Want to sail FAST? It’s not always smooth sailing!
The reality of sailing fast with waves. Take a peak behind the scenes on board a Gunboar 68 delivery.
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Sailing and upgrading our performance catamaran, a Catana42s named Paikea
The reality of sailing fast with waves. Take a peak behind the scenes on board a Gunboar 68 delivery.
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Our first real open ocean passage in our performance cruising boat Paikea. We chase the breeze down the Moroccan coastline on our way to the Canary Islands. The new modifications stand up to the rigours of life at sea and we couldn’t be happier. In Cadiz we’ve ordered a heap more solar panels but the
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Another informative video filmed mostly at the top of our modified AC rig on a blustery 20+KT day! We’ve worked a lot on sound editing and video quality so hopefully you will enjoy this next YB update. Have you come across a halyard lock before? Do you have one on your boat already? This little
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IridiumGO is our contact with the outside world once we are off shore and out of internet range. We can use it to communicate with family and friends, get our weather predictions and weather routing from predictWind and chart our course. It’s essential tech for any seafarer these days. In this episode we are making
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Mounting our Spectra watermaker in place means drilling holes in carbon fibre. Is there a best practice for doing this? How do you mount the watermaker securely but still have the ability to remove it for maintenance? There are a few simple rules in place here. Check out this video on how we managed to
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Sealing leaky windows properly. How to makes sure that the windows on your boat stay sealed and the inside of your boat stays dry. The windows on Paikea are quintessential Catana design. They are curved and space-age looking but they are far from practical and downright expensive to replace. As (like most cruisers) our budget
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The hotly debated topic of exposed helm stations on a catamaran. In this episode, we are traveling down the west coast of Portugal on a cold and rainy day. It’s not that pleasant outside so the question is – would we prefer to have our helm station nicely protected and out of the elements? Not
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How to make waterline markers and why we think it’s such a good idea. Continuing on from our previous video on watching your weight, Shayne goes through the process of how we made the waterline markers for our catamaran. The idea behind this trick is to monitor how our boat is sitting in the water.
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We are off! It’s time to pack up our mighty ship and leave the boatyard. We are not quite finished with the upgrades but it’s definitely time to get out of the boatyard and do some cruising. We are some of those crazy people who weigh everything that we put on Paikea. This episode it’s
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Sailing with a code 0 on our 1990 performance catamaran. The idea behind removing our original aluminium front beam and replacing it with a carbon fibre beam with longeron and bow pole https://youtu.be/RNuBhgp9HWo was so that we could increase our sail inventory by allowing us to fly different types of sails. From our new bow
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