Another informative video filmed mostly at the top of our modified AC rig on a blustery 20+KT day! We’ve worked a lot on sound editing and video quality so hopefully you will enjoy this next YB update. Have you come across a halyard lock before? Do you have one on your boat already? This little
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Making an Iridium GO Aerial Bracket Somewhere on every boat’s list is a job that looks simple, turns out not to be, and drags on for months anyway. This was one of those. Getting the Iridium GO’s aerial mounted and working meant, first, admitting a seven-dollar plastic fitting wasn’t going to cut it — wrong
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How to Bolt into Carbon Fibre: Threaded Inserts vs. Helicoils Mounting a Clark pump for the watermaker onto a bulkhead sounds like a small job. Getting the threading right underneath it is where the actual engineering happens. Why bolting into composite matters The plan here is straightforward on the surface: carbon plates bonded to the
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Sealing Leaky Windows Properly Paikea’s windows are quintessential Catana — curved, space-age looking, and about as impractical and expensive to replace as boat windows get. On a modest cruising budget, new windows were never really on the table. So the job became fixing what we had rather than replacing it. The crazing in the perspex
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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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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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