My mast came down one winter. Result was my having to replace the ball rod in my N5.8NA twice that year. Standing rigging failed later that summer. My...

I'm in the no lubricant camp for all the reasons mentioned. Anything that holds dirt or sand is bad. Keep it clean and out of the dirt.

H16 ....fun versatile easy to manage common.

Pontoons? Arggghhhhh! Relieve tramp tension and dead blow mallet. Vinegar idea is a good one so is good old WD40!

Great tool for shaping the sail. I highly reccomend.

Dunno guys. Sounds like Hobie or Nacra or Prindle or a more common boat are better bets. Why on earth would you want something like this?

Prindle 16/Nacra 5.0 + any size Nacra Prindle and any boat with a similar hill design. Very stable and no pitchpole.

Yes..."Hobie Cat" = Generic term for Beach Cat.

Other than calling our hulls "pontoons" the other comment that makes me cringe equally and frequently is telling me that my Shiba Inu "looks like a f...

Last battens I bought showed up in PVC pipe taped off at ends. Worked great.

Buy the replaccement from Murrays or your Nacra dealer. THIS IS A WEAR PART. It is designed to fail as it did. Anything else will do worse damage. P...

P18 is a great boat. Congrats.

THe wave is boring and so is the getaway. If you want volume and stabliity and speed look at the Nacra 5.0 and descendants. The H16 however is a fine ...

Completely agree with Arch on his points. Pointing up is great but the boards are a pain in the rear end. By moving crew weight forward onto the skeg ...

PS: In my experience the 5.8na is NOT a good single hand boat over 15 knots. Easy to get over powered even when dumping wind. I too am a big guy. Even...

So I own a 5.8na. I love it but....played hard with a 5.0 yesterday and discoverered the joys of skegs vs boards. My boards are undergoing their seco...

So I drilled out and retapped when I strippped my strap bolts years ago. My dealer said that the bolts are designed to rip out of the plates vs destro...

I'm pretty sceptical as well. Just more drilling for questionable benefit. Thanks for the responses. I think I'll buy the Hawaiian system and find a g...

That I have. I'm looking for the righting system, Yes doing it myself.

I used Marinetex in desperation on my Nacra years ago as my beach at the time had babyhead rocks at the waterline on occasion. Worked great although I...

Bought these, put em on, had a friend on the wire...fail ... 1/2 hour single handling my 5.8 in 15+/4' waves trying to find/retrieve him. Back to beac...

Try flipping her over and see if the hulls pop back. A few weeks ago on a busy weekend the #!!****%% paddle board concession on our beach was taki...

So tragic. What a waste. It need not have happened. We were talking this issue last weekend. When we were all younger (20's) we all strapped these lam...

Great thread guys! This is why this site rocks. I too need a set of end caps. Looks like Nacraman 57 has the solution. Thanks Nacraman57! Interesti...

If you wear knee pads, I think most class rules says that you have to have a hobie bob also. I you are not abraded, sunburned, and bleeding at the en...

Setting the preload to 3/8" was only about 10-15 ft lbs, no lube used. One lesson learned from past maintenance and my dealer. Nothing on these boats...