HOBIE HILTON BOOMTENT

Not long after I bought my 16 back in the 70s I located an outfit that made a nylon boom-tent for it. The company was going out of business but sold me one of their tents. It was yellow colored ripstop nylon that compressed in its bag to about the size of a large spaghetti squash. It went over the boom and tied all four corners to the tramp's corner posts. Flaps fore and aft tied together. It was absolutely great. Some years later thieves stole it from me and I have looked hard for another one. Does anyone have or know about this product? Or know anyone fashioning a similar one of ripstop nylon? I find nothing similar on the Internet. A picture of it on my Hobie is on p. 160 2nd edition of Handbook of Trailer Sailing now out of print.

Thanks,

Bob Burgess
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Hey hunterb4, I just bought my first h16 and was actually thinking about making something along the same lines. I will be working on it over the next couple weeks and let you know what I come up with. Please provide any suggestions that would have made the one you had better.

Good to hear, WadeA. I know ripstop nylon is available online and it might not be too difficult to sew up something similar. Also, I suspect an 8x14 silver and blue plastic tarp could fill the need and be waterproof. Towels could be clothespinned over the ends with lines attaching it to the tramp corners. I plan to be sail/camping the Gulf out of Panama City, Florida in July for several days with a buddy and having done it before I know it will be a blast. Each morning we sat on the white sand between the bows in the shade of the draped foresail while brewing coffee on a single burner Coleman, adding a touch of cognac for flavor. We spent a week sailing that coast and living off crabs and fish we skin-dived and pole-speared in St. Andrews Bay. Great fun. Keep us posted on your boomtent progress.
Regards,
-hunter