Mizi,

I answered your post early this morning just before I went out to go sailing so I rushed through it. Your question was "even without crew?". The last time I did it I was alone because my crew had fallen off. He and I were both on the wire and he went in to straighten out the main sheet. When he went back out he didn't know he had come unhooked and put his weight on the hook that wasn't there. The wind was up around 25 to 35 mph (per weather report) and I couldn't get the boat to come about. I finally put more power to it and turned over. The wind on the tramp caused it to turtle. My crew was 300 yds (close to 300 meters) from me so I got it out of the turtle by myself by raising the bows. I think the bouyancy of the mast helps a lot as the bows come up. I also got the boat the rest of the way up alone that day. There is another trick that helps. If you travel the jib all the way out on the down side and pull the jib sheet tight on that side without cleating it, it will trap wind in the jib and help lift the mast while you are pulling on the righting line (and holding the jib sheet). In this case, the mast should be angled back some off the wind rather than straight into it. You don't cleat the jib since the wind on the jib could blow the boat on over again.

Howard
(I wasn't sailing the Hobie today, I was sailing a catboat which is a cat of a different breed.)