Boom Vang

Is the H-14 supposed to have a boom vang because it looks like it hooks at the bottom of the mast and goes to the center of the boom. mine doesn not have one, but looks like there is a hook up for it and was wondering if there was supposed to be one


Mark
H-14

Boom Vangs are not commonly used, so you can disregard the old fittings.

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That hole at the bottom of the mast is actually for stepping the mast.

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I have a boom vang. Its the only way I can make that fat old girl go down wind faster than the other boats.

So Chris, what do you do about the fat old man that's on the boat?

I started getting Diet Pepsi every time I order a Large Super Supreme at Pizza Hut. Plus, I've cut down to 1/2 a box a Ho-Ho's per day.
I think that will help.
The old thing, I can't do anything about that. Turn 40 tomorro, on the way to Oklahoma for the race there. What did you do when you hit 60 Matt?

Where do you attach the boom vang?

You have the same philosophy I do: Diet Coke / Snickers bar offset each other. Also, if nobody sees you eat it, it has no calories.

On the 60 thing, I dunno. Ask me in 14 years.

I was going to OK until I figured out it was 1050 mile drive. Uh, no. I'm saving myself for MadCatter.

Madcatter will be fun. I am documenting our trip this weekend and hope to put a story together for you for Hotline. We're putting 6 boats on a snowmobile trailer, so it should be fun. Playing golf tomorro in the tornado in OK City with some of the div 14 guys.
14NAs has gotten bigger and bigger every day. We've added 9 Hobie 14s in Div 7 since we announced it. I am hoping we get in the mid 20s in numbers, wouldn't that be a blast??!!
cw

Boomvangs and diet pop couldn't help my slow self around the course. I couldn't get my 14 to tack if you would have had a shotgun to my head. I think I unlearned everything I knew before I got my 20. That boat turns on a dime, the 14 does not and I blew EVERY TACK during the entire regatta. I am going to have to practice alot. Once I got turned, up and down I was just as fast, maybe a bit faster than a few boats down, due to the high tech boomvang.

I'm gonna get mine out for the first time this coming weekend.

I'll have it stashed at the lake apartments I manage all summer long. Everytime I take is out, all I'm going to do is tack, tack, tack, tack.

It's weird that racing the little pigs comes down to who can tack fastest.

Yea, I was really pissed most of the time. I pointed higher than most everyone too, had clear advantage and rock star runs up to the first turn and the last thing I would hear is Wrinkely laughing hysterically as he went on by. I almost left the little boat in OK city along the road.

lol. You guys think you have it bad...coming from roll tacking monhulls 4+ days a week to the Hobie 14 is death...I can tack in flat seas all day long, but if its real light air or blowing hard (with 4+ ft seas), backwind it is for me!
Anyway, if I showed up at a regatta without a comptip and a non-legal tiller extension (aluminum, it does the same dang thing) would you protest me out?

Depends.....but I know where you can get a really really cheap BRAND NEW COMPTIP. contact me offlist [email protected] and I'll give you the guys name that has one still in the box for cheap.
I couldn't get the friggin' boat to come around even backwinding it. I don't know what I was doing wrong. I have not had this much trouble getting her to turn since I first got her 5 years ago.

Xanderwess:

When tacking a unit rig, you MUST let out about 2-3 feet on sheet as you go head to wind. When I first got my Hobie 17 I went into irons EVERY time a tried to tack. Try this, you need to let out even more is it is blowing hard. Try this i think it will help.

Doug Snell
Hobie 17
Sunfish
Soon to be Mystere 4.3
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