Some of the Hobies have curved curved cross tubes which are problematic if you are adding a third (center) hull. Avoid asymmetrical hulls (original ...

Lots of buoyancy, fine entry the entire length of the hull and front trampoline are what you are looking for. It's been done before. Go to G-Cat's F...

you can patch tramps BUT if your hand or knee is making holes in the middle of your tramp it sounds shot / and if you continue to use it - you are usi...

The problem with the Nacra 5.0 rigging is that the bridles end in small forks and the forestay has a nicro pressed ( I think that's the right terminol...

I don't know if this will help you or not. Did you by any chance replace the mast base as well? I bought a new Nacra 500 back in '06 and had the sam...

adventurecat wrote: The other part of the equation is that the rental sail plan is quite a bit less sq ft than the standard configuration. Hence want...

Start the zipper around the headstay and the halyard. As you pull the halyard zip the luff around it and the headstay. When the jib is hoisted, disc...

Supersailmakers out of S. Fla. were the original makers of G-cat sails and still make them. A main for the 5.7 is 1049 including battens. You can't ...

It won't be worth the effort if you swap out the mast. The mast step arrangement is entirely different. The 5.7 is boomless. The foot length is cri...

There's been a lot of opinions on this one, only his time I have a question instead. I recently downsized from a G-cat 5.7 to a 5.0. It was a good m...

You guys are over thinking all this. Remember the old adage "if it works, don't fix it". I owned a Nacra 500 for ten years, bought new, and it did n...

To set up shroud tension i ask the heaviest guy in range for help (pulling a trapeze line as hard as he could while i set the shroud) Maybe this isn't...

It's not the bail but how the bail is attached. Presumably Hobie spread the blocks apart so as to spread the load apart. You lose some power by havi...

Stainless pins will route out holes in aluminum rudder castings much faster than aluminum pins. The wear with aluminum against aluminum is way slower...

I bought a couple of harnesses from the "Tackle Shack" near St. Pete a few years ago. They had a line coming down from the ceiling with a "dog bone" ...

Murray's probably knows the size and can make you one. It's probably longer on the 500 because the jib tack is higher. It has to be to get the right...

gahamby wrote: I went with one of these. This link is just for example. I shopped around and got it cheaper. It too will jam if you aren't paying at...

I have a set of double trap wires with bullet blocks that would probably work on a H16. They weren't long enough for my G-Cat. They've never been us...

I sailed a 5.2 back in the 80's. The thing that I remember most about it was had this support tube that ran fore and aft right down the middle of the...

jack108136 wrote: Have you been to the Sarasota Sailing Squadron? Been there for the Labor Day Regatta and the Buzzelli Rendevous. Excellent facilit...

All good advice. I've mast up storage for years but now that I'm sailing less, I prefer taking my boat home and keeping it in the shade. A good cove...

Try side guides. You can buy them made of PVC reinforced or make them yourself with PVC. They will make your lights more visible and allow you to se...

Thirty minutes? Forty five minutes? There are more techniques to doing this than there are kinds of beach cats. Once you've got your method down you...

My money is the ring-ding got snagged, bent and came off... thus allowing your shroud to be free (i have never seen nor heard of a correctly sized pin...

I have to ask again, have you checked Murrays? Their "power righting system" is a pole that folds under the tramp with support lines and hardware and...

Murreys used to have one in their catalogue. If I remember correctly it was a Rick White design. I don't remember it being too expensive.

I once saw a guy that had to be in his late seventies solo raise a mast on a Hobie 18. The mast support on his trailer had an extension on the side t...