Sailing Paikea

Downwind Spinnaker Trim: Windward Bow, Twist, and Reading the Apparent Wind

Downwind Spinnaker Trim: Windward Bow, Twist, and Reading the Apparent Wind Halfway across the Atlantic, in solid 20-knot trade winds with the sea state finally settling down, is about as good a moment as any for a proper downwind trim lesson — and this one covers something that trips up a lot of sailors moving […]

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Sailing from Spain to the Canary Islands!

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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