A Winch Override Trick, Wing Foiling Barbuda, and Everything We’ve Broken So Far Some passages are about getting somewhere. This one, from Antigua to Barbuda, ended up being about a lot more than that — a genuinely useful winch fix, an afternoon of wing foiling with an unexpected turtle cameo, and a moment of total […]
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Rudder Hunt: Sailing a One-Rudder Catamaran Around Antigua October 2022 We’d been in Antigua for two months on one rudder. The hull inspection in St Lucia had confirmed what we suspected — the port stock was gone and wasn’t coming back. We needed a replacement blade, and we needed it before we could think about
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Racing an Atlantic 72 at Antigua Sailing Week [Narrated by Olly] This week was something special — we got to race a Chris White-designed Atlantic 72 around the track for Antigua Sailing Week, with all ten of us kids helping crew her. We raced against the Gunboat 68 Tosca, with Alex Thompson on board as
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We have a Nemo brand jib furler on Paikea. It is the original one that came with the old mast. When we built our carbon rotating mast we retrofitted the existing stainless steel wire stays from our aluminum mast to our new rig. We did this for 2 reasons. the first being that we had
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Antigua Downwind Blast: Racing the Clock and Losing a Spinnaker Some passages get planned weeks in advance. This one got planned around a party invitation and a six-hour weather window — get from Green Island, on the easternmost tip of Antigua, all the way around to Jolly Harbour on the western side, with enough time
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How to Sail Upwind in Your Catamaran Catamarans have a reputation for sailing upwind badly, and daggerboards get blamed for most of it — either credited as the magic fix or dismissed as pointless clutter in the saloon. Neither view is quite right. Daggerboards genuinely do provide extra grip compared to the keeled hulls on
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