I've been binging your videos for the past few days. I getting a Hobie 14 and trying to get a feel for it on RU-vid. I've been sailing for 3 years and have 40+ sailing trips on a 25 foot monohull. Thank for putting this content out.
Always unsheet your main and jib when trying to right the cat. Otherwise the sails act like a cup when they are in the water. If they are full of water the job is much harder!
I found another used 16 for cheap that wasn't in sailing shape by itself, but had really solid hulls. Popped the blues off and put the yellows on. Feels great!
That is the Hawaiian righting system from Murray's. Apparently it can help make righting easier since you can use the middle of the line to hold onto. I haven't found it revolutionary or anything and I may just remove it to clean the boat up
This is crazy. And just terrible timing me watching this since I’m buying a H16 this weekend hahaha gotta love the algorithm lol Had no idea this could happen like that. Hopefully you can find a used one for a bargain, they are out there I’ve been searching. Doesn’t look like much was damaged besides the hull
Don't let this stop you from getting a nice used 16! But yeah I actually found a cheap 16 that had solid hulls and I've already swapped them out. My next upload will show my new yellow hulls! In my case, this failure was just waiting to happen. The hulls had a ton of soft spots everywhere. The good thing is it showed me exactly how and where it would fail with the soft spots it had
@@colesheive7649 Got it! Good to know about this. Mine should be solid, didn’t notice any soft spots so I’m going for it. Glad you found another one! Will be here for the next videos. Cheers from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Crazy. I wouldn’t have thought that THIS could even happen. How old was the boat? Had you identified soft spots in the hulls before the accident? I hope you‘ll find some used hulls or another 16 so that you can combine the best parts of both boats.
These hulls are 1978. If you look closely after we pitchpoled, you can see the bow had already been bent/warped. I believe the pitchpole initiated it and then my weight on the trapeze pulled the rest out of it. But these hulls definitely had some soft spots, so clearly this was waiting to happen.
@colesheive7649 yea where I live there are tons of cheap hobie 16s that could be scandalized for hulls. Good luck on your rebuild and re rig. You'll end up with something great
Not that day. Probably not enough wind, at least for consistent double trapeze. Wind here tends to be plenty for one and barely enough for 2, often not quite enough
Lose both sail first, it can be really dangerous in high wind when you right it, the catamaran can start rapidly and you will be dragged in the water with no way to jump until losing the boat or a new capsize.
I have a gopro 11, and I use Telemetry Overlay to put the different speed gages on the video footage. Most action cameras record gps data as well, you just have to use a program to extract it
I had a Hobie 14, then a 16 on Ottertail Lake in Minnesota growing up. Had a blast with both. Also had several spectacular capsizes. I installed a stay lengthener to help right the 16 - only to realize I then had quite a struggle to set the stay back to the correct length once righted while dealing with wind & the chop. Switched to a Hobie Tandem Island trimaran now that I’m in my 60’s. Had no desire to try right a cat at this point. It was tough when I was younger. I’m sure better sailors could pull it off at my age, though.
I've heard of the stay lengthening method for larger catamarans too like the hobie 20 and similar. This instance would have been easier if I remembered to let out the main more than it was (also having basically no wind made it tough)
I had a Hobie 16 for about a decade and never capsized. I always heard you should do it once just to practice righting it. But I was always afraid of breaking something (it was an old boat from the 1970s). Thanks for posting this!
Capsize practice is definitely important. My boat is actually an old salt as well, it's a 78. I got lucky that the previous owner kept it in such good shape
I am a true believer that solid monohull experience is the only way to truly get a good feel for small boat sailing. You just don't get the heeling cues on a catamaran. I miss my old C-15 a bit, but... The 16 has been a blast
Nice! When I was a young man, I almost lived on my H16 for about 7 years. My brother and I would sail in Texas storms and regularly hit 20-25 knots. The boat was like an extension of myself after the first 5 years. Sometimes I'd sail onto a beach or into a slip backwards to amaze the crowd, or single hand it in 25MPH breezes. Good times. If I wasn't here in the PNW now, I'd rent one for nostalgia's sake.
@@colesheive7649 Cool! If proficiency and speed are your goals, I'll share the big leap in my Hobie education. Besides reading everything by and about Hobie Alter (and George O'day books), I hung out weekends where the Hobie racers gathered, which in my case was Lake Texoma. Being an introvert myself, I never joined the association, but would sit for hours watching them race with binoculars. After the races, I'd sail out and race the best of them back to shore and watch every little move they made and eyeball every accessory on their boats. They taught me to make my Hobie scream in a real blow...literally. Both of the 16's I had would get a case of rudder hum at top speed.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing. I guess my version of that is simply watching videos on RU-vid (not much sailing of any kind happening around here!) But really all my sailing experience has been just getting out there and putting what I see others do to the test!
You guys probably would’ve avoided the capsize if your friend were sitting on the windward side instead. But a great learning experience. Nothing wrong with a capsize
Yup, I was definitely bold in my attempt to fly a hull like the cool kids. Glad to have my first capsize under my belt and looking forward to more action!
We did rotate the boat around to point the mast into the wind, but there was basically no wind to help us, lol. The great thing is now I know that even without the wind to help we can right it
