The Truth About Self-Tacking Jibs: Design & Compromises Ten different ways to build a self-tacking jib system, and every single one of them is a compromise. The question isn’t which system is best — it’s which compromises you’re willing to live with. This particular Gunboat 66 runs a track-and-car arrangement worth breaking down properly, because
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From Cardboard to CAD: Designing Paikea’s Shower Sump and Drain Every finished part on this boat starts somewhere unglamorous. This one started as cardboard. Before any of the actual bathroom floor took real shape, the design existed as a rough cardboard mock-up — cheap, fast, and disposable enough to get wrong a few times before
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Why a Shower Floor Isn’t as Simple as It Looks A shower floor sounds like the simplest thing on a boat to build. It isn’t — not once you account for a boat that never sits quite level. The trim problem A cruising catamaran doesn’t stay put transversely — she’s stable side to side, twin
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Acrylic Hatch Lenses: Finally, Hatches You Can See Through After months of solid, opaque hatch covers — and a long, frustrating search for a European acrylic supplier who’d actually reply to messages — the lenses finally arrived. Fitting the lens: why MS sealant, not urethane Bonding an 8mm acrylic lens into a 15mm-deep hatch trough
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Diagnosing and Repairing Hull Delamination: A Real Structural Repair, Not a Cosmetic One Pulling up an old floor panel to find “a little bit of delamination” turned into a full structural repair once the actual extent of the damage became visible. Finding the crack, and following it further than expected A suspected crack in the
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Removing Harry’s Overhead Hatch: Filling In the Forward Deck Opening Cutting a big hole in the boat isn’t unusual on this refit. This particular hole is the reason the whole flush hatch programme started in the first place. The hatch that started it all The forward hatch over Harry’s bunk was the single worst offender
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