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spinakerguy
PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:56 pm 
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Okay, I'm a newbie. Just purchased a Hobie 16 with a ripped (light blue) tramp which I need to replace. Seems like there are a lot of black ones out there. It also seems to me that a black tramp that's sitting in the Chicago sun in the summer time would be hotter than Hades. Is there something desirable about a black tramp? What do I need to know?

Thanks for helping out this very excited newbie!
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MBounds
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:04 am 
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Black tramps don't show dirt.

They don't get that hot, because they're mesh.

I have a blue mesh tramp on my 14 and it looks like crap after being on the road for a few hundred miles. All that air flowing through it - it's like a filter for road grime.

Don't have that problem on my 16, 17 and Tiger - they all have black tramps.


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New Hobie mesh tramps come in four different colors - Black, Turquoise, Blue, and Gray. New Hobie vinyl tramps come only in White.
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dstgean
 Post subject: I'm also in IL
PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:19 am 
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And my new to me H18 has a black tramp too. My wave has a blue tramp though. I don't trailer that boat though...

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