Hobie 18 Daggerboard Repair

I would say the daggers now have a fine polish on the bottom edge

carolinacatamarans wrote: I would say the daggers now have a fine polish on the bottom edge

The bottom edge is pretty much missing, and the gravel road produced a kind of rough finish. :angry:

By the way, that groove in the road was over 150 feet long.

I was going to say a rudder or the end of the mast. Last summer a guy towing a 16 passed us as we waited to pull onto the hiway. Every bump resulted in the trailer bouncing a bit, & the rudders contacting the pavement. By the time the light turned it was to late to catch him. I wondered what he said when he finally got to his cottage.

Two things make this particularly bad.

1. This is not the first time I've lost the tip off a daggerboard by not removing them when pulling the boat up the ramp.

2. Just ONE day before this I was advising another sailor that you MUST ALWAYS REMOVE DAGGERBOARDS BEFORE TRAILERING THE BOAT UP THE RAMP or they might fall down and leave a chalk mark the length of the concrete ramp. This time they made it onto the gravel road inside the sailing club before falling. So after the tip breaks off you get pieces of gravel wedged into the split open foam core.

It really does bite, especially when you know better. Errors have so many ways of creeping in, we get rushed because we want to look professional, & others are waiting for the ramp, we get tired, we're getting older & forget more.
Don't beat yourself up to much, a couple of years ago I agreed to deliver a Cat trailer I sold, 300km for a buyer. I got all the way there, & in the last 100 meters forgot about the Xbeams while crossing a small bridge into the parking lot. Tore the trailer all to Hell. He was nice enough to give me 1/4 of the price for the wreckage & the gas money we had agreed to.
It could also have been worse. Imagine there being a curb, & your boards fell just before that curb. New/used/fixed boards are easier/cheaper than hulls!!

Sometimes i get really angry when stuff like that happens, but then i just think about how much worse it would be if it were a brand new one...

Edchris177 wrote: It really does bite, especially when you know better. Errors have so many ways of creeping in, we get rushed...

That's what happened here. I got the boat off the shore and onto the trailer in record time trying to do it during a lull between thunderstorms.

ain't nobody perfect! s--t happens. if you wake up in the morning and it is a cloudless sunny day and you do not have a problem in the world you have died and gone to heaven , you are not on planet earth any more.

one time i forgot to tie up my centerboards and drove home
just as i crested the drawbridge i hit a little bump and both boards fell down into position.

I didn't hear them hit the metal grate of the bridge ... i smelled the burning epoxy (from behind me)

pulled over and had chewed off about 8" of each board... LIVE AND LEARN

(forgot to tie up my boards again last week... lucky they didn't drop down on the ride home -live and LEARN damnit)

Haha, that was me the day before, and I was there to witness the chalk line happen there in the gravel... Man that had to be a bummer. 🙁 Do ya have a spare to get ya on the water until you get that one fixed? Ill be down at the lake all weekend long weather permitting.
Tim

Damon, it's time you look at a Nacra 5.0! 🙂

FlyingDutch wrote: Damon, it's time you look at a Nacra 5.0! 🙂

I'd sink a 5.0, maybe a 5.7 😛

I sense something in the Force, a daggerboard fix "how to"....

I'd sink a 5.0, maybe a 5.7 icon_razz

I think you would be very pleasantly surprised by the 5.7. I think you should just get one! What better way could there possibly be to spend a few bucks?
My skinny 172 lbs is not near enough to hold down the boat in any wind. I can fly a hull in 10mph, & have done just over 21mph both single, double trapped & 3 up. 3 up was my 120lb wife & a 185 lb friend on the wire, myself sitting on the upwind hull, foot braced against the traveler casting. We drove that 5.7 like a wild banshee for 10 miles, flying a hull, & often having to slip a bit of sheet, or steer to keep it shiny side up.
Simple to rig, no boards, clean tramp, light enough for one person to muscle around. You wouldn't have wings though.

Get a P18 Damon.........

http://topeka.craigslist.org/boa/3835754330.html

I'll go get it for you and bring it down to Memphis............. :-D. we'll sail the heck out of it

the-renovator wrote: Get a P18 Damon.........

http://topeka.craigslist.org/boa/3835754330.html

I'll go get it for you and bring it down to Memphis............. :-D. we'll sail the heck out of it

Oh man, nice bathtub ring.

Wire harness & lights $28 (Walmart), new white dacron jib $295, 1 1/2 hour sanding grounge off, 1/2 hour wax job, $25 footloop kit on gunwales & you're in for $1100. It's a steal! Pete

presto13031 wrote: I sense something in the Force, a daggerboard fix "how to"....

I guess I'll need to write up the story to go with the pictures ..................

Damon - this part may cost you a six pack of Dos Equis!! 😀

i'll donate a fav case of beer and future time to help Damon get that dagger board fixed... That 18SX is amazing... small donations?
Damon... Post your PayPal address? .... if fans of us cats send you $10-$20 ish cash, you're on the water ASAP 🙂

Edited by fxloop on Jun 20, 2013 - 07:21 AM.

Damon - take the donations The beer cooler is empty You dont have to tell em I've already got it fixed 😉

pbegle wrote: Wire harness & lights $28 (Walmart), new white dacron jib $295, 1 1/2 hour sanding grounge off, 1/2 hour wax job, $25 footloop kit on gunwales & you're in for $1100. It's a steal! Pete

I agree, great deal, somebody give this Prindle a home.

Damon, your repaired board looks amazing, like brand new.... Props to the company that fixed it!! Superb
Tim

Lee (captedteach) took care of the problem, it's good to have friends with skills!

I have finished adding a bit of text to all the pix that were taken during the repair and posted if anyone cares to read about it Feel free to ask questions if you have any

The captains pictures with descriptions.
http://www.thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=102857

What tool was used for shaping the boards? Belt Sander?

rondog wrote: What tool was used for shaping the boards? Belt Sander?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyWSnAvI9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7h58sONCek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr4aHY1L0M0