Inside a Modern Carbon Race Boat: What Race Boat Structure Actually Looks Like Every race boat interior looks the same once you strip away the paint job — and that’s not an accident. I can’t tell you which boat this is, and there’s plenty on board I’m not allowed to show you. Most of that […]
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How to Laminate a Repair Properly Most bad laminates aren’t caused by bad materials. They’re caused by skipping the boring parts. This one’s a simple polyester repair — closing up an old port light opening on Paikea, foam-cored, nothing exotic — but the basics behind it are the same basics most people get wrong. Not
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Carbon Anchor Roller, Nav Lights, and the Final Details on Paikea’s Front End The structural work was done. What remained was the detail — and on a build like this the detail takes as long as the structure. The trampoline tracks needed to move up. The original position was too low for the geometry of
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Forestay Attachment and Wet Preg: Engineering the Pin Into a Carbon Longeron Attaching a forestay to a carbon longeron built from recycled mast sections isn’t a standard job. There are no off-the-shelf fittings for this configuration — the geometry is specific to this mast, this boat, and this longeron position. Shayne spent a lot of
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Wet Laminate vs. Prepreg: Choosing the Right Carbon Fibre Method Choosing between wet laminate and prepreg is one of the first decisions you’ll face on any carbon fibre project, and it’s one Shayne’s made a few hundred times over — from grand prix campaigns down to a single part on Paikea. Here’s how he breaks
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The Benefits of Using Peel Ply Peel ply is the layer that never stays with the boat — and it’s doing more work than its five minutes of fame in the lamination stack would suggest. It goes on as the first layer against the laminate, and it comes off before the next layer goes on.
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