Gee, you are truly a Hobie sailor aren't you ?

As someone with engineering experience I know that it generally believed to be wise to avoid such mistakes in the design phase rather then aftermarket "a 10 kg solution 8 years later". So much for "well made" and "fast" I say.

Incidently, I have yet to fail righting my F16. When it finally does happen when I'm 70 years old and shrunk I'll send Hobie a formal appology and praise their foresightedness of making "righting cranks" mandatory even for tall and fit 35 year olds.

At the same time I'll send those Viagra spammers an appology as well.

Till that time, I'll just do it the obvious way.

Selecting a model that allows me to get it up without significant effort !

Oh Yeah !

Wouter