great thanks. I'm not sure who makes the blocks but they are indeed metal. Feel vindicated about being shouted at by husband for not being quick eno...

I have no fingernails, mine are very weak. The boat came with a screw box filled all sorts of gubbins and thingamajigs. There were some quick pins i...

Oh and we have the gooseneck boom pin without the locking pin that holds it in place. We got the whole boat rigged except the boom, sails up, got it ...

We took her out yesterday for the first time. We took her down late morning and there was more wind than I was happy taking an unfamiliar boat out in...

If you are comfortable sharing each other's boats you could rotate and have a combined time that you add to each week.

done 🙂

thanks, I don't think that is going to be a problem 😀 My husband is likely to be (sea)sick this week I think. I think he would have taken it out...

Thanks 🙂 Just to be clear, again, I don't know what I'm looking at when I look at a boat, someone else could look at that nacra and say "buy it, def...

We went and had a look at that cat and decided against it.

Thanks for all the help. We went and saw both boats. We felt very green when looking at them and felt like despite our lists we really didn't know e...

Tom, we are based in San Diego 🙂 There is another boat we are planning to look at tomorrow. Close to twice the price so it would have to be worth i...

MN3, thanks 🙂 I do have a local acquaintance that has owned Hobies for years if I get really stuck I will get in touch with him but the notes/video/p...

Thank you for looking those up for me and taking the time to copy them. I had seen some of those and had discounted them because they were from early...

I'm not but my older son is, he enjoys building his own longboards from scratch. He wanted us to buy two wrecked 16s but as he is away and a slow wor...

Thanks again for the help. I've been looking in California for the last few months and haven't seen anything much other than $12K Nacras and $3-1000 ...

thats very kind of you to offer but the seller is not available this weekend.

I wasn't going to post this because I was worried someone might beat us to it. But it is a two hour drive from us (hence why it is too far to ask an ...

Thanks again. I had done some research, that is why we were thinking of the 18 and how I found this forum 🙂 I had already found the followingbr /> ...

great, that has a lot of info!

West coast 🙂