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Strobe

Post subject: New owner needing help

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:33 am

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Greetings everyone, I am a new (South African) owner of an older boat, but will need all the help I can get.
Please can you point me in the direction of a instruction manual on how to de-rig the boat as well as rig it up again for sailing?
Next question - what is the length of the 16's boom as I need to acquire a trailer box for the boom, sails, rudders etc.
Sincerely
Geoff

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MBounds

Post subject: Re: New owner needing help

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:21 am

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Hobie 16 Assembly Manual - http://static.hobiecat.com/2010_archive/support/pdfs/H16_Manual.pdf

Boom is about 9 ft (3 m) long.

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Benfrancis78

Post subject: Re: New owner needing help

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:32 pm

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MBounds wrote:

Hobie 16 Assembly Manual - http://static.hobiecat.com/2010_archive/support/pdfs/H16_Manual.pdf

Boom is about 9 ft (3 m) long.

I don't know if this an original idea or not, mine came with a big ol' bit of pipe secured to the trailer. Probably around 40 cms diameter from a road work or some thing. Two circles of wood one end with hinge. An ingenious idea for a cheap trailer box I thought.

Could be that everyone does it I've never seen one before

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DavidBell47

Post subject: Re: New owner needing help

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:54 pm

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Location: Los Angeles

Like this?????

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Happy Sailing,

David

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Benfrancis78

Post subject: Re: New owner needing help

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:16 pm

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Yeah mine is significantly more "ghetto" as is my whole boat. Seems like an economically alternative to a trailer box. Mine looks like it was stolen from a roads works

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DavidBell47

Post subject: Re: New owner needing help

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:48 pm

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If you notice, there's a smaller one on the opposite side that houses the boom, hiking sticks, e.t.c. After looking into the price of a catbox, this was definitely a reasonable alternative.

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waldorf

Post subject: Re: New owner needing help

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:54 pm

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Location: Sechelt, BC, Canada... Sunshine Coast

here is a pdf file with a few tips....
http://www.waldorfs.com/HobieRiggingBasics.pdf
http://www.waldorfs.com/HobieRiggingBasics.pdf

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