Atlantic Crossing Debrief: 18 Days, 2,956 Miles, and a Lost Rudder We’re in St Lucia. The crossing is done. Time to go through what actually happened — the good, the bad, and the parts we’re still thinking about. This is the full debrief on our 2,700 nautical mile passage from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to […]
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How We Sailed Our Catamaran 800 Nautical Miles With One Rudder Losing a rudder 800 nautical miles from land is the kind of problem that reshapes everything about how a boat gets sailed for the rest of a passage. This is the real story of what that actually looked like — the routing decisions, the
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Losing a Rudder 800nm from Land It didn’t announce itself. There was no bang, no sudden drama — just Paikea feeling increasingly wrong through the night. The rudders were going to 20 degrees to keep the boat bearing away. Normally if the boat’s out of balance you’d see 10 to 12 degrees of rudder angle.
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Part 2 of our Atlantic journey. We are mid Atlantic on our modified Crowther catamaran. The ride so far has been fast and sometimes a bit fruity. We discover that the mainsail batten pockets are loading up too much as we placed them too close to the reefing points and have to repair with some
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The first in our Atlantic Ocean crossing series. A light airs start from Las Palmas following the Moroccan coastline proved interesting when we were approached by a Moroccan patrol boat. We suspect they were looking for smugglers (drugs/people) as they asked us to report to them if we saw any suspicious activity. As we are
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Discovering Chainplate Movement: Bolt Failure and Bulkhead Rot Some problems on a boat announce themselves. Others hide in plain sight for years, waiting for the right conditions to become visible. This one falls firmly into the second category — and it only came to light because of an unrelated job Shayne had done not long
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