Hobie 16 Squirrel Rescue

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 18, 2014 - 05:22 PM
This video is a couple of years old but I just found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVIU__17BI

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 18, 2014 - 09:28 PM
that was cool, wife said "cute"

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 18, 2014 - 10:28 PM
LOVE IT! Great post!

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 19, 2014 - 01:49 PM
That was pretty cool!

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 20, 2014 - 06:28 AM
that's ridiculous. NEVER give the main sheets to a rodent. they sail like animals
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Link to this post Posted: Jun 20, 2014 - 10:43 AM
MN3that's ridiculous. NEVER give the main sheets to a rodent. they sail like animals


I kept expecting the squirrel to bite the dude. Then when it tried to climb the mainsheet, I bet if it hadn't been so tired it would have climbed right up the sail, now you have a squirrel hanging onto the top batten!

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 20, 2014 - 11:46 AM
It's a good thing it wasn't Bullwinkle Moose! That H16 would have never been the same.

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Link to this post Posted: Jun 22, 2014 - 07:25 AM
it coulda gone real bad, real quick.

but it woulda made one hell of a video


QuoteI kept expecting the squirrel to bite the dude. Then when it tried to climb the mainsheet, I bet if it hadn't been so tired it would have climbed right up the sail, now you have a squirrel hanging onto the top batten!