Aquarius Sail Owners

I have been racing my 15 for years--hurting a ton of Hobie 16 feelings.

I weigh 175-180 and I prefer to sail solo on that boat. I can really feel the difference with crew. However, I am used to sailing it solo--and I REALLY know the boat, so that is probably why I can feel the difference.

I don't ...

I think the boats are so wet and there really isn't a lot of room for batteries or a tank, you would have to get very creative. A friend gave me an old 2 hp motor with a tank on the top, but it is a little too big for my liking. I was going to install port holes on the deck of my 19, anyway, so I ...

I have a cheetah motor mount I can part with. I got it on a Supercat 19 and thought I would use the platform as a committee boat, but... that aint gonna happen..

I tried to buy that boat, but missed it-- I have a replacement hull down in Norfolk, VA! I think it even has the same stripes on it.

I would love to get it out of the yard..

Again, Dang, Bill!!??

OK, so I get that glider wings are good, but we can't have THAT much of a high aspect ratio on our boats. My observations were from A cat and F18HT sailing. The A cats are very light and have high aspect ratio mains (like the Spitfire). It was my understanding that they didn't ...

dang, Bill!?

That was a small hole near the stern in a low stress area. I understand that fiberglass is all about the continuous fibers and all that, but in a simple hole repair like this... You don't have to go after it with a hand grenade when a pea shooter will do.

Bill,

I read the articles on the square tops--very informative! My question is about the sail shape difference on the leech. My pinhead has a huge roach in the middle of the sail and it tapers a little to the foot. That, to me, is like a bomber wing, which gives a lot of power in the middle of the ...

Apparently, Hobie sailors don't understand why I sail my 15 like I do--I trap out in front of the front beam and bury the leeward bow. They say it looks funny, but they usually see it from behind!

In this race, I was fighting a nasty current and I had to rely on the bow for 'lift'.

Now, I know in ...

I have a 19 that I am refurbishing and selling. I'm in Norfolk, VA.

Dan
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757-589-6920

I was thinking about that through the crack thing, too. I'm just not sure how I can get the resin to coat the inside of the hull, much less cleaning the inside of the hull.

So, what I'm thinking--I'm pretty sure there is a crack in the inner layer. I can do Matt's trick of making a patch and ...

I'm not sure, I didn't dig out any of the foam. I have a feeling, though, that it is probably delaminated on the back side. I'm thinking that I could make a much larger hole, dig out all the foam, then lay a few sheets of glass onto the back side glass and then fill the area with filling and then ...

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ground out area and close-up:

Closeup of old repair:

One of our local SC sailors picked up a 1981 Boston Whaler built 15 a few years ago and the previous owner had made some not-so-pretty repairs. One of the sterns looked like it was ripped off and patched back on and never finished. It looks like a good repair, but it needed a LOT of work. I have ...