Good catch Dogboy. The photos are crappy, but in the 2nd one it clearly shows extending back from the beam.
It also seems to have gussets attached at each pivot bar, which I’ve never seen on any wings.
Some had an extra tube, but not full gussets.
Perhaps someone really crashed the boat, or a tree fell on the wings, & they were “repaired”.
If you are in such high wind that you need to sit on the back end of SX wings you are in for a wild ride!
I can only imagine. Two of us were sitting in the last few inches of my shorter Magnum wings a couple seasons ago, in a 25kt blow. The waves were stacked up to where green water crossed the tramp & literally ripped your feet to the stern. Only thing that kept us onboard was sitting on the wings.
Eventually, in a bigger gust, we crashed...& turtled, (though the H18 is relatively easy to unturtle with two adults).
My buddy was soloing the N5.0, turtled it, got onboard & looked to us for advice/help, only to see us turtled a few hundred meters away.
In that wind they almost self rights with a bit of hiking. My wife thought we were retards sailing in that but it was a good ride while it lasted!
SaskH18- here is a photo of Magnum wings. It’s not the greatest angle, it’s from when I picked up a neglected boat, (I have an album under Personal Albums on resurrecting it). The rear of the wing is a mirror image of the front.
https://www.thebeachcats.com/pictures?g2_itemId=120193&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
Edited by Edchris177 on Sep 05, 2021 - 10:34 AM.
E C Hilliard
Nacra 5.7
Bombardier Invitation
Hobie 18 wings available, advertised on this site, but Nacra wings hard to come by, I had a prindle 16 with wings and it was stolen- benches(wings) prolong a sailors longevity at the helm- cats notorious back breakers