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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Catamaran Hull Damage Repair: What We Found Under a Bad Fix When we bought Paikea there was a small repair above the rudders that didn’t sit right. The previous owner had a story about it — a cable, he said. We were fairly sure he was telling porky pies. Grinding it back confirmed it. The
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Flush Skin Fittings: Recycling Our Existing Through-Hulls for Less Drag The toilet inlet and the toilet outlet on Paikea were about 300mm apart. Anyone who has lived on a boat knows exactly what that means. The inlet was moving — three or four metres forward in the hull — and while we had the boat
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