I have read your website many times before- you built a beautiful boat!

There is an abandoned H14Turbo near my boat on the beach, and I might be able to get a new mast and mainsail from a friend (who got them for free!). I don't expect the Hobie to last very long though, and truth be told I'm not fond of such a low-bouyancy, pitchpole-prone design with so many joints in the pedastal that the boat cannot remain stiff.

I currently sail a G-Cat, which is also a 3-beam design. I wonder if the Quattro could survive as a two-beam boat, especially if unirigged with a very high bridle. I plan on using Prindle 16 beams from a demolished boat further down the beach which is slowly becoming a new dune.

I would also like to cant the hulls so that the leeward hull is verticle when the windward hull is just out of the water, and perhaps modify the deck ahead of the mast beam for greater bouyancy, with a V'ed shape to reduce the risk of a pitchpole.

Basically, I want something to experiment with


G-Cat 5.7M #583 (sail # currently 100) in Bradenton, FL Hobie 14T