Hey mate

When yiou say sail in severe weather how much wind are we talking about?? I have a feeling you might just pull off putting a 14 mast on the 16 beams it might just take some ..............improvising Look at the difference between the cup size of the hobie 16 mast base and if you can swap them around yay but if you cant well this is what you could try. Take the mast bass to someone who can weld and ask them to add extra mettal in and well then you have you mast base. Just a thought!!