How to Trim the Jib Upwind on a Catamaran Most people’s relationship with a jib sheet starts and ends with a winch handle — pull it on when you head up, ease it off when you bear away. That gets you moving, but it’s a long way from actually trimming a sail well. Getting real […]
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Correcting Mast Rake: Why It Matters and How We Fixed Two Years of Too Much When we built and fitted Paikea’s new carbon front beam, we knew we were changing more than just the beam. The original beam, like most catamaran front beams, sat flat. Ours doesn’t — we couldn’t source a single piece of
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Our Custom Mainsail Reefing System: How It All Works A lot of reefing complaints come down to the same root cause: an undersized system trying to do a job it was never built for. Small 24mm track with basic sliders jams under real load, sails get hard to hoist, reefing downwind becomes genuinely difficult —
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Delivering the Gunboat 62: The Original Grand Lady of Gunboat Before even getting on the plane home from a three-part Transatlantic crossing on a Gunboat 68, and the phone rang again. Another Gunboat, another Atlantic crossing — this time one of the originals, stuck in the Azores and needing a hand to get home. There
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Gunboat 68 Transatlantic Debrief: Q&A on Rudders, Boards, and Cockpit Systems With the delivery done, Shayne caught up with Anna to walk back through the trip — what the job actually involved, and to answer the questions that came in from the video series along the way. The job itself A delivery like this is
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: From the Azores to Toulon A week in the Azores brought the rudder repair to completion — a new rudder case fitted, and a rudder blade borrowed from a sister Gunboat 68 flown in and installed. Fully repaired and back in sailing condition, but the forecast for the final leg
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