Antigua Downwind Blast: Racing the Clock and Losing a Spinnaker Some passages get planned weeks in advance. This one got planned around a party invitation and a six-hour weather window — get from Green Island, on the easternmost tip of Antigua, all the way around to Jolly Harbour on the western side, with enough time […]
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Did Losing a Rudder Damage our Hulls? We’d just crossed the Atlantic on one rudder. We knew what had happened — the port stock had failed mid-ocean, the blade had torn away, and we’d sailed Paikea nearly 800 nautical miles to the Canaries and then on to the Caribbean to sort it out. What we
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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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Rudder Winglets, Saildrive Fairings, and Getting Paikea Back in the Water Shayne had a bad knee. The splash date was fixed. This is what a refit looks like when you have a deadline, a crew of three boys, and one parent on light duties. The kids stepped up. Ayden and Harry got the engine lifted
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