Transport and launching
In order to avoid hull damages :
- Always use a dolley with craddles
to transport your Hobie Tiger 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 with cradles.
Maintenance and repair
- 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 glas-
sfiber. 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
IN THE FOLLOWING PAGE.
Before sailing check the following points :
1/ Install the drain plugs – do not overtigh-
ten, hand tight is sufficient. Overtightening
may cause the drain plug flange to distort
and cause leakage.
2/ Tension the rig. This can be accom-
plished by having your assistant hang from
the trapeze or you can use mainsheet ten-
sion on one side at a time so that you can
adjust the shroud position in the side stay adjusters.
3/ Fit the daggerboards into the
daggerboards wells and adjust
the rubbers.
4/ 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)
- pins and spring rings on the forestay and shrouds (to prevent the mast to fall down)
- spring rings on the rudder pins (to prevent loosing the rudder assembly in case of capsizing)
Advices and Maintenance
