If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that losing a rudder mid-Atlantic and building a replacement at anchor in the Caribbean was not the plan. But it did give Shayne something invaluable: a reason to design the right rudders for Paikea from scratch, with real data to work from. This post walks through the design
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Gunboat 68 Transatlantic Debrief: Q&A on Rudders, Boards, and Cockpit Systems With the delivery done, Shayne caught up with Anna to walk back through the trip — what the job actually involved, and to answer the questions that came in from the video series along the way. The job itself A delivery like this is
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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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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: From the Azores to Toulon A week in the Azores brought the rudder repair to completion — a new rudder case fitted, and a rudder blade borrowed from a sister Gunboat 68 flown in and installed. Fully repaired and back in sailing condition, but the forecast for the final leg
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: Losing a Rudder Mid-Ocean A cockpit detail worth knowing before the rest of this story: the winches carry slave rings at their base, a small fitting that lets a line get redirected to a free winch without ever touching one that’s already tied up with another job — a furling
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Transatlantic on a Gunboat 68: Light Air, Big Miles Day three, maybe four, of a Gunboat 68 delivery from the west side of the Atlantic back to Europe — and the wind’s done almost nothing since departure. Eleven knots has been the ceiling. For most boats, that’s a day for the engine and a long
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