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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Paikea’s First Sea Trial: Carbon Front Beam, New Rudders, and a Midnight Sewing Job The sea trial almost didn’t happen on schedule. When we’d left for France earlier in the build — when Shayne was stepping the Gunboat 68 rig — Anna had set the mainsail head webbing in an approximate position, the intention being
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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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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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