And, if you can find a NACRA 570, it appears that the wing seats are backwards compatible. That’s a huge bonus in my book

NRS farmer John’s are a good choice matched up to a fleece spray top. NRS makes a couple in a few thicknesses. The 1.5 does me well on the third coa...

First up, I don’t know a great deal about Pringle’s, but 75 seems like a huge block set. The larger sized pulleys make bending the line across easier...

Not an issue, but I’d go with the 10:1. My 21 se came with 57 mm 8:1 and was “enough” but the 10:1 was way better. All on 57mm harken with 3/8 (10mm...

Most Sunbrella I know of, I think is acrylic. Tough stuff, hard for them to dye, I think.

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Keep in mind that cover is for a boat with a boom, but likely could be used with mast down. Might be small for the mast down position now that I think...

I’m in the middle of building a cover for my 500 mk2. Compared to other projects, this seems to have too many choices, but I think I’ve settled on a ...

Now this thread is what you call ironic.

That looks like it’s toast. All fiberglass “…can be repaired”, but is it worth it? Repairing that means you’ll loose the even flex designed along th...

Depending on how and where they are broken, comp tips can be repaired, BUT that depends on you being able to get the one piece in the mast out in one ...

Bummer-sorry to hear about the break. Used, either here or on Hobies forum may be your best bet, but haven’t seen many. You may need to scrounge for...

I ended up climbing up the dolphin striker and releasing real quick. Never even started to turtle, felt stable.

They are like magic. Righted a Hobie 21 with them. But the extension cable broke. That was my fault for using to thin a wire for the extension. Had ...

It’s possible, but you need a fresh Hobie 16 to translate the languages into sailor first. I can’t remember the procedure after that.

Just be sure to clean the tube and tiller, sand both, wipe with acetone and use a longer setting epoxy. Butter up the insides as well as tubing to ens...

Welding the hulls depends entirely upon the type of plastic used in the roto-molding process. Martin is correct, at least for Hobie's plastic concoct...

On second consideration, Hobie used the sail slugs already on the 21 SC, apparently?

Slugs are just an idea - not tried yet. I've seen them somewhere else on a higher end cat, but can't recall where. The point of the matter is to hav...

the pro tramp stuff was my by description of the trampoline material by trampolineproshop (not sure if they're any "better", but their service and pri...

Well like the "Ferrari" material for one. I don't think I spelled that right. Only thing is, for all the world of people ranting over the stuff, I'v...

Carp! I keep forgetting to login each time... That was me, above.

Hey, welcome! It's been a bit slow here, so give it a bit. Once The regattas get started the conversations warm up a bit. You'll Like the Getaway-i...

Very impressed Jerome, you even got close on the particular Texas regional dialect... 🙂

not truly "difficult", but time consuming and messy. Definitely possible. You should be getting that boat real cheap and the rest of it there. Sails...

pics of the mast base, mast and mast head would help. Anodized gold is unusual...

I hope Hobie can put it back together - I thought I read that they moved all of the production away from California up to somewhere in the north, like...

Now you're just bragging...it's a downright freezing 54 degrees here... I feel you about the setup in the heat of the summer, but more so the take-do...

Ok, more details as much as can be had since this is early on in planning: 1) Yeah, checking wind history, it's pretty reliably favorable and typicall...