Closing the Loop: A Return Flange at the Site of the Original Hull Crack Some of the best footage this week came from behind the camera rather than in front of it — a week away at work meant the boys took over documentation duties, catching two genuinely separate projects happening in parallel aboard Paikea.
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Structural Cabinetry: When Your Furniture Is Also Your Boat The socks-and-underwear drawer dividers on this boat are also doing structural work. That’s not an accident — it’s the whole design philosophy. Furniture that stiffens the boat The bunk top needed support, and the obvious answer was simple internal framing to hold future pull-out drawers. But
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Laminating a Bulkhead Penetration with a 3D-Printed Plug Every hole through a structural bulkhead is a weak point unless it’s reinforced properly — and reinforcing it properly starts with a plug that comes back out again. Matching laminate to the surrounding skin The basic rule for reinforcing a penetration is straightforward: match the laminate going
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Penetrating a Structural Bulkhead the Right Way Every wire, hose, and pipe that needs to cross a bulkhead has to pass through it somehow — and how that hole gets made and finished is the difference between a boat that holds up for decades and one that develops a serious structural problem. Why a Hole
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Vacuum Bagging Polyester Resin: What Most People Get Wrong Building a small non-structural bunk-front panel became the excuse for a genuinely detailed look at vacuum bagging polyester resin — a material that behaves differently enough from epoxy under vacuum that getting it wrong is easy, and getting it right takes a few tricks most people
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Gunboat 6602 Outnumbered As liveaboard sailors and marine professionals, we’re constantly surrounded by beautiful boats. But every so often, we encounter a vessel that is truly special—an icon that stops you in your tracks. The Gunboat 6602, “Outnumbered,” is one of those boats. We’ve been entrusted with a unique task: caring for this legendary performance
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