Flange at the Site of the Original Hull Crack Some of the best footage this week came from behind the camera rather than in front of it — a week away at work meant the boys took over documentation duties, catching two genuinely separate projects happening in parallel aboard Paikea.
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Repairing the Starboard Hull: Paikea’s Crack Fix in Barcelona This picks up directly from Crack in the Hull and Asymmetric Rudders: Barcelona Refit Begins, where this crack was first found. With the hull crack confirmed and the extent of it clear, it was time to actually fix it — and, as it turned out, a
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Crack in the Hull and Asymmetric Rudders: Barcelona Refit Begins With Paikea on the hard in Barcelona, it was time to lay out exactly what this refit actually involves — and the honest answer is: almost everything. The Full Strip-Out The interior’s coming out, all of it. It’s original timber — heavy, and in places
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Hauling Out Paikea: Discovering a Hull Crack and Starting Her Interior Refit We’re back in the Mediterranean, in Barcelona, which is roughly where this whole project started. It felt right to be back here for the next chapter — hauling Paikea out for her biggest refit yet. A Quick Recap of How We Got Here
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