Repairing the Starboard Hull: Paikea’s Crack Fix in Barcelona With the hull crack confirmed and the extent of it clear, it was time to actually fix it — and, as it turned out, a genuinely full family day on the hard. Splitting the Work The crack ran from the stateroom all the way in under […]
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Adding a 23kg printer to a boat you’re trying to lighten sounds like a contradiction. It is — but it’s a deliberate one, and this post explains the thinking behind it and what the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon has already made possible, including a project that had been sitting in Shayne’s design files waiting for
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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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Author: Shayne and Anna Topic: This post provides a professional analysis of an Atlantic upwind passage, demonstrating the Catana 42 Paikea’s performance capabilities with real-time data on wind angles and boat speed. It details the immediate emergency response to a sudden structural bang at sea, outlining the systematic procedure for inspecting daggerboards and hull integrity. The article
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How We Reef Our Mainsail Sailing Downwind Reefing downwind has a reputation for being awkward, and on a lot of boats, it genuinely is. Paikea adds a few of her own complications to that reputation — a mainsail halyard lock, a sticky spot in the mast track from a locking mechanism that was filed in
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