[quote=Edchris177][quote]Do you mean SuperCat?[/quote]
Yes, thank you for the correction.
[quote] it's not uncommon to bury the bows up to the front crossbar on a broad reach, but 9 times out of 10, she'll pop back up.[/quote]
I think we've used up 8 of the 9 lives then! At one point it drove the ENTIRE hull below water on a beam/broad reach. The boat very quickly ground to a halt, recovered, then kept going.
[quote] How much total weight on board? Where were you positioned?[/quote]
I'm 170, & my buddy is around 190ish. I was sitting as far aft on that wing as I could get, & he was snuggled so close to me people might get ideas!
I don't think I ever got as wet in the face on the 5.7. The 5.0 with both of us was wetter, but not Hobie wet. I thought the "lip" on the H18 hulls would deflect some of the water. Perhaps because the Nacra hulls are quite a bit higher, they keep you drier.
There were several instances where we had our feet yanked off the hull. Of course trapped out would be more weight on your feet vs sitting on wings, but I think we both would have been washed off several times.
It was a Hell of a lot of fun, & once we moved back into the bay & got away from the waves the ride was dry.
We kept it on its feet all day, & at the end there is maybe 1/2 cupful of water in the port hull, & a shot glass or two in the other. That is after 15 days of sailing, there isn't enough to drain, or even bother sponging out.
I wanted to swap those crappy Seaway jib blocks for the Harkens, but the track is just a bit to shallow to accept the Harken slider. I find the locking knob for the slider on the Seaway sticks way up, & catches lines. I did ditch the Seaway main blocks, & put my Harken 7:1 on. It is way more convenient to just drop the S hook onto the beam than reeve those 3 single blocks.<!-- editby --><em>Edited by Edchris177 on Jul 15, 2016 - 03:05 PM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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