Hobie 18 "Quiet Time" Rebuild

I started this topic so that greddawn's Hobie 18 wouldn't get lost in the long Referbing Hobie 18 Thread topic.

I gather Hobie 18's are getting a tad long in the tooth that you could start a couple of hundred: Hobie Referb threads. Great going on this one. Hey, if we work hard, we could start a whole fleet of Retro Hobie's. We could all meet at the local put in and show off our redoes like the cars guys do with 60's cars! 😆

First sail on Saturday, in Central Texas, Lake Fayette. If anyone caught the news, Central Texas has been flooding due to heavy rains, so we were pessimistic about even being able to sail. Fortunately, we caught a break in the weather during the late afternoon and were able to get out in about 10 knot winds. With so many last minute preparations, I have yet to finish the refurb write up, but now that it's on the water, my weekend evenings are much more free to get it done. So glad that the boat performed perfectly with only a few minor tweaks, and glad to bring a dead hobie back to life.

Beautiful restoration, congratulations!

looks great

Looks good. What paint was used for hulls?

revolution sm-1000, i think the color was navy or midnight blue, can't recall atm. Has held up perfectly to an absolute beating. Do not clearcoat over it though, turbulent flow caused peeling of the clearcoat. Base coat was not affected

What clear coat? Same brand? Might have been a reaction. I've not heard of this brand before. I'm not sure about non-two part paint. I've used interlux perfection on dingy hull bottoms and it's tough as nails. Looks sprayed after roll and tip. Glad its working out for you. I'll be painting my hulls later in the year.

The clearcoat was an enamel, I want to say rustoleum. The base coat of the paint was a 2 part epoxy, only the topcoat was single part. Roll and tip method worked great, but took quite a while.