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[quote=motivated]Hey, many thanks for all the great tips and advice!  Seems like this is a very cool community.  This is my second 16, the first I owned in the 70's and I worked at a Hobie Shop in Florida where I sold, repaired and gave sailing lessons on all things Hobie.  I know these boats better than I know my kids.  However, it is my understanding that they've made some drastic improvements in the technology and hardware, so I was asking in hopes of understanding what kind of upgrades make sense on these newer boats.  So, a few questions:

H16 Stock Block Sets - I believe they are 6:1 Harken sets.  What kind of upgrade could be made to make this "max legal downhaul"?

I liked the idea of epoxy'ing the corner castings.  What a great idea.  Anyone have experience with this?  I'm wondering about the unlikely case that you need to disassemble the cross or side bars, you prolly wouldn't be able to get them apart, right?

I'm ordering the boat with plain white sails and intend to have a custom set made.  Where can I get plans (or a sailmaker with plans) for a square top mainsail?  I don't think I've ever seen an example of that on a H16.

The anti-pitch pole foils - Yeah, that was a lot of fun on those downwind tacks.  I saw those in the hobie catalogue.  I'm assuming they're effective as preventing the hull from submerging at max speed?

Kind regards!!

P.S.  I posted my Hobie from 1975 (#15921) as my avatar.  The new one will be quite different.<em>Edited by motivated on Jun 06, 2011 - 08:24 AM.</em> [/quote]

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