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Anger Management

Posted By: NCSUtrey

Anger Management - 11/06/06 10:29 PM

Throughout the past few years, I've found that there are few better ways to vent frustration than to crush a hobie cat (I can think of few...but they aren't for this board <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />). I have become rather skilled at the art of hull crunching, crushing, dissecting, and destroying. Beams, masts, hulls, you name it, I've destroyed it. As Dan Berger will comment on, there are many ways to do destroy a hull. With some time, you can cut up a 16 hull with a sawzall and fit it into a 55 gallon trashcan for you garbage man to take away. Sometimes, nothing less than a nice bonfire will do to satisfy the destructive urge (not environmentally friendly though). Small handtools, such as a hatchet or axe, a hammer, and even a pipewrench and screwdriver can make quick work of the hulls as well. Here is a list of some of the methods one can take:

Sawzall
Chainsaw
Big pipewrench
Screwdriver
Hatchet/Axe
Cinder Block
Rebar
Any combination of the above.

Yesterday though, I discovered a much better way to not only destroy a hull (4 to be exact), but also to scratch my manly ego as well. Here is the recipe:

4 early 70's Hobie 14 hulls
Testosterone
2001 Chevrolet Tahoe
Goodyear tires
Gas
=
Destruction!

Yes, there is nothing more satisfying than driving your gas-guzzler over several hobie cats. It is almost as good as tying one end of the hull to a tree, and the other to your hitch (or a variation of this with the tree in the middle of the hull!). The crunch of the delaminated fiberglass is the sound of death for the hull, and flat she goes. Then, it is simply a matter of cutting the hull apart, which is much easier now that they've been crushed.
SO, next time you boss tells you to come in on Saturday, or the wife says one more thing about the ugly bathroom tile, or the professor doesn't curve that exam with a class average of 54...you know what to do. Get a trash hull, and have at it!
See pic

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Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 10:32 PM

And den....

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Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 10:34 PM

Uno mas (cerveza)...

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Posted By: hobie1616

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:04 PM

You're a sick young man. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: gree2056

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:04 PM

Please stop the horror, how can you all do this kind of thing. I understand that many of the old Hobies out there are in bad shape but is this really nesescary. I have a wonderful little 14 that had a few soft spots that were easily fixed. I would love to have some of these worn out hulls. I have friends that want to put together Hobies. I know that those hulls wouldn't handle racing but they would be a great starter boat for someone.
But please stop showing these hulls being destoyed!!!
Posted By: gree2056

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:05 PM

STOP THIS IS MAKING ME SICK!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: MauganN20

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:11 PM

I don't think Trey wants to be held liable for any injuries had anyone actually tried to sail using these hulls.
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:12 PM

If you'd like to buy them, I'm sure we could work out a price...until then...crushing continues.
Posted By: gree2056

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:16 PM

Okay, just so you know I think you are a very sick person. Those hulls had better be very soft!!!! I think NC is a little far for me to be buying hulls from. You should try one of the old viking burials. Pour lighter fluid all over them pill on a bunch of wood, shove them out to sea and then launch flaming arrows at them. What happens to all the hardwear off those hulls, that I might be interested in!
Posted By: MauganN20

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:18 PM

I once gave a windspeed 15 a viking funeral.
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/06/06 11:20 PM

It pretty much comes down to: "What do you need?"
Posted By: BrianK

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:36 AM

More crushing!
Posted By: PTP

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:47 AM

WTF!!!!! So much for posts about getting kids and entry level sailors involved in cat sailing! You can't tell me that someone would not have used those cats. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
(the legal question can be the only legitimate reason to trash them, thanks to the lawyers)
Posted By: Robi

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:48 AM

ahhahahah! great post +10 on comedic value hhahahahah
Posted By: bvining

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:52 AM

one redneck + hobie14 + beer + Chevy = stupid thread
Posted By: MauganN20

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:52 AM

Trey is a businessman of a calibre that is very rare in someone his age. He's got an uncanny ability to determine what is sellable and what is not. I've seen him drag some sunfish out from under backyard sheds, spend a day cleaning them up and then sell them for money that would make you drop your jaw.

Now if he thought he could make some cash out of these, I'm sure he'd sell them. Unforunately, and I've seen some of these boats first hand, they get so soft that they are unable to be safely sailed in any condition.

I disagree that this is a stupid thread.

And rednecks are underappreciated, especially by stuck up yankees :P

Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:56 AM

I would never trash a salvageable hull.

Oh yeah, I'm not a redneck, I'm an artist.
Posted By: PTP

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:57 AM

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Trey is a businessman of a calibre that is very rare in someone his age. He's got an uncanny ability to determine what is sellable and what is not. I've seen him drag some sunfish out from under backyard sheds, spend a day cleaning them up and then sell them for money that would make you drop your jaw.

Now if he thought he could make some cash out of these, I'm sure he'd sell them. Unforunately, and I've seen some of these boats first hand, they get so soft that they are unable to be safely sailed in any condition.


point taken, still sad though don't ya think?
Posted By: MauganN20

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 12:59 AM

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point taken, still sad though don't ya think?


Sad that Trey had to put down these boats in the same sense as a vet has to put down a lame horse. He has to end the sufferin!
Posted By: Robi

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 01:24 AM

This is absolute GENIUS! I would whole-heartedly say Trey is a pioneer and in the forefront of boat entrepreneurship.
Posted By: hobie1616

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 02:28 AM

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Oh yeah, I'm not a redneck, I'm an artist.
You should have made full size half models out of them.

http://www.tridentstudio.com/models/0-b.html
Posted By: RyanMcHale

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 02:49 AM

If anybody in Northern California/Southern Oregon has a H-14 or H-16 they need disposed of please let me know, I want to make Wall Art out of them!!!!
Posted By: AlanOSauras

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 04:35 AM

Hahahahahaha, hey Trey, remember that time I got up on that hobie 16 and fell straight through the tramp. Where is the picture of that anyways?!?!

Love the carnage wish I had seen it first hand. Also, I can definately contest that I could spit on these hulls and hear that crunchy sound. There was no saving these old softies. Trust me capitain cat salvage and friends, you didn't want these hulls.
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 04:46 AM

Wow, who is this Alan kid? Tad, have you seen him around before? Maybe Derek knows who he is. He always pretends like he knows me...
Posted By: AlanOSauras

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 05:40 AM

For someone who cain't tie a square knot to save his life, you got some nerve talk'n about YOUR CREW like that. I take it all back, you dirty hobie killer.
Posted By: BrianK

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 02:02 PM

Mo cruushing please! Us readneks love crusshing!
Posted By: drbinkle

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 02:08 PM

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Wow, who is this Alan kid? Tad, have you seen him around before? Maybe Derek knows who he is. He always pretends like he knows me...

I've heard about this Alan that you speak of. Maybe sometime he will get on a sailboat or go to a regatta again and we will find out if he can still sail.
Posted By: Dan_Delave

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 08:40 PM

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[color:"red"] Mo cruushing please! Us readneks love crusshing![/color]


[color:"green"]Brian:
[color:"blue"]A[color:"orange"]R[color:"brown"]T[color:"red"]![color:"gray"] Didn't you hear him say he was an artist?

Dan [/color]
Posted By: NACRADUDE

Re: Anger Management - 11/07/06 09:51 PM

Never seen a Hobie I didn't want to crush. That's almost a blessing.
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 01:38 AM

Yeah, I am an artist BK. I love concrete yard art and the like...
Posted By: dave mosley

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 01:56 AM

Trey, have you seen the bar they make from those hulls? I think Sandy Hook has one, pretty cool, use the flat side, its rounded(ye ol' banana shape) and seems to be big enough for a slew of rednecks and thier PBR's. You could probably sell them for that purpose w/o litigation issues...
BTW The guy with the ornge 16 wants to sell now, call me if you still want it.
Posted By: basket.case

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 02:02 AM

there is no art in cutting up boats

To continue the art project, after spending this winter in the Caribbean, DANGEROUS WHEN WET will be cut into two and exhibited half in an art gallery in New York with the other half a touring exhibit, starting at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

http://www.aureliaditton.com/arcnews.php?NewsID=59
Posted By: Brian_Mc

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:57 AM

No you Tube here. Probably some arial video footage coming soon to Adventureonline.TV. "Artist at Work" taken with RC airplane by unknown pilot...Hard for this Boston boy to accept, but just found out I'm descended from rednecks! "Redneck": name given Scot's Irish during the time of the American revolution for the red scarves worn around their necks. I may have to buy me a truck...
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 03:53 PM

On another note, Tad and I are having a "comptip extraction party" later this week. Maybe we'll get Alan to film it, or are you pansies against destruction of masts too? Let me guess, half of you are PETA members?
Posted By: hobie1616

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:03 PM

Will it be like a tractor pull contest?
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:05 PM

I haven't done one before, but Tad has. It comprised of Tad's Isuzu Trooper, a hitch, a big pine tree (the same tree the hobies get crushed on), and some good line. Try to picture it....
Posted By: Mary

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:06 PM

WHY are you extracting comptips?
Posted By: hobie1616

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:08 PM

Because they can?
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:11 PM

Because the lower section of the mast (below the spreaders) is damaged. I'm removing the comptip to put on another mast This is for an 18sx, so the lower portion is longer than a standard 18 mast. I have a solid aluminum 18 mast that I can cut down to add the comptip to which will still allow me to run the 18sx sail. The 18sx is my beach boat (of course it has an F18 spinnaker).
Posted By: MauganN20

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:12 PM

Because usually they are busted and the extrusion is still good. Therefore, remove busted comptip and put in good one.... yachtzee!
Posted By: Mary

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:24 PM

Wow, I wish I could be there to see the extraction. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Sort of makes me think about my childhood, putting a string around my loose tooth and tying the other end to the door knob.

Isn't there an easier way to get the comptip off than doing a tractorpull?

Once you get the comptip off, what do you do with it?

I want the story and pictures, along with the other demolition stuff.
Posted By: NCSUtrey

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:38 PM

I think we can arrange some footage for you, whaddaya say Tad? Is film crew Alan around?
Posted By: MauganN20

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:46 PM

Yeah man, it'll be fun. Although there might be traction issues with all the rain we've had lately. Time for some 4-low therapy!
Posted By: pbisesi

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:51 PM

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A little heat with a propane torch to the aluminum section of the mast while under load of a truck and a tree while tapping with a rubber mallet helps release the comptip.
It's fun when the let go all at once. POP!
Posted By: _flatlander_

Re: Anger Management - 11/08/06 04:59 PM

At this years 18/20 Nationals. During the first or second day of racing, the comptip broke on the borrowed (doh!) mast of Brent Ellis and Clint Pecks 18.

Brent and Clint paid homage by sacrificing the broken unit to "the comp-tip god" at Wednesday nights beach bon-fire, praying for no more expensive mishaps for the remainder of the event.
Posted By: Chris9

Re: Anger Management - 11/09/06 01:16 PM

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=7734458685709802486
Posted By: waterbug_wpb

Re: Anger Management - 11/09/06 06:11 PM

Anyone got a "dead" hull (or part of a hull) near Naples, FL? I would like to practice some gelcoat techniques if I ever get spare time...

1/2 of a H-16 hull should do it....
Posted By: OConnor

Re: Anger Management - 11/10/06 04:55 AM

Rochester Bar going together

http://www.fleet295.com/regatta/rohr06/gallery/RHOR_2006_006_a_jpg.htm
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