Sailing Paikea

How We Trim Our Downwind Sails

How We Trim Our Downwind Sails Two numbers on the instrument display tell you almost everything you need to know about trimming a sail — apparent wind and true wind — and most people never learn to read them properly. Apparent versus true wind, and why the difference matters True wind is the wind as […]

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Sailing to Work: Paikea Delivers the Family to the Gunboat 68 Launch

Sailing to Work: Paikea Delivers the Family to the Gunboat 68 Launch We sailed to France for work. That’s the short version. The longer version involves a half-finished mainsail, a plastic bag around the propeller in the dark, three boys who turned out to be surprisingly useful, and a front-row seat at the launch of

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