Arriving in the Canary Islands after a great sail down from Cadiz. The next instalment in our video diary as we prepare to take our modified Catana42s across the Atlantic Ocean. Our carbon longeron and front beam are fantastic but Shayne is worried about chafing on the navigation lights we have installed inside the bow […]
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The Carbon Longeron: How a Recycled America’s Cup Mast Changed Everything The longeron is the big black pole that runs down the middle of the trampoline. It’s probably the single most transformative thing we’ve done to Paikea, and we somehow managed to not really talk about it properly until now. Before it went in, there
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Mainsheet Systems Compared: Why Paikea’s A-Frame Doesn’t Hold Up In the Gunboat 68 mainsheet post, the traveller system handled twist and power as two clean, independent controls. Paikea runs something very different — a double-ended A-frame system, common on older-style French catamarans, with no traveller at all. Two sheets, one to a winch on each
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Making a Solar Bracket and Leaving Cadiz Three days to build a new solar mounting frame from scratch, before a weather window slams shut and Paikea’s first real open-ocean passage begins. How the old frame broke The original solar frame took damage from something every liveaboard sailor eventually experiences: an anchor that didn’t hold. Riding
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Another informative video filmed mostly at the top of our modified AC rig on a blustery 20+KT day! We’ve worked a lot on sound editing and video quality so hopefully you will enjoy this next YB update. Have you come across a halyard lock before? Do you have one on your boat already? This little
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Making an Iridium GO Aerial Bracket Somewhere on every boat’s list is a job that looks simple, turns out not to be, and drags on for months anyway. This was one of those. Getting the Iridium GO’s aerial mounted and working meant, first, admitting a seven-dollar plastic fitting wasn’t going to cut it — wrong
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