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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Making a Solar Bracket and Leaving Cadiz Three days to build a new solar mounting frame from scratch, before a weather window slams shut and Paikea’s first real open-ocean passage begins. How the old frame broke The original solar frame took damage from something every liveaboard sailor eventually experiences: an anchor that didn’t hold. Riding
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How to Sail a Gunboat 68 Upwind: Mastering Apparent Wind Leaving Port-Camargue on a Gunboat 68, crossing the Gulf of Lion under a fresh offshore breeze — flat water for most of the transit, and plenty of wind to work with. A good day to talk through what actually happens to apparent wind as boat
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