Posted By: bloboater new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/09/07 10:38 AM
hey i'm brand new here......just thought i'd say howdy. I've had several hobie 16's and 18's over the years.....now i'm playin with an older p-cat...anyone else out there got one?
Posted By: calcheck Re: new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/11/07 06:55 PM
Do you Mean Pacific cat or Prindle- I have sailed Pacific in the 70's and a little Prindle since '04.
Posted By: BobG Re: new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/11/07 11:41 PM
"Pacific no Prindle no I mean Pacific ,Prindle". EeeYaaaaaaa!(as you are launched off a Bridge in Monty python Movie scene with troll)Sorry this is just filler t'll we find out real answer. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: calcheck Re: new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/15/07 03:12 PM
Pacific is a 60's version with fiberglass "unibody" that includes both hulls and the seating in between. Huge Aluminum daggerboards, no trampoline. Prindles were made after the hobie 16 came out so they have a trampoline- 20 years newer design.
John
Posted By: BobG Re: new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/16/07 02:22 AM
Then answer me this weary traveler ? What....is.... the ....standard......velocity ...... of......a P-18 versus a PacificCat with 328lb crew in 15knots of wind and a 3ft chop on a beam reach in August??? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> (I knew that. we are however waiting as to what boat the poster is interested in)....................
Posted By: bloboater Re: new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/16/07 11:01 PM
yes it is a pacific cat 18.....sorry for the lag....working long hours...mine is a 1972 vintage....never saw a cat with a fiberglass **** so i had to have it. Sails really well for an old boat.
Posted By: calcheck Re: new to forum....any p-cat 18 sailors out there - 06/18/07 02:48 PM
Yes it has 267.5 square feet of sail and if you get any power out of that it will go fine. Spent many hours sailing while in high school- We wet sailed ours and is was good and watertight just had to pump out water if it rained -leak topside somewhere we never found- we sailed it for 5 years and never changed a thing- never broke anything- my brother took it out and capsized it and lost the crank for the main- but that was easily replaced. Then one day we saw another cat- a brand new Hobie 16 and is sailed rings around us. We did have to finish the wooden roller reffing piece on the jib and the rudder handles annually.
John