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HOBIE CAT 16
Maintenance & advices
Maintenance & repairs
- Always wash the hulls and the sails with fresh water after sailing in salt water.
- Take off the plugs to drain the water from the hulls.
- In order to avoid expensive repairs, it is recommended to check wear of hull bottoms as follows : as soon as
the first woven glass cloth appears, you should apply gelcoat or resin to protect the glassfiber. If the wear is
already so advanced that several layers of glass fiber have been worn through or the colored wear indicator is
showing, stop using them and rebuild the bottom with glassfiber and resin.
CAREFULLY READ AND OBSERVE THE SAFETY ADVICES MENTIONED
Transport and launching
In order to avoid hull damages :
- Always use a dolley to transport your Hobie on the
beach (even if it is sand beach) and for launching.
Step into the water with the dolley and once the cata
is afloat take out the dolley.
- DO NOT BEACH. Beaching, even smoothly, may
damage the hulls. use your beach dolley to take the
boat out of the water.
- For towing, always use an homologated road trailer.
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Before sailing check the
following points
:
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Install the drain plugs
– do not
overtighten, hand tight is sufficient.
Overtightening may cause the drain plug
flange to distort and cause leakage.
2/
Tension the rig.
This can be
accomplished by having your assistant
hang from the trapeze or you can use
mainsheet tension on one side at a time
so that you can adjust the shroud position in the side stay adjusters.
3/
Check all fastenings
:
- Mast tang shackles and shrouds (to prevent the mast to fall down)
- pins and trapeze rope locks (to prevent falling out in the water if the trapeze is not well fastened)
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