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#256971 02/05/13 04:51 AM 02/05/13 04:51 AM |
Joined: May 2006 Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia JeffS
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Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia | It is very hard on a weta to get your weight in a position to stop the leaward hull sinking due to no trap wires and bendy mast. It feels fast and is tiring to ho.d the sheet in plenty of wind but there's a lot of drag. The arrow on the other hand gets up and planes in proper wind so it's no surprise to me that it has a higher speed. I enjoyed sailing both boats
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[Re: sailpowerd]
#256980 02/05/13 08:11 AM 02/05/13 08:11 AM |
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 932 Solomon's Island, MD samc99us
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Posts: 932 Solomon's Island, MD | Curious what the max speed on a Hobie 14 is? I've raced windsurfers on mine and held them pretty well, but didn't have GPS on board at the time. I would guesstimate we were north of 20kts at times, but that is just a guess. Two people with one on the wire to keep the lee hull out in 30 kts of breeze.
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[Re: sailpowerd]
#259173 04/25/13 05:25 AM 04/25/13 05:25 AM |
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. Timbo
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | A couple questions for any Hobie 14 guys:
1. Anyone use the Jib Kit? I was thinking of adding one to my H14, not for class racing, just for downwind speed and more power going upwind in lighter air. Any trouble with the jib kit that I should know about before I spend the bucks?
2. Anyone added foot straps to the back end? I was thinking of placing a foot strap either on the hull, aft of the aft corner of the platform, or on the very aft of the platform, but I'd have to tap screws into the aluminum frame and I don't really want to do that.
I find I put my front foot on the aft corner and my back foot on the hull as far back as I can get, when I'm reaching in big wind, to keep it from a nose dive into the back of a wave, but it's slippery back there! Has anyone figured out a good location for a foot strap?
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#259189 04/25/13 10:38 PM 04/25/13 10:38 PM | Scarecrow
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Unregistered | You're to far fwd. Front foot on the back corner of the hull, back foot on the rudder casting. | | |
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