Sealing Leaky Windows Properly Paikea’s windows are quintessential Catana — curved, space-age looking, and about as impractical and expensive to replace as boat windows get. On a modest cruising budget, new windows were never really on the table. So the job became fixing what we had rather than replacing it. The crazing in the perspex […]
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How to Make Waterline Markers (And Why We Think It’s Such a Good Idea) Continuing on from our previous video about watching your weight, Shayne takes us through the process of how we made waterline markers for our catamaran. The idea behind this trick is simple: to give you a visual tool to monitor how
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Catamaran Front Beam Load Paths: Why We Replaced Aluminium with Carbon The original aluminium front beam on Paikea worked. It had done 45,000 miles. But understanding why we replaced it requires understanding what a front beam actually has to do — and the original arrangement was doing it in a way that had some significant
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Helping Out on a Vela Latina Some jobs start with “can you come help me for an hour” and turn into a full lamination masterclass. Our friend Miguel’s Vela Latina — a traditional lateen-rigged wooden boat — had sunk three times. Not from any one dramatic failure, but from fiberglassing that was never quite good
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From America’s Cup to Our Catamaran: Rescuing a Carbon Legend We’d been stuck in Valencia during the COVID lockdown when we came across a piece of sailing history that was about to be destroyed. Rig #12 from Team New Zealand’s 2000 America’s Cup campaign — later used by the French challenger in the 2007 Cup
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Designing a Stowable Anchor System for a Carbon Front Beam The challenge with a carbon longeron as an anchor platform is obvious the moment you think about it: anchor chain, stainless steel rollers, and a steel anchor bash around constantly, and carbon doesn’t like that. Every point where metal meets carbon needs protection, and that
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