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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A Week of Many Jobs — and a Flood We Couldn’t Ignore Living on a boat means the weather isn’t background noise. It’s the thing that decides whether today’s plan actually happens. Partway through this week, Valencia was hit by DANA — a catastrophic flash flood that meteorologists called one of the most intense the
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Author: Shayne and Anna Topic: This post details the ongoing refit of the starboard stateroom, focusing on the practical installation of a composite door and the application of flow coat as a substrate for insulation. It provides a technical analysis of chronic hydraulic steering failures, evaluating the components beyond repair and outlining the engineering rationale for a
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From America’s Cup to Mini Maxis: What’s Next in Our Marine World It’s been a while since the last update, and there’s a good reason — a genuinely busy stretch of professional work that’s kept Paikea sitting on the back burner for longer than either of us would like. Parting Ways with the French America’s
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How to Tune a Catamaran Rig: A Professional’s Guide This is Shayne tuning the rig on a Belize 43 in Antigua — a Canadian boat called Passat whose owners had their wires replaced in the States, cruised the Caribbean, and now needed everything dialled back in after the initial stretch. The fundamentals here apply to
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Repairing the Starboard Hull: Paikea’s Crack Fix in Barcelona With the hull crack confirmed and the extent of it clear, it was time to actually fix it — and, as it turned out, a genuinely full family day on the hard. Splitting the Work The crack ran from the stateroom all the way in under
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