Rudder Hunt: Sailing a One-Rudder Catamaran Around Antigua October 2022 We’d been in Antigua for two months on one rudder. The hull inspection in St Lucia had confirmed what we suspected — the port stock was gone and wasn’t coming back. We needed a replacement blade, and we needed it before we could think about […]
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Antigua Downwind Blast: Racing the Clock and Losing a Spinnaker Some passages get planned weeks in advance. This one got planned around a party invitation and a six-hour weather window — get from Green Island, on the easternmost tip of Antigua, all the way around to Jolly Harbour on the western side, with enough time
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How to Sail Upwind in Your Catamaran Catamarans have a reputation for sailing upwind badly, and daggerboards get blamed for most of it — either credited as the magic fix or dismissed as pointless clutter in the saloon. Neither view is quite right. Daggerboards genuinely do provide extra grip compared to the keeled hulls on
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Navigation Systems Onboard Paikea Sailing offshore takes more than a phone with a local SIM card and hoping for the best. Out past the range of any cell network, communication and navigation both run through one piece of equipment: an IridiumGo satellite unit and its dedicated aerial, which Shayne built and mounted using a custom
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Atlantic Crossing Debrief: 18 Days, 2,956 Miles, and a Lost Rudder We’re in St Lucia. The crossing is done. Time to go through what actually happened — the good, the bad, and the parts we’re still thinking about. This is the full debrief on our 2,700 nautical mile passage from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to
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How We Sailed Our Catamaran 800 Nautical Miles With One Rudder Losing a rudder 800 nautical miles from land is the kind of problem that reshapes everything about how a boat gets sailed for the rest of a passage. This is the real story of what that actually looked like — the routing decisions, the
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