Up until recently I think I may have had one of the oldest hobie 16 to still be sailing. It has no evidence of hull numbers, but has the number 643 on the pylons.

Unfortunately due to an incident last year I now am the proud owner of two halves of a hobie cat as the pylons on the port side broke (untold years of corrosion) and the port hull parted company from the rest of the boat.

Luckily this occured a mere 200 metres from the boat ramp, but it was still slighly embarrasing given the number of spectators and was potentially much more serious had I been further out to sea at the time.

Oddly enough I have been unable to locate a broken Hobie 14 mast to donate mast section for new pylons, so I am getting new ones made by some engineers and will attempt to glass them in.

Anybody have any suggestions?

May not be entirely class legal but she will sail again...