Used Mystere 4.3 in Texas

Well I found me a boat.
http://www.thebeachcats.com/modules... ;clid=2623&item=2002%20Mystere%204.3
Going to Slip tp Ship races Memorail weekend to get it. .

Doug Snell
Hobie 17
Soon to be Mystere 4.3
www.tcdyc.com

S2S is a good'un. Have fun. Hopefully, I'll see you there.

Tom:

I will look for you there. My friend Tami Shelton is one the the key people there. Look for my sail number and I will look for yours. My friend Pete Pollard is getting a Blade.

Doug Snell

Doug -

If you have any questions once you get the boat home, let me know - I'd be glad to help. Nice that it has new wires - that was the only problem I ever had with mine.

Also see from the pics that he's upgraded most of the blocks on the boat - make sure you really rinse those Ronstan autoratchets out well - they're tempermental. After two sets gummed up on me, I switched to Harken 57mm autos and was much happier - but I was not nearly as diligent with the Ronstans as I could have been.

*sigh* Did I mention that I miss my little boat? Your boat came from the 2002 US Youth Multihull Championship - there are pictures of it on the US SAILING site, too:

http://www.ussailing.org/championships/youth/multihull/stevens02.htm

Y'all enjoy the boat!

John:

Thanks. I will probably change them out and do most of the recommendation on the user group site. Do you race with main and spinnaker in Formula 15 or jib too? Are you going to Slip to Ship? Do you do any race in the South I may race you in? Will there be a Formula 14 showing at the Mid Americas on Lake Texoma?

Doug

Isn't MidAmericas a Hobie regatta?

Mary:

Yea Mary I guess you are right? Oh forgot we are Hobie Black Sheep here in Div 6. We always race Open events too if not enough for class. That is Div 14 country and they are Hobie phobics up there. What would be a Formula 14 race around me (Houston Texa area)?

Doug

Perfect!
I definitely think the Mystere is the way to go. Even so I am getting my first ride on the H16 today.

Hey, F14 looks like you - and you - for now, in TX. Encourage people to rig some up, find and post the rules (if any), and hustle up a class association. Bob Curry has (had?) a Hobie 14 with a huge squaretop and a reacher - it looked for all the world like your 17 sailplan dropped onto a Hobie 14. Other boats would be spin-rigged Nacra 4.5, and even a Wave with/without jib and WITH a spin or reacher could be "legal" if not necessarily terribly competitive (except maybe when the dogs are blowing off the chains?).

Good luck; I look forward to seeing y'all's new boat when you get it back.

(...Wave with/without jib and WITH a spin or reacher could be

legal

if not necessarily terribly competitive (except maybe when the dogs are blowing off the chains?).

Guess I have to take exception to that statement. The only time I have raced the Wave as an F14 was at Spring Fever last year. I only raced a few races, won them all, and finished 2nd overall.
One race was a drifter and the lil ole Wave was first to finish against all the bigger, hotter boats as well.., they started a few minutes behind me but no one ever caught me.

Also, won the Port Clinton Steeplechase overall against boats such as F18HT, Hobie 20, A-Class, Hobie 16, ete al.

And, this past June I won overall the Round the Bay Race in LaSalle, Michigan with the same rig. I believe there were about 50 boats.., ranging from Mystere to Inter 20s.

All this with a Wave and a Hooter. Am presently working on a Wave with longer pole, good sized self-tacking jib and roller-furling Hooter.

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Rick

Sorry Rick! Didn't mean to knock the Wave excessively...I'd love to have one, personally - maybe if I get rich when I grow up, I'll buy two!

Andrew:

Are you go to Slip tp Ship? I plan to get the boat there.

Doug