ET Hobie guy wrote:
she's scared of my sailing ability anyway and I didn't help the cause this past weekend.
No.... no you didn't.
But you gave me a good laugh!
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| Author: | ET Hobie guy [ Tue May 17, 2011 8:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | How stupid can one be? |
My wife an I took the H16 out to a local lake for the first time in over 6 months this past weekend. I know, I know. I have just been too busy with my other hobbies and chores over the winter. Anyway, we get to the lake and I flubb almost every part of the rigging process and have to back up and punt several times. Finally get the damn thing rigged and get on the water. After several minutes, I wonder why its sailing like a slug and then notice tornadoes coming off the rudder tips under water. I look down the tiller and see its toed out on both sides. DANG! Put the rudders on the wrong sides. We sail over to an island and flop the rudders and take off after a short lunch. Since I dropped the pins from the bottom when I switched the rudders, I removed the drain plugs so they would be out of the way. We took off to head back to the launch area and (don't get ahead of me, don't get ahead of me) I realized the lee hull was almost under water. That's when I smacked my forehead and said "I left the plug out of the starboard hull!" Sure enough, we get back to the ramp and the hull is probably almost half full of water. Yikes, BOY! Did I really have my head up my bum this day!?!? We still had a good time and lessons learned, next time will be better experience. I promised my wife........hell, she's scared of my sailing ability anyway and I didn't help the cause this past weekend. |
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| Author: | augaug [ Tue May 17, 2011 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
ET Hobie guy wrote: she's scared of my sailing ability anyway and I didn't help the cause this past weekend. No.... no you didn't. But you gave me a good laugh!
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| Author: | hawk592 [ Tue May 17, 2011 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
Almost did the rudder flop but caught it before going down the boat ramp. What I didn't catch were the plugs being out on both sides. Well, those hulls sucked in water like crazy before I even got it to the beach just about 100 yds from the ramp. Those plugs are now the first thing I check when rigging. Glad you had a good time anyway. |
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| Author: | Fa1321tx [ Wed May 18, 2011 8:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
Good News! Most people who leave thier plug out once never forget again and often check other peoples plugs before they will sail with them. |
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| Author: | ET Hobie guy [ Wed May 18, 2011 7:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
I was very surprised that we sailed over 3 miles with the plug out of the starboard hull and it didn't take on more water than it did. It was on the lee side so the hole was definately underwater. I suppose its hard for the water to go into the hole when sailing along at a decent clip. I think it sailed better with a bunch of water in one hull than it did with the rudders on the wrong side. |
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| Author: | TexKat [ Thu May 19, 2011 6:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
Many years ago i had left a plug loose when sailing Lake Mojave in Nevada. It was blowing 30+ so was hard to notice until pulling the boat up on shore. Happens to most everyone at least once! |
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| Author: | Karl Brogger [ Thu May 19, 2011 10:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
I'm so happy my boat doesn't have drain plugs. |
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| Author: | fastcat [ Thu May 19, 2011 12:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
No harm, no foul. Nothing like the school of hard knocks. 
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| Author: | Jman6631 [ Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
The really good lesson here that may not be obvious is the fact that the reserve buoyancy of the hulls really does work. If you do experience a catastrophic hull failure at least you know it will not sink under you. |
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| Author: | dolfnfan [ Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
Fa1321tx wrote: Good News! Most people who leave thier plug out once never forget again and often check other peoples plugs before they will sail with them. Amen to that! I have forgotten exactly ONE time! |
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| Author: | ncmbm [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How stupid can one be? |
The Hobies can go quite a ways without the plugs in. Not so with a motor boat, it will sink right on the trailer. Experience with both more than once! I get in a hurry and it is the first thing I will forget to check. |
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