Thank you for posting this video. I got my mast up safely in a minimal amount of time. Your solution is obvious once you see it, but before I saw it, I could not figure out a good way to do it. Thanks!
You can tie a rope to the front mast cradle bar on trailer and using a locking strap, wrap it around the mast to hold it up while you attach the forstay.
Im thinking about getting a Hobie 16, looks like a lot to learn just in setting one of these sail boats up, let alone learning to sail one !!!! maybe ill just buy a ski boat!!!! LOL
Thank you for posting this video. I got my mast up safely in a minimal amount of time. Your solution is obvious once you see it, but before I saw it, I could not figure out a good way to do it. Thanks!
Just acquired an old hobie and these are great directions. There are a few variants out there, hard to find old stuff.
Matt, this is very helpful. I'm just learning to sail a Hobie 16 and this was a good video for learning.
You can tie a rope to the front mast cradle bar on trailer and using a locking strap, wrap it around the mast to hold it up while you attach the forstay.
This video is great! I would love to see the take-down, too. In particular, what he does to set the wires in their hold down.
i wish they would remake this video the picture quality is really degraded
Mosby's men This is a pretty good one: ua-cam.com/video/Tb-Tgb1pM24/v-deo.html
I don't understand exactly how he is rigging the halyard while stepping the mast. How does he release the tension?
tiller prop moves the rudders to steer.
A great set up made mine 10 times faster on all points.of set up thanks.bob
Im thinking about getting a Hobie 16, looks like a lot to learn just in setting one of these sail boats up, let alone learning to sail one !!!! maybe ill just buy a ski boat!!!! LOL
Seth Poorman it’s really not that hard if you watch video’s like this everything will be fine!!!