Pro Tips for Servicing Your Winches A confession to start: these winches hadn’t been serviced in eighteen months, well past the point they should have been touched. The general rule worth following is a quick pop of the top, a look inside, and a wipe-down every thousand miles or so. Eighteen months and a lot
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Cap Tang Misalignment: Why Non-Parallel Tangs Crack Rod Rigging Heads If a cap tang isn’t potted into the mast with its two openings parallel to each other, the headed rod sidestay sitting in it will load asymmetrically every time the rig is under tension. Instead of the load running straight down the rod, one shoulder
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This one’s for members Our members library is where the real work lives: original technical content from the people who did the work, using materials and methods from the highest levels of the sport. Inside our Membership Site: Extended video walkthroughs from Paikea’s refit and our professional jobs New members videos uploaded regularly Downloads and
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Servicing a Furler Head Swivel: Replacing Worn Ball Bearings Paikea runs a Nemo jib furler — the original unit that came with the boat’s old aluminium mast. When the new carbon rotating mast went in, the existing stainless wire stays got retrofitted onto it rather than replaced. Two reasons: new side stays and a forestay
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Helping Out on a Vela Latina Some jobs start with “can you come help me for an hour” and turn into a full lamination masterclass. Our friend Miguel’s Vela Latina — a traditional lateen-rigged wooden boat — had sunk three times. Not from any one dramatic failure, but from fiberglassing that was never quite good
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