Tramp area doesn't count. H-16 sail area is 218 vs 113 for H-14. This pressure is what counts. Hobie & Prindle 16 traditionally came with 5:1. Upg...

6:1 is too much purchase for H-14. 5:1 preferred. You'll end up with too much line on deck. Pete

I ran into Sterling Santly, owner of Surfglas, a number of years ago in La Paz. We were on the beach & I commented how I felt a lot of the Hobies wer...

Point of clarification. Where as the camp bid for the P-16 showed on my avatar, it's because my friend Michael was watching Dodgers game with me & bo...

My 16 year-old son and I have started a sailing class for kids who attend the YMCA camp in Big Bear. The camp sits right on the lake. My son has exp...

What kind of rivets were you using ? Pete

What's wrong ? Too many boats ! Pete

Have 3 H-18 masts. Masts are $250 each & shipping for 2 or 3 is $300. See ad in Classifieds. Same thing happened here a few years ago on Malibu Beac...

Castings are expensive; I doubt there are two. I measured 20 P-16/P-18 rudders on our beach. They were all 37". The lone P-19 rudders measured 35"....

Or simply buy a used old style Prindle16 jib as they have the luff wire like H-16 but no battens. I have a couple. Pete

Probably a nacra 5.2, earliest one built. I have daggers, rudders & xbar, main & jib for it. I'd offer $100 for it. PeteEdited by pbegle on Sep...

Check classifieds. I can send you a mast to your door for $400. Pete

I like the baby bob by Hobie. It's smaller & looks more proportional to mast & boat & somewhat aerodynamic. The bracket can be bent to fit most mast...

You will soon tire raising the Supercat mast. Pete

Alex used to frequent my windsurf shop in L.A. after he won back the Little Americas Cup from the Aussies with a soft sail, Robbie Harvey crewing. ...

Have a wood Tornado in very good condition as well as a Panthercraft glass Tornado, freshly painted hulls with full covers. One road trailer & one ti...

I'ts out of the system; you won't pay old fees. Pete

The only thing I would add is to have a split tail at end of righting line so that stacked people are not getting in each others way. Side by side pu...

When about the 7th kid got electrocuted in the '70's, Hobie Cat settled a lawsuit by pledging all Hobies would have plastic tops & rope halyards. I h...

Common thing in Prindle 16 & 18. Occurs when noobies throw the helm over too much when tacking. Happened during previous owners time with boat. Jus...

For later trips on Sea of Cortez, I replaced the screw in 6" ports with Viking twist open ports for easier access. Then used glas covered nomex to bu...

We went out about 17 miles to clear a point way up the lake. I actually got concerned when couldn't see the shore & made Don turn back a mile til I w...

Sorry, Kevin, but the protocol for a trip like that is two phone calls. In 1975, CRAM had a regatta in St Joesph, Mi near bottom of lake. Don Sapiko...

No other drop offs. Even the price quoted is questionable because I used S.D. terminal and put mast on my roof top to carry one hour down the mtn, th...

$450-$500. $250 for mast, $150 shipping, $50-$100 to get to San Diego or Carson (L.A.). Frankly I won't drive to L.A. Pete

Prindle factory long gone, located in Holland or France now I believe. Used mast sometimes available and can be shipped for reasonable price, around ...

One K, Bob. Mast is 30' so needs to be cut down. Daggers are carbon fiber/nomex. Don't have oem's. Trailer is very good, no rust, new lights, good...

Don't want the project, but have the trailer, mast, tramp, sails, jib blocke, 7:1 mainsheet Harkin,rudders, castings with pivmatics, tiller xbar & ext...

Thanks, Bob. Did you get my payment!

Have a Prindle 18 with very nice sails, and a 20' wood Tornado on tilt trailer or glass Tornado freshly painted on tilt or road trailer. Pete 909-8...