Hobie 14 Wings 1
I put this little beastie together when my first Hobie 17 tore itself apart . After 12 years sailing Hobie 17 and being quite partial to the comfort and mechanical advantage of trapezing from a wing, returning to a Hobie 14 wilst my 17 insurers decided what to do with me (and I had sailed the 14 from 1972 to 1987) was going to be quite a letdown . Not so, as this is only recretational sailing (there is not any 14 competition in Western Australia any more), I could put a wing on a Hobie 14 and go like a striped ape! That is indeed how she performed, with a VMG to windward far better than the local Hobie 16 fleet.
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