New to the Wave. Tiller ???

This is a problem to explain to you because I do not know which kind of system you have. The company recently changed the entire tiller/rudder system.

With the original system, the mainsheet system was BEHIND the tiller crossbar.

The new Hobie Wave rudder/tiller system is totally different. The tiller arms are shorter, and the mainsheet system attaches IN FRONT of the tiller crossbar.

So if you have a tiller extension, you now have to handle it in exactly the same way as all the other beach cats of the world -- when you tack, you pass the tiller extension around behind the mainsheet system and hand it to yourself on the other side. (And I have never heard of anybody falling overboard doing this.)

Personally, I have not sailed yet on a Wave with the new rudder/tiller system, and I think I prefer the original system. But the new rudder system is supposed to be much easier to lock the rudders up and down. (On the other hand, I have heard that it is harder to tack because of the tiller arms being so short and not being canted inward at all.)

I am keeping an open mind about it.

P.S. In the Wave Class Association one-design rules, a tiller extension is not allowed, so we have never had to deal with it one way or the other.

Thanks for your reply.
I have yet to try her out on the water yet, hence my lack of knowledge of how I would pass the extn..
Mary you state that it is the newer boats with the block fwd of the tiller - with shorter arms. My Wave is a 2001 and everything here in the UK points to the "newer boats" having longer arms, with the block aft of the tiller. So I may have a hybrid, perhaps.. These things happen alot in the UK.. with boats, cars, electrical stuff, they have bits of one model and bits of another..
Anyway thanks again and I look fwd to a try out armed with your guidance/expalnation in mind.
KPM

Perhaps in Europe they used that system with the shorter tiller arms before we got them in the United States, so maybe we are now using the European system and maybe Europe is now using the U.S. system.

At least now you know there are at least two different tiller/rudder systems. And maybe you have a third one.

Thanks Mary.
Maybe.. It is a short version that's for sure.
I have been cleaning everything up. Do you know what is the best "stuff" for the hulls. I always like to get everything clean and than wax up. What do you think/know?

Thanks again
Peter

If you do a search on our forums using the words "cleaning hulls" and then click on "all posts" and ask for 25 (or more) posts per page, you will find lots of information.

One of these days I am going to have to read that stuff myself so I can clean my own boat.

Thanks again Mary.
However the Wave is poythene, is it not? The psots I have seen about cleaning are not waves and are of the grp - fibreglass types. Polythene will no doubt have it's own properties that some cleaning agents will be at odds with - perhaps..
General cleaning is no problem but it's the marks that do not come off. I have cleaned many things in my time - spending hours , on and off, with much elabow grease. Sometimes I drop on a product, try it and in 1 mniute the mark has gone.. I could try some stuff I have but in my mind's eye a see abig hole appearing so it will stay on the shelf.
When I find one I will let you know.
Peter