Hi all,
I normally sail a Hurricane 5.9sx (a development of the International Tornado) in North Wales, UK.
As a winter project I am going to spruce up and modernise a Hobie 17 with new sails (square top main and battened jib), standing and running rigging, better downhaul and never ending loops of line fed to both sides etc. Not to compete with, just for fun :-)
So for my question, has anyone ever successfully fitted a spinnaker to a Hobie with a Comptip mast (any as I believe these were fitted to several different Hobies over the years?) If so, how did you mount the halyard as the Comptip part of the mast is obviously not really up to the job.
Any advice is really appreciated.