Recutting a Spinnaker Staysail into a Code 0 Tucked in the back corner of a sail container at the yard, there was a spinnaker staysail nobody wanted anymore — built by North Sails for the Swedish Victory Challenge’s 2007 America’s Cup campaign. Over fifteen years old, worn in places, and exactly what we needed. What […]
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Installing the Carbon Fibre Martingale The first thing you see in this video is the finished martingale in place. Then it cuts to Shayne drilling straight through the carbon front beam we’d built from America’s Cup mast sections. If you know what that beam is made of and what it cost in time and material
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Building a Carbon Fibre Seagull Striker and Martingale By this point in the front end build the beam and longeron were in, the centreboard and rudders were painted, the saildrives were out being serviced. The next job was the seagull striker and martingale — the compression strut and the tension strap that together stop the
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Removing a Volvo Penta Sail Drive Every seven years, that rubber boot needs to come out. Ours might have been original. Paikea runs a Volvo Penta 2003 series engine through a saildrive — the same setup on plenty of production cats her age, and the same weak point too. The boot is the rubber gaiter
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Making Rudder Moulds from an America’s Cup Foil The Valencia rudder build started with a stroke of luck. Rather than designing a foil profile from scratch, Shayne had access to something better — a rudder blade from the Spanish Ibedrola team’s 2007 America’s Cup campaign. Bright green, a proper grand prix foil, sitting in storage.
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Transom Extension, Saildrive Housing, and an America’s Cup Rudder Shayne had been away since October working professional rigging jobs. He came back two days before Christmas and went straight into cutting away the transom of our boat. That’s the pace of this refit. Cutting Away the Transom The original Catana transoms had a step that
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