Sailing with the Code 0 and Our First Choice for Furler The whole point of replacing Paikea’s aluminium front beam with a carbon beam, longeron, and bow pole was sail inventory. A stronger front end doesn’t mean much on its own — what it actually buys you is the ability to fly sails the old […]
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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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Sea Trials With Our New Mainsail Motor testing only tells you so much. To really know if a rebuilt boat is sound, you have to load it up under sail and see what happens. Paikea had already been out under motor to test the new front beam, longeron, folding propellers, rudders, flush skin fittings, and
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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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DIY Square-Top Mainsail: 3D-Printed Batten Receptacles Paikea’s mainsail started life on a 72-foot superyacht. It was a delivery main — big, heavy cloth built for a boat three times our size — picked up during lockdown when boat parts weren’t exactly easy to come by and budgets were tighter than usual. Anna took it on:
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