Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: Losing a Rudder Mid-Ocean A cockpit feature worth knowing about before the rest of this story: slave rings. They’re a small, unassuming ring fitted at the base of a Harken 990 winch, and they solve a problem every loaded cockpit eventually runs into — a winch tied up with one […]
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: Light Air, Big Miles Day three, maybe four, of a Gunboat 68 delivery from the west side of the Atlantic back to Europe — and the wind’s done almost nothing since departure. Eleven knots has been the ceiling. For most boats, that’s a day for the engine and a long
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Racing an Atlantic 72 at Antigua Sailing Week [Narrated by Olly] This week was something special — we got to race a Chris White-designed Atlantic 72 around the track for Antigua Sailing Week, with all ten of us kids helping crew her. We raced against the Gunboat 68 Tosca, with Alex Thompson on board as
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How to Trim the Mainsheet on a Gunboat 68 Reaching under an A3 spinnaker with the first reef tucked in, daggerboards well out — two metres on the leeward board, two and a half on the windward — because the apparent wind is still forward enough to want to push the boat sideways, even with
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Boat Door Design: What a Gunboat 68 Gets Right A question that comes up often enough to deserve a proper answer: is it normal for your catamaran’s doors and lockers to jam shut while sailing? No. Not on a well-built boat, and it shouldn’t be accepted as normal on any boat — even a soft,
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The Performance Catamaran Comfort Trade-Off Four in the morning, twelve knots upwind, and no sleep to speak of. This is what fast actually costs. People ask for a fast boat all the time. The honest answer worth giving back is a question: do you actually want a fast boat, or do you want the idea
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