Thanks Jack, but i dont think it would fit. The corner castings for the tramp are made to fit to a hobie 14 mast which is smaller than the Hobie 16. There are lots of ways it could be modified to fit but they would all require extensive fabrication. I have gotten suggestions from making one out of wood, fibreglass, carbon fibre, stainless steel etc.
I spoke to the hobie company and they believe that it is not possible to replace them, after trying to remove the remains of the old ones i was inclined to agree but when my new pylons have been fabricated i intend to just glass them back into the hull.
It probably isnt going to be pretty.
Thanks for the offer...
Ben
Speaking of vintage hobies, when I was just a kid back in the 70's, my dad bought a brand new 16 #44726. Yellow hulls with a scripted name
Lollypop
painted boldly on each side. He sailed the boat extesively at the Hobie beach in Sandy Hook, NJ in the late 70's and early 80's. The boat was sold in the early 80's. I would love to find out what happened to it. Any one here ever seen, or know of the boat?
I am starting to get a little confused :-s about the ages of hobie 16s based on hull numbers/sail numbers.
The boat i broke in half had the sail number 19,017 but came with an older looking mainsail. It had the number 643 stamped on the pylons but i am beginning to believe these numbers may be batch numbers for the aluminium mast section or something. Just bought another hobie with painted hulls (going to scratch off the paint and try to find hull numbers) and a number in the 22xx range on the REAR pylons. Sail number is 80something thousand or so, cant remember right now.
I know sail numbers are batched by area and aren't necessarily in chronological order. Anyone know how to age the hulls without resorting to cutting them in half and counting the rings?
Ben
Ben
Ben,
Don't be confused by the sail numbers. Many classes assign sail numbers that correspond with the boat and when new sails are purchased the original sail number is used. This is not the case with Hobies.
Here's the link for hull identification
That
older looking
mainsail ... what sailmaker's patch is on the sail .... it wouldn't happen to be McGibbons????
First sailmaker????, then McGibbons, then West Coast Catamaran, then
Hobie
Most sails produced buy the Hobie Factory are numbered sequencely ... only a few crazy nuts like me order
No Number
sails and install/carry over our old numbers to our new sails.
My first cat purchased in 1983 ... 1971 trailer title, H16 White hulls/Blue decks ... White and Blue (alternating)Mainsail w/ McGibbons sailmaker's patch, Sail# 572 .... I could never find a serial number on the hulls ....
HarryMurphey
TheMightyHobie18/#9458, Fleet 54/Div11
Correction:
First H16 sailmaker-McKibbons (to approximently 1974), then
Coast Catamaran
, then
Hobie
Harry
Anybody care to help me determine the age/vintage of my H16?
I really do need some help with this.
The only thing I can find is the number 389 stamped into the forward pylons. The crossbar is also stamped infront of the ss tracks with the numbers 0 (nearest the mast) thru 8 (outermost point of the track) I imagine for setting jib travelers)
I really do need some help with this.
The only thing I can find is the number 389 stamped into the forward pylons.
That is your hull number and it was built in 1971.
Jeez! So, does that make me the winner/loser of the vintage cat? No wait I saw a lower three digit number...
Wow, a '71 and the hulls are rock solid. Jack, any ideas on the crossbar markings?
My '72 will qualify - it will certainly be more than 365 lbs!! I hope you are going to allow glued and screwed pylons....