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 Post subject: New Sail for Outfitter
PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:02 am 
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Location: Spain, Benicasim
Hi everybody !

My questions from a beguiner

I just bought Outfitter two months ago. Amazing versatility but now i´d like to know how can i improve it to sail faster?

I wish to be wrong but no bigger sails for kayak are available from hobie, am i correct?

In case i could make my own sail, would i need get ST turbo (bigger fins) to compensate the new bigger sail ?

Perhaps any experienced sailor can help...

Thanks and greetings from Spain !!


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:14 am 
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Location: Tallahassee, FL
Hey Eliseo,
A hearty welcome to the Hobie Forum, and especially to someone from Espana (can't get the accent to work), since my Dad was born in Barcelona. Nope-no newer or larger sails for the Outfitter (great boat, BTW) or the other basic Mirage drive craft as yet-only for the new Adventure Island. However, a number of folks have adapted, or made, larger sails for several Hobie yaks. Especially check out Punchinello's posts, both here and over on KayakFishingStuff.com, for some really creative ideas.

http://kfs.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/frm/f/553103747

Good luck and have fun!
Best,
Dick

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 Post subject: 13 months later...
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:32 am 
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Hi Apalach !! I was reviewing some post at the forum and I saw your wellcome post. 13 months have past since those posts and i´ve been working on some good ideas to improve sailing on my Outfitter. I leave you a link here so you´ll see the 3.0 version of the upgrades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feRekrABqPk

The great thing is that system can adapt to every hobie kayak, no holes have been done to the hull to install it. I´m thinking now about installing a jib, larger than the first I did.

Greetings from Benicasim !!


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:54 pm 
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Hola Eliseo,
Nice vid and nice sailing! Congrats. BTW, you might want to check the e-mail reply notification box so you will know when someone responds to one of your posts. :D

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