Matt Miller, please build me a turquoise wing tramp set

No wings are currently made for Hobie 18s.

Looking to define the span that the Magnum was offered... and when the diagonal strut on the Magnum may have started. Earliest drawings of the Magnum Wing look to be fall of 1982. The frame drawing is August 1983 (1984 model year). No strut. Looks like a notation in early 1986 that the strut was added.

This is me sailing the Magnum 18 on a photo shoot down in Mexico... 1986 I think. This boat had the diagonal strut. There was a Hotline article about this trip "Burning Daylight". I don't have the copy here to confirm the dates.
Hi Matt, I Must say the wing tramps in that blue look great, in fact they look Fantastic. Cheers



The 21SE was shown in the same brochure with the new longer wing seat that was later used for the SX seat.

...and me sailing the SX with a Chute in the spring of 1989 off Oceanside harbor. John Wilson is my crew here (Hobie Owner, Tony Wilson's son) There are drawings dated fall of 1988, so the SX wing was up and running by 1988-89 (89 Model year).



Funny thing I found... we were calling the SX Wings the "Super Magnum" during the design stage.

Thanks for all of the information on the wings. I have a 89 18 Worlds boat that I have added Magnum wings too. It really changed my opinion on continuing to sail catamarans. I love to recreational sail with the wings. I will remove the wings, tabs and studs to race as it only takes about one hour. I just need to figure out how to change the trap wire around for "with wings & without wings".

My trap bungie usually wears at the point where the bungie passes through the "gunwale pass-through" fittings , also if you haven't made your bungies a continuius system on each side you can overstretch them.

I have installed (4) Harken Air blocks on each side .... one ea tied to the padeye at the bow and stern under the lip .... and one at each gunwale pass-through ( I actually tie these to to each other under the gunwale w/ a piece of 1/8" spectra) .... Then I use one long piece of 1/8" bungie (blue of course to match the boats color scheme) starting at the crew's trap I go through the airblock attached at the front gunwale pass-through ... forward to the airblock at the bow ... around that one then aft to the stern airblock .... around that one and up to and through the airblock installed at skippers trap and tie it off to the skipper's trap ....

My trap bungie's last for several years ... this system gives me enough stretch that I have no issues also when I have my Magnum Wings on the boat also .... I never need to re-tie the the bungie system except when the bungie stretchs alittle over time and I need to shorten it

Note: technically the pulley's at the Gunwale Pass-Throughs are not Class Legal. " the bungie must pass the the gunwale fitting" .... since the pulleys are tied as tightly as possible to that point on the boat I feel that I haven't violated the INTENT of the rule of relocating the Traps ... but there are always Sea Lawyers out there who want to win by any means, at any cost .... on or off the water. All I know is my trap bungies last a long time .... the more $$$$'s I save, is more $$$$'s I have to spend on attending regettas !!!!!