Fixing a Vacuum Infusion Implosion: The Repair The infusion had been running for a couple of minutes, resin pulling through the laminate exactly as it should, when the pull sped up and the whole box beam gave way at once. A week of templating, foam cutting, and careful fitting, gone in the time it took […]
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Why Did the Box Beam Implode? Your Questions Answered After the last video, the questions came in fast — and they were good ones. Before showing how the repair actually came together, it’s worth working through the reasoning behind some of the choices that led to the implosion in the first place. None of it
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Building a Structural Box Beam for Paikea’s Hull There’s a section of hull in the aft cabin that used to lean on a bit of luck. Years ago someone built a partial bulkhead in there for an ensuite that no longer exists, and it never actually ran down to the floor. It’s an easy mistake
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From Scrap Foam to Flying: Oliver’s Custom Carbon Pump Foil Board Four days of pump foiling on a kiteboard was enough to identify the exact problem: too long, and the bow kept slamming into the water on every pump stroke. The commercial fix would have cost around €900. Oliver’s fix cost a pile of scrap
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Building a Lightweight Composite Door: A Complex-Geometry Lamination Story We work on high-end race boats and large performance multihulls, and that work takes us all over the world. When we’re not on a client’s boat, this is home — sailing, exploring, and steadily upgrading our Catana 42. Being composite professionals means a lot of what
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Widening Structural Doorways Beside a Chainplate — and a Watertight Forward Hatch Two genuinely different projects came together this week: a new watertight hatch for the bow, and a structural modification most people shouldn’t attempt without a proper engineering background — widening doorways immediately next to a chainplate-bearing bulkhead. A Watertight Forward Hatch, Built Like
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