Making a Composite Rudder Part Two: Laminating, Fairing and Getting It on the Boat August 2023 There was a deadline on this one. Shayne had accepted a job as rigger for the French America’s Cup team and we needed to get to Barcelona. Five days to finish two rudder blades, get them installed, and be […]
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Making a Composite Rudder Part One: Shaping the Foam Blank April 2023 This footage starts mid-Atlantic. We’re three days without a port rudder, still four or five days out from land, watching the rudder angle readout and trying to keep it between two and five degrees in normal conditions. The breeze is light so we’ve
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Engineering Paikea’s Rig: Adapting America’s Cup Technology for Cruising April 2023 Taking an IACC mast and making it work on a cruising catamaran isn’t a matter of cutting it to length and stepping it. Every system on the original rig was designed for a grand prix racing programme with a full crew, unlimited budget, and
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Catana42s Boat Tour – The Deck You’ve seen why we chose a boat from the 1990s to live on , and you’ve had a look at the transom and aft cockpit upgrades and future plans, and now it’s time to share our ideas for the deck of Paikea. If you are familiar with our channel
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Catana 42s Boat Tour – Aft Section In our previous video we told you why we bought a 33 year old catamaran instead of nice new shiny one. Now it’s time to take you on a tour of the old girl. This week is all about the aft end of the bus. The transom and
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Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part Two — How It Actually Stays In Part One showed the build. This one answers the question that came in from almost everyone who watched it: how does that black carbon strap actually stay attached to the boat? It’s a fair question, and the answer is worth understanding properly, because
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