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Author:  mmadge [ Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:49 pm ]
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Check out this site for some nice sailing pics. and screen saver.
http://www.hobiecat.com.au/sailing/index.html
Author:  zzcoreyzz [ Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:02 pm ]
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"Hobie Cat Australasia"

Is that a misspelling or a deliberate catch phrase?
Author:  Adrio [ Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:03 am ]
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back in the stone age when I was in highschool, that is what my geography teachers called the region.
Author:  localizer [ Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:21 am ]
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I'm curious - what are the the two dark sheets (wires) that go from the dolphin striker to the mast? You can see them on this picture:
http://www.hobiecat.com.au/images/wallp ... 024_16.jpg
Author:  nerfrider [ Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:26 am ]
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Following is from www.wikipedia.com
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Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast).

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Geopolitically, Australasia is sometimes used as a term for New Zealand and Australia together, in the absence of another word limited to those two countries. Sometimes Papua New Guinea is encompassed by the term. There are many organizations whose names are prefixed with "(Royal) Australasian Society" that are limited to just New Zealand and Australia.
Author:  tjp [ Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:39 am ]
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localizer wrote:
I'm curious - what are the the two dark sheets (wires) that go from the dolphin striker to the mast? You can see them on this picture:
http://www.hobiecat.com.au/images/wallp ... 024_16.jpg
That's a tangle-preventer. More common on the H18, it's just a piece of bungee that keeps the jib sheets from getting stuck in the mast rotation.
Author:  mmadge [ Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:33 pm ]
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tjp wrote:
localizer wrote:
I'm curious - what are the the two dark sheets (wires) that go from the dolphin striker to the mast? You can see them on this picture:
http://www.hobiecat.com.au/images/wallp ... 024_16.jpg
That's a tangle-preventer. More common on the H18, it's just a piece of bungee that keeps the jib sheets from getting stuck in the mast rotation.


Never seen those on a 16 before.
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