Catana 42 Boat Tour: The Deck Last time we covered the back end of the boat and the cockpit. This time it’s everything in the middle and up on deck — what this boat came with, what’s stayed, and what’s already changed. The Hardtop and the Moonroof Starting at the back of the hardtop extension:
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Catana 42 Boat Tour: The Aft Section Thirty years old, and the back end of this boat is still one of the best-thought-out parts of her. This is where that becomes obvious. The Back Step: Small Change, Big Difference The back step got a small modification early on — a little edge added to make
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Cap Tang Misalignment: Why Non-Parallel Tangs Crack Rod Rigging Heads If a cap tang isn’t potted into the mast with its two openings parallel to each other, the headed rod sidestay sitting in it will load asymmetrically every time the rig is under tension. Instead of the load running straight down the rod, one shoulder
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Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part Two — How It Actually Stays In Part One showed the build. This one answers the question that came in from almost everyone who watched it: how does that black carbon strap actually stay attached to the boat? It’s a fair question, and the answer is worth understanding properly, because
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Building Carbon Fibre Chainplates: Part One Some jobs start small and grow into something else entirely. This one started with a bolt swap in Brittany. By the time it caught up with us properly, it had turned into a full chainplate rebuild — and Shayne was on the other side of the Atlantic delivering Gunboats
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Delivering the Gunboat 62: The Original Grand Lady of Gunboat Before even getting on the plane home from a three-part Transatlantic crossing on a Gunboat 68, and the phone rang again. Another Gunboat, another Atlantic crossing — this time one of the originals, stuck in the Azores and needing a hand to get home. There
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