How to Install a Dyneema Trampoline on a Catamaran Most production catamarans come with polyester trampoline netting. It does the job until it doesn’t — UV degradation, stretch, and a surface that gets progressively less pleasant to walk on in rough conditions. What was required was a netting that was strong and sturdy enough to […]
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Carbon Fibre Bow Pole: Finishing the America’s Cup Front End The bow pole is the top section of the same America’s Cup mast that became the front beam and longeron. It had all its original halyard exits and fittings still attached when we got it, which created both opportunities and problems — some hardware was
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Inside a Modern Carbon Race Boat: What Race Boat Structure Actually Looks Like Every race boat interior looks the same once you strip away the paint job — and that’s not an accident. I can’t tell you which boat this is, and there’s plenty on board I’m not allowed to show you. Most of that
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How to Laminate a Repair Properly Most bad laminates aren’t caused by bad materials. They’re caused by skipping the boring parts. This one’s a simple polyester repair — closing up an old port light opening on Paikea, foam-cored, nothing exotic — but the basics behind it are the same basics most people get wrong. Not
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Carbon Anchor Roller, Nav Lights, and the Final Details on Paikea’s Front End The structural work was done. What remained was the detail — and on a build like this the detail takes as long as the structure. The trampoline tracks needed to move up. The original position was too low for the geometry of
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Forestay Attachment and Wet Preg: Engineering the Pin Into a Carbon Longeron Attaching a forestay to a carbon longeron built from recycled mast sections isn’t a standard job. There are no off-the-shelf fittings for this configuration — the geometry is specific to this mast, this boat, and this longeron position. Shayne spent a lot of
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