I went through this topic last season on forum so now starting to feel like a broken record.
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<br>It’s been over a year now and STILL my Tiger has a solid mast and I’m willing to bet that that it would be very difficult to find a Tiger with a Comptip in the North America. If you want a Comptip, I think you can order one through your dealer. In fact my dealer has many full aluminum section Tiger masts.
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<br>Here, Look at this: IHCA class rule:
<br>13.4 A COMPTIP shall be mandatory for the North American Region with the exception of the Hobie Tiger, which shall be raced worldwide with an aluminum mast.
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<br>I didn’t make this rule… but I did vote in favor of it because I wanted a spinnaker boat in the NAHCA with out a comptip…. And go figure, a few months latter, I singed the check and now I have a Tiger with a full aluminum mast. The key issue is to work through the dealers and not the company. After all, that is who your doing business with.
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<br>It’s really frustrating; The NAHCA sailor asked for this boat… we even put the rule in writing… Now that the boat is here, in the configuration we wanted,, the sailors (NAHCA) are slow to respond… go figure??? So the way I see it… I can’t blame company anymore.
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<br>The next question people usually ask is “why isn’t this possible with the Fox?”… This topic was also beat to death last fall…. I don’t know and I don’t really care.
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