Check Facebook - one is there Hobie Cats, North America. $25

I ended up getting used billboard material - they sell the stuff a lot if you look around. One billboard is a TON of tarp. It is, by design highly U...

I'd stick with cotter pins, because they SEEM to stay put better. And, it'll be up there a while where you can't easily inspect it for security. I t...

Easy-pull up the engineering stats for each tubing (aluminum and stainless) and compare. You want to match and that same sheet will tell you the weig...

Yup, but that stainless tube is thin and derives it's strength from the diameter more than the wall thickness. Probably isn't much different in weigh...

If you can weld stainless, which is easier than aluminum I think you could use exhaust tubing (maybe) - and, the reason I bring up exhaust tubing is t...

Hobie 21SE points, well...meh. Better than a 16, but not as good as a mono-hull. I'm guessing you're right about the Nacra pointing better. The Nac...

Dual wall drainage pipe works great. Picked up a couple 15" cutoffs from a construction site. Turns out they are designed to plug into each other wi...

I'm interested in seeing this "whale tail". Still working on my set up.

Ditto - sails can cost as much as that "great deal, used boat"... You can fit that number of people on a Hobie Getaway, but that's a drop in performa...

I just replaced my axel last night with 1.5", sch 40 pipe, which ends up being 1.90 OD (roughly). It's a little sloppier, but worked fine. I still d...

BTW - just found out that a properly sourced axel (2" x .125" wall, 6061 T-6 aluminum Tube/not "pipe" - 120" long) costs about $85, best price I could...

10' wide boat = use a STRONG axel. I now have a banana axel trying to have used some galvanized fence post (1.75 inch) to extend my standard cattrax ...

Triangle=that area on your trailer before the tongue, probably. Is there a technical name for it?

I'm liking my 21SE, and don't find it complex to rig at all. But, I'm not currently flying a spinnaker. If it takes longer than 1 hour to set up fro...

Considering a broken comtip/dropped mast = "totaled", yup - a good deal indeed. That's how I got a ton of my spare parts; bought one that was headed ...

It's not the tiller arm that's rotating; that's fine. It's the crossbar that's rotating. The non-adjustable side of the cross bar on the one I have ...

Didn't get out to it this weekend (Mother's day priorities), but Matt Miller indicated that Hobie Europe used to "freeze" the swivel/non-adjusting end...

Yup - parts boat... But, if you're in need of a mast or comptip, the other parts are bonus material. Or bane, depending on the amount of yard space y...

All good. I actually have a couple cross bars. This one is my spare, so going back is easy. I'll keep playing this one out because it seems to be r...

A straight bar would fix it. It's also way too nice to have to dump the mod. Makes setup and transport way easier. The other option offered was to ...

Thanks for the link to the H20 thing; interesting solution and it would retro-fit to these castings, only I'd have to either cast or machine them out ...

So, I came up with an interim solution, as I do not want to add a bumper; it won't allow the rudders to go far enough hard over if I add it. So, Tefl...

WNR was nicely attended, but only saw a couple of cats - couldn't tell who/what they were. Will get some experience and then play...Edited by charles...

I did the same when I replaced the luff zipper on my jib - went with the #10 YKK in plastic. The larger teeth actually make it easier to manipulate, ...

Yeah, i guess the snorkel would only suit me for setting up the day before, prepping to trailer out because my routine is to back it in the yard, dump...

I'll do pics as soon as the weather breaks here. Probably take off Friday and sail off the Dike. That'll give me the opportunity to document it as I...

Very cool. Yes, I'll be there. Funny, I grew up here, worked at Kemah Hardware delivering marine lumber and pilings, etc. and only now as I'm older ...

What else you need?

Sorry i'm so late picking this up. I have a spare traveler, but it has no balls. there's a tool and you need a new set of bearing balls to install i...