Why We Love Our Exposed Helm Stations Helm station design might be the most hotly debated topic in catamaran circles — and usually by people who’ve never actually sailed one. Shayne’s spent years on both leaning monohulls and multihulls, driven a fair range of boats from race-oriented to cruiser-oriented, and seen his share of genuinely
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How to Make Waterline Markers (And Why We Think It’s Such a Good Idea) Continuing on from our previous video about watching your weight, Shayne takes us through the process of how we made waterline markers for our catamaran. The idea behind this trick is simple: to give you a visual tool to monitor how
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Why Weight Is Critical on Your Multihull Every self-tapping screw on this boat has been weighed. Not because it matters individually — because the sum of a hundred small things nobody thinks to weigh always adds up to more than expected. Before leaving the marina after months of refit work, everything that had been stripped
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Sailing with the Code 0 and Our First Choice for Furler The whole point of replacing Paikea’s aluminium front beam with a carbon beam, longeron, and bow pole was sail inventory. A stronger front end doesn’t mean much on its own — what it actually buys you is the ability to fly sails the old
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How to Sail a Gunboat 68 Upwind: Mastering Apparent Wind Leaving Port-Camargue on a Gunboat 68, crossing the Gulf of Lion under a fresh offshore breeze — flat water for most of the transit, and plenty of wind to work with. A good day to talk through what actually happens to apparent wind as boat
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Catamaran Front Beam Load Paths: Why We Replaced Aluminium with Carbon The original aluminium front beam on Paikea worked. It had done 45,000 miles. But understanding why we replaced it requires understanding what a front beam actually has to do — and the original arrangement was doing it in a way that had some significant
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