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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 02:30 PM
you guys are such Barbies.....how did you get into such a manly sport like sailing?......
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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 02:31 PM
Now if we could just rig Barbie's catamaran with a jib.....
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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 03:39 PM
The field hockey team was full? -
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Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 07:31 PM
Thanks guys. So far, I've tried the Barkeep's Friend treatment. As you can see (pic) it cleaned up the surface deposits, but did nothing for the mottled-gray discoloration. Less ugly, anyway.
Next dumb question: I've noticed that when I remove the hull plugs, after a sail, the port hull has a slight vacuum inside. i.e. The vent seems to be at least partially plugged. Is this anything to be concerned about? At least it's not vented through punctures!
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Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 10:56 PM
toddster, nothing to worry about, put it on your to-do-project list, unplug vent. Also on your to-do-list, take sander as in above post with 800 grit waterpaper and remove oxidization, I don't think the grey discoloration can be removed but that white haze on the surface will disappear leaving a great finish. Done any sailing yet?
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 12:16 PM
Yes, I've gotten a couple of sunday afternoons in on the water. Haven't found any real issues with the rigging & etc. but the winds have been mostly light. Hopefully we will soon shift from our feckless east wind winter weather pattern into the more constant west wind summer pattern. The few moments when the wind has actually picked up have been a blast. Literally going from taking a nap on the tramp on a long tack to hiking out and trying to hold it together while launching into hyper-warp. Then back again.
Also, the nearest boat ramp is inside a lagoon with a long narrow entrance channel that faces due east. If there's a graceful way to sail out of that into an east wind, I haven't found it yet.
Um... any tips on exactly how one unplugs a vent? Do you have to take the tramp and frame off?
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 12:45 PM
easy~! if you have any ports.. drill a very small hole in it.. done! (i did this myself) -
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Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 09:58 PM
New Dumb Question: How stiff is the frame supposed to be?
Today I beat up into 2-3 ft breaking swells for about 7 miles (setting up a couple of sweet long reaches coming home) and the rig got a pretty good "shake down." Sometimes, bouncing over the swells, it looked like the two hulls were "wig-wagging" a couple of inches, with respect to one another. That is, moving out of synch in the up-down plane. Is this normal? I got busy and forgot to worry about it. Didn't sink.
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Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 12:45 AM
Um... what's this thingy? This small piece of rigging has been down in the bottom of the boat bag, but doesn't seem to have any obvious place on the boat. I've been through the manual but don't see anything quite like it...
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Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 01:28 AM
Pretty sure that is an old hobie after market boom vang. They stopped adding them and even the attachement point on the boom sometime in teh early 80s I think. I don't think any cat really uses them anymore.
D.
edited by: Wolfman, Jul 26, 2010 - 12:33 AM
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Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 02:03 AM
that slop in the hulls is caused from the pylons getting worn or corrodded inside the cornor castings. An easy fix to your problem is to undo and drive out the bolts holding the hulls to the castings and slide out the pylon. (secure the hulls first!) clear out the vent tube inside the front pylons with a hanger or something then cut up an old beer can or two and flatten it out. Wrap it around the pylon and use a rubber mallet to pursuade the parts to go back together. Drill or punch a hole for the bolts this will stop the hulls from freewheeling on you not that that is really a big deal UNLESS a pylon is cracked or otherwise seriously damaged. Util then I recommend trailering and parking with the plugs out so pressure does not build up in the heat of the day -
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Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 11:09 AM
Hey Dave, isn't that fiddle block the exact same thing you sent me? It works great, I can actually pull the wrinkles out of the main now.
I've had the Nacra out 16 days now, am off till Sept 10, so I hope to break 30-40 before mid Sept.
Got the kids out on the wire, & my wife in 20 kts, man does that thing fly.
I went out solo once in almost 30 mph, could barely keep it rightside up, even depowered. Blew it 4 times trying to tack, it is definitely tougher when the wind gets up. I chickened out, once I got it turned around I skedaddled for chicken harbour (home dock) & waited for the wind to go down.
Yesterday the wind was at 35 clicks (22mph)took my wife on a picnic. We had lawn chairs, cooler & anchor on board, & she didn't feel like trapping out, so I arranged the flight paths so as to sail a less powerful route. Went 8 miles down to a provincial park beach. Man, that is the life, those guys on the ocean have it made. It really makes for a great day to just pull it up on the sand & take a break.
On the way home, just off the beach, as we cleared some anchored boats a bright yellow Hobie 16 pulled up & chatted a bit. He asked what is a Nacra, & if we could get any speed up with all the crap we had on board. I told the wife to put on the harness & hook on. She is only 120, if I dunk her, & I didn't have a harness, so I couldn't utilize the full power of 22kts wind. I told the guy I was pretty new to Cats & jokingly told him to try & keep up as we headed over to 8 mile point. Man, it was easy to outrun him, I can see now how racing becomes an affliction. I kept things pretty conservative,as I didn't relish dumping with all that gear. He was quite impressed, with the speed & how smooth it rode, blasting through 3' swells & powerboat wakes.
So now the "fleet" is myself & 2 Hobie 16s. There is a Hobie 19 just down the shore from me, but I've never seen it rigged.
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Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 12:54 PM
Some kind of boom vang was one of my guesses too. (The downhaul being kind of weak.) There's an attachment point on the boom, but I don't see where the other end would attach.
The other thought was some obsolete bit of jib rigging.
