[quote=white90gt]Bringing this back up, but lets add to it. I haven't done anything other than sail the hobie this year as time permitted. The original tramp is still holding up so far. I did some cleanup of the rudders themselves and polished them a bit, but other than that, just enjoyed sailing her. I actually entered it in the Big Kahuna Cup down on Galveston island from Bermuda Beach to Poretto Beach back in July with my 15 y/o daughter. We had a blast and my daughter may want to join me a little more often now that she has been on the hobie when we had a little wind instead of putt putting around.
I also took her out on Lake Houston down here on a day with a steady 15 mph wind and took turns taking sea scouts out for a trip to show them what BeachCat boats are all about, speed speed speed. We had setup a small course for our sunfish boats to race and while they were racing the course, I went back and forth on it the full length two times to their once LOL.
That said, I've noticed it seems the boat is a little weak when it comes to stiffness. As I cut through the waves, I can see the boat and hulls flexing a bit, meaning the downwind hull is breaking and riding the waves up/down as the upwind hull doesn't move quite as much. I figure it may be time to tighten things up. I don't know how to do that, so I was looking for advice. Do I have to take the whole tramp frame off, cut out the posts and build them back up? The hulls are both solid, no soft spots anywhere. There is some RTV around where the tramp frames go down into the hulls, so I assume there was a leak there and it may be weak/flexing.
Also, the bottoms of the hulls are starting to look a little thin I guess from riding on the trailer and from beaching it. My skipper for our Sea Scout Ship is decent with fiberglass, so I was thinking we would flip the boat over and try to build those up a little on the bottom? Any advice or videos for that?
Thanks,
Carl[/quote]
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