Making our dome skin fittings sit flush with the hull. Why would you bother? When you are chasing performance every little bit counts. Especially, my friends, when we are looking below the waterline. In our case we have a few obvious items to address. These include swapping fixed blade propellers for folding ones, fitting saildrive […]
Making our dome skin fittings flush with the hull Read More »
Shayne has work to do on a Gunboat in southern France so it’s time to leave the dock and take Paikea for a cruise up the coast. This is the nicest bit about the family living on a boat. We can take home with us to work. It means Shayne doesn’t have to leave his
Valencia to Southern France Read More »
We replaced our old aluminium rig with a new carbon fibre rotating wing mast earlier this year. I thought the Captain was joking when he said he had this idea for a new project. It wasn’t something that we had planned or budgeted for but when Shayne got a message asking if he wanted an
Stepping our carbon fibre rotating rig Read More »