Jim,

In 20 years of sailing my Hobie 16 I think I have turtled only twice. The boat doesn't have a tendency to start to turtle as you describe I never retrofitted to the comptip mast and I wonder if the extra weight is what causes that slow turtle on your 16. Do you have a comptip mast? Did the 14s get changed to comptip? The reason I turtled that I remember was a 25 to 35 mph wind blowing on the tramp with the mast still downwind.

Howard