Rudder Winglets, Saildrive Fairings, and Getting Paikea Back in the Water Shayne had a bad knee. The splash date was fixed. This is what a refit looks like when you have a deadline, a crew of three boys, and one parent on light duties. The kids stepped up. Ayden and Harry got the engine lifted […]
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Vacuum Bagging Complex Geometry: Joining a Carbon Beam to a Hull Vacuum bagging a flat panel is straightforward. Bagging a structural carbon tape that has to bond a beam to a hull — transitioning from vertical to horizontal, over compound curves, into tight internal corners — is where it gets interesting. The prep comes first,
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Installing the Carbon Fibre Martingale The first thing you see in this video is the finished martingale in place. Then it cuts to Shayne drilling straight through the carbon front beam we’d built from America’s Cup mast sections. If you know what that beam is made of and what it cost in time and material
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Making Rudder Moulds from an America’s Cup Foil The Valencia rudder build started with a stroke of luck. Rather than designing a foil profile from scratch, Shayne had access to something better — a rudder blade from the Spanish Ibedrola team’s 2007 America’s Cup campaign. Bright green, a proper grand prix foil, sitting in storage.
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Transom Extension, Saildrive Housing, and an America’s Cup Rudder Shayne had been away since October working professional rigging jobs. He came back two days before Christmas and went straight into cutting away the transom of our boat. That’s the pace of this refit. Cutting Away the Transom The original Catana transoms had a step that
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Building a Carbon Front Beam from America’s Cup Mast Sections This one started with two projects running in parallel. Anna was up in the sail loft recutting a fractional kite while Shayne was in the grinding bay with sections of an America’s Cup mast, working out how to turn them into a front beam. The
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