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Engineering Composite Flush Hatches: Why We Started From Scratch

Engineering Composite Flush Hatches: Why We Started From Scratch Paikea’s original hatches were thirty-two years old, genuinely well-built, and still failing in exactly the way expensive equipment fails when it’s finally reached the end of what it was designed for. What was actually wrong with them These aren’t cheap hatches. They’re proper offshore-spec units with

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Building Lightweight Composite Shelves for a Catamaran Interior

Building Lightweight Composite Shelves for a Catamaran Interior On a boat, every millimetre of storage space is worth fighting for, and every kilogram you add to get it is worth thinking twice about. In this stage of Paikea’s interior refit, we tackled both problems at once: building a set of composite shelves into a bunk-end

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Sharpening and Maintaining Composite-Cutting Scissors (Members)

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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Engineering Composite Flush Hatches: Why We Started From Scratch

Building Lightweight Composite Shelves for a Catamaran Interior

Sharpening and Maintaining Composite-Cutting Scissors (Members)

Calibrating Your Wind Instruments — The Wool Method (Members)

Cutting Composites | Choosing the Right Jigsaw Blade to Minimize Tear-Out

Testing Aged Resin Viability: A Practical HDT Test (Members)