This one’s for members Our members library is where the real work lives: original technical content from the people who did the work, using materials and methods from the highest levels of the sport. Inside our Membership Site: Extended video walkthroughs from Paikea’s refit and our professional jobs New members videos uploaded regularly Downloads and
Inside the Fabrica Workshop: How Synthetic Rigging Is Actually Made In the last post we walked through why Paikea’s stays needed replacing, and why we landed on continuous filament, unidirectional Dyneema DM20 rather than going like-for-like with wire. That post ended with a promise: we’d head to the Fabrica factory to see how these stays
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Synthetic Headstay Furling Explained: Why It’s Different From a Standard Furler In the last post we covered why we’re replacing all of Paikea’s stays, and why the headstay in particular has to go too. If you haven’t read that one yet, it’s worth doing first — it lays out the reasoning behind the whole project:
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Replacing Wire Sidestays with Synthetic We noticed it during a routine look: one of the outer strands on Paikea’s sidestay had popped. A single broken wire in a 1×19 stay doesn’t sound like much, but it’s the kind of thing that changes your whole season. This is Part 1 of a series on how we
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This one’s for members Our members library is where the real work lives: original technical content from the people who did the work, using materials and methods from the highest levels of the sport. Inside our Membership Site: Extended video walkthroughs from Paikea’s refit and our professional jobs New members videos uploaded regularly Downloads and
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SV Outnumbered, Oliver’s Pumpfoiling Win, and Cabin rebuild. It’s been a while between videos, and there’s a good reason: Paikea’s refit went on hold for almost a month while Outnumbered — the Gunboat 66 currently in our care went sailing, and then there was Foiling Week at Lake Garda Italy. Down tools for a professional
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