Wave NAs.

Just got my CS magazine and noticed some of the Waves have hiking sticks some don't, wuz wondering why?

Made it legal last year. Makes it easier for the shorter people to get forward like the taller people. Everyone seems to really like the addition, and its class legal in both Wave racing classes.

So now that the hiking sticks are legal and were used in a major event what is the consensus on their use on Waves? In the latest paper Catsailor you can see the crazy body positions used to sail the boat without one. I know the truebloods will not use one but how about the youngsters (50-60)?

I don't think so, most of the 'truebloods' I know had it. I only saw a few boats at PIB that didn't and everyone I have raced against at HCA events had it done. I like it alot better, but my son LOVES it since he can move all the way up on front now.

What's the difference between the two classes.

Amongst the Wave racers, what is the split between the two rudder casting designs, the old Hobie 18 vs the new EZ Loc? Do ANY of the racers use the new design?

It's easy to add a tiller extension to the Hobie 18 rudder system. However, the EZ Loc does not lend itself to an extension, given that when the rudders are up the crossbar is way up in the air. I've seen some innovative designs over on the Wave forum. Were there any new solutions to the EZ Loc tiller extension yoke problem? (That is, if any EZ Locs were raced.)


Design credit to IndyWave

Instead of a tiller extension that gets in the way with the old style rudders, I simply use small line attached to each rudder bar allowing the loop to reach to the front beam. I can get up on the beam downwind and have great steering control. The line is a few cents, instead of a hundred plus dollars, and weighs nothing, and it works very well.
Won the North Coast with that set up.
Rick

true soap-box racing there

Kind of like this?
Call me old fashion but I like to hold a tiller.


If I rigged a wheel like this on my Wave I'd be just like Jimmy on his AC72!

I'm pretty sure some sort of string steering and the whip staff go back a long, long ways.

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