"Go A-cats"? Wouter, check first with Dazz on the righting poles for A-cats.

Dazz, could be that the FX is the first boat that Hobie designed that might have truly needed a righting pole...while we snark away.

Arnie was an Austrian first, IIRC, Erice. Plus it wasn't real, it was mooovies.

As a someone with some engineering experience, Wouter, you should at least respect a well-thought-out, well-made, fast solution to a problem that turns a mountain of a difficulty into a no-worries molehill.

These righting systems sure beat drifting along on top of your F16, complaining about how you used to be able to right it.

And I call bogus, if this leads you into one of those old, tired discussions about your weight versus your boat...

IMHO, the actual best question here is: No matter the boat, are these righting pole systems simple enough to install and use to justify them?