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Joined: Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:38 pm Posts: 10 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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I've been going through and fixing up a used Hobie 16 that I acquired late this Spring. Not all of the parts are original and I've had to do some swapping around to get boat useable.
I took the boat offshore on July 4th (with a tropical storm offshore) as kind of a shake down trip. Apparently I beat the hell out of the boat. It was a great day of sailing till the bow shackle between bridles and forward chainplate broke. The mast dropped, we capsized boat, lengthened shroud with a piece of para cord, wired the bridles to the chain plate, righted and returned shroud. I went to order a replacement part when I noticed that the part appeared to be a 1/4" shackle and chainplate. There is clearly a 3/16" hole size 10-hole chainplate on boat.
The boat is a 1982. Anyone know if Hobie used a 3/16 pin or a 1/4 pin back then?
P.S. I don't think that the failure was from the lack of a 1/16" of stainless but rather the 1982 vintage of the part and tough conditions.
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