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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:57 pm 
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I am looking to buy an h16 that is supposed to be an 87 model. My sister describes the hulls as light brown. I thought that color was abandoned a decade before. The last 3 of the HIN are 878, black pylons.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:26 pm 
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Bacho wrote:
I am looking to buy an h16 that is supposed to be an 87 model. My sister describes the hulls as light brown. I thought that color was abandoned a decade before. The last 3 of the HIN are 878, black pylons.

Mocha / brown hulls came with the "Keoke" sail pattern, sold in the late '70s.

A lighter colored tan was used on some of the late '80s boats - I think the "Tidal Wave" pattern (#98 on the chart) used those hulls. They're more a cafe au lait color.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:44 pm 
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Bacho wrote:
The last 3 of the HIN are 878, black pylons.


This would indicate a 1978 Hull.

http://www.hobiecat.com/support/article ... erial.html

Note, Matt: We have an '85 with Tidal Wave sails and that light color hull which was described to me by a friend as "champagne" as he recalled the option from ordering an H14 with Tidal Wave new back in the day.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:17 pm 
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MBounds wrote:
They're more a cafe au lait color.


Really, Matt?!? :lol:

I don't recall that one in my box of 8 Crayola's!! Or even the box of 64!!

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:11 pm 
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jonh wrote:
Bacho wrote:
The last 3 of the HIN are 878, black pylons.


This would indicate a 1978 Hull.

http://www.hobiecat.com/support/article ... erial.html

Note, Matt: We have an '85 with Tidal Wave sails and that light color hull which was described to me by a friend as "champagne" as he recalled the option from ordering an H14 with Tidal Wave new back in the day.



But then the boat would not have black castings, tramp frame. The original sails work with an 87 model as well.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:14 pm 
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jonh wrote:
Bacho wrote:
The last 3 of the HIN are 878, black pylons.


This would indicate a 1978 Hull.

http://www.hobiecat.com/support/article ... erial.html

Note, Matt: We have an '85 with Tidal Wave sails and that light color hull which was described to me by a friend as "champagne" as he recalled the option from ordering an H14 with Tidal Wave new back in the day.

Champagne was the color I was thinking of - just couldn't remember the name.

And Bacho's right - a '70s boat would not have 878 as the last three characters.

"878" might even be "87B" in the poor handwriting of the engraving tool.


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