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.
lol!
But, hey, it's not that you have yet to fail righting your F16, it's that 20 to 30 minutes of fighting to get it back up, eh? Quicker with a righting pole?
I repeat though: No matter the boat, these righting pole systems,
are they simple enough to install and simple enough to use to justify them?I say this because I am getting somewhat irked by the probs that arise
after these "new, labor-saving" devices get installed. I got no gripes with the righting pole setup I got at this point.
However, I was looking at my trailer couple days ago and noticed that the galvanized uprights holding the rollers had a sneaky raised extension that could rip a nice hole in the hull if the boat got pulled off the trailer at the wrong angle.
I am thinking, what genius designed this setup? And off came the roller assemblies and now I have to hunt/beg/whine/search for a setup to attach my new used cradles that I had to hunt/beg/whine/search for... @#%$^^*.
And like a good ol Southern Redneck, I am going to do my version of "going green" when I am done. Going to go out the backdoor and throw all four of the roller assemblies down into the deep, green WOODS!