MBounds wrote:
The mast rotation stops are what they are. If you cut them back for downwind performance, then you sacrifice upwind performance.
It's part of the simplicity of the Hobie 16. It's not 100% optimal, but since everyone has the same problem - it's not a problem.
Ok. Understood and agreed.
But our mast doest rotate full when heading upwind most of the time (I think its because the place we sail is not windy on average). So it would not make a difference in the upwind, only on downwind... what you think?
Another thing that made me curious: our mast base has a stainless steel plate attached to the frontal part of the base and it envolves it (apparently) protecting where the mast stops contact the limiter. I do not see this attachment in any new HC16 mast base. Did you already have seen this?
Rodolpho