Well for my birthday (last Friday) I split the cost of the Spring Creek stabilizers with my folks. I guess the parents did not approve of my awesome double-wipeout
New thread will be started when I put them on and get sailing again.
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| Author: | Jcanracer [ Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sailing the Revo11 without sidekicks |
Well for my birthday (last Friday) I split the cost of the Spring Creek stabilizers with my folks. I guess the parents did not approve of my awesome double-wipeout New thread will be started when I put them on and get sailing again. |
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| Author: | Revo_1756 [ Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sailing the Revo11 without sidekicks |
Happy Belated Birthday! Sounds like a nice B'Day present too. I cannot wait to see them and sail along with you again. May have to be later in June. I do not know if I will get out again before Holiday. I am hoping to and will keep an eye out for the next trip planned to NBB. Spring Creek has one heck of a sailing kit too with sail, stabilizers and lee boards. http://store.springcreek.com/Sail-Kits/ ... p1553.html Revo |
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| Author: | Jcanracer [ Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sailing the Revo11 without sidekicks |
After I put on the stabilizers, I will be out on NBB any weekend its too rough/windy to fish offshore. Those will be my sailing days. |
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| Author: | DoctorBuzz [ Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sailing the Revo11 without sidekicks |
Jcanracer wrote: So, I have become a victim of my own hubris. It was my belief that I could sail my Revo11 without amas. For calm weather, that's actually true. For winds 15 knots and over, well... you be the judge: http://youtu.be/NVRbX3T2NQA Edit: sorry the video is long because I didn't do much editing. Sail unfurls at 1:34 and the flip happens sometime after the 8 minute mark. Which came first in the video.... the choreography or the music? They're timed so perfectly together!! 10 outta 10. Would watch again!  I was actually thinking of buying a used 2016 Revo 11 that someone is selling locally for a pretty good deal... even tho I've been waiting for a Revo 13 and just haven't found one yet. But then I started to wonder how the Vantage seats really affect sailing. Has anyone noticed a tippier ride in the Pre- and Post-2015 Hobies?? Anyway... glad I still haven't hopped on the Hobie bandwagon yet, because my #1 fear has just become so very real... that I'll buy one and they'll make some super awesome upgrade that makes all prior Hobies obsolete. I mentioned before on here that the seats were terrible, and then they put the Vantage seats in the next year's model, along with half a dozen other awesome changes. And two years later, they're adding reverse!! Now there isn't one single drawback to a Hobie kayak, other than the price. Hopefully the recent competition will help with that last part. Perhaps Hobie can just leave well enough alone and make a cheaper product?? The 2015 and 2017 upgrades really did destroy the resale value of prior Hobie kayaks, IMHO. These upgrades are just so good that I couldn't possibly live with myself knowing that such major flaws have finally been corrected. I mean.... I'll pay like $1200 for a 2016 or earlier Hobie kayak now, but not much more. 
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| Author: | HStrech [ Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sailing the Revo11 without sidekicks |
No stability lost with the vantage seat in the low position. In the high position, it's minimal. |
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