Righting a capsized catamaran (Hobie Cat speed)

[laserlongboards]

Good luck dry rolling

[MrKloppenburg]

I righted my dart 16 by myself and my weight's just 61 kg. Good technique is everything. And patience... sitting on the very front of the hull to turn the cat into the wind. The wind will blow under the sails and help lift it up. I had to plank just above the water and climb into the rope to stay just above the water to get the leverage to right it... tiring but it worked ;p

A Hobie 16 is a light cat as well. I guess I could right it on my own. It should be an easy job for two people.

[nvanl]

Cool video

i sailed hobie 16 in holland with gennaker

what is the name of the song ?

[uschdog]

My question is: How do you avoid tearing a hole in the main when you fall on it?

[alexie28]

@uschdog you can't really, unless you fall flat. The best idea is to not fall on it in the first place - as soon as you know the boat is going over, un-hook and dive off the back.

[MrKloppenburg]

@alexie28 Actually, don't dive, just jump into the water. There's a bunch of ropes under water that could turn a challenge into a nasty struggle.

Also, you want to grab the boat asap, with a good wind it can drift away faster than you could swim. Diving costs more time and possibly orientation.

Next thing I do is unhook the main to prevent it from catching too much wind once the boat's righted, sorta like 2:45. The guy's doing a great job at keeping it down tho :-)

[kitedili]

yes, that's the official hobie sail.

[dumon13]

how many battens are on that sail? is that the official hobie sail, oh, and thanks for the video, very instructive

[Slocketman]

@dumon13 full length battens all the way up the sail, probably like 6-10 or something

[pete44443]

release the main when you capsized if your just crusing it makes it hell of a lot easier to get back on track

[zkenzo]

Try righting a turtled cat w/mim ( mast in mud)---a real nightmare!

[GBAhunter]

yeah that would suck, thats why you gotta get a mast float lol..

[sailphi]

what was your combined crew weight?

[kitedili]

not sure, probably 150 to 160 kg.

[sailphi]

thanks, we used to do it that way, but we have changed our technique.

[kitedili]

take the wind into consideration, They had a good help from it blowing under the jib...

[sailphi]

Absolutely. we have actually started cleating the jib. the wind inverts it, so water doesnt accumulate in it. The help of the jib makes a big difference.

[zkenzo]

How about righting a turtled cat--

[sailphi]

Put all your combined weight as far back near the leeward rudders as you can. the windward bow will rise, will catch the wind, and the boat will come up with the top of the mast pointing into the wind.

Then move all the crew weight to the bow. the boat will start to clock into the wind. When the FORESTAY is PERPENDICULAR to the wind, use the righting line.

[zkenzo]

Nice tip, but single handed & somewhat weak, a tough proposition for me.

[SolarWind19]

my question , how do you get the righting line OVER the hull when she is on her side? its impossible to reach ?whats the method in getting the righting line ?

[Verloren]

The way I learned it was the righting line was tied in/looped around the lines holding the tramp together. After capsize, you take it out and throw it over the top hull.

[CusterFlux]

Have a long line, get a fair bit of slack, and just toss it up between the hull and the tramp, behind the forward post, eventually it'll fall over allowing you to grab it - takes some practice, but if you're sailing Hobie's a lot, and really pushing it, practice you'll get.

[sailphi]

The truth is, if you have a harness, you dont need to.

Just take the line from near the mast, thru your harness hook, thru the dolphin striker, back to the hook. you can lean out with a straigh back, no problem. if your crew is really light, he/she, can lean on your trapeze spreader bar, or even stand on it, and you wont feel their weight.

i need to do a vid of this.

[sailafeva]

@sailphi I wouldnt recomend that because if the boat acidently sails off for any reason your atached to it.

[sailphi]

If the boat starts sailing off, you damn well better be attached to it!

:-)

[PrettyGetGoing]

@sailphi haha!! that almost happened to me the other day ! My boyfriend almost left me in the middle of the sea. But if you release the main sail that's not suppose to happen. ;)

[WideSplit]

Treacherous Hobie Cat but so much fun to ride! Great video guys!

[nickolastd21]

i just pitchpoled my hobie 14 turbo 3 hours ago and broke the mast of, but it was a force 6 and on a close reach, the landing took the wind out of me, 50 min later after some time towing we got it ashore and will fix well(i hope)

[PorkyPiggles]

Might be a good idea to pull in the jib(front sail) and let the sheet loose before up righting. That way the wind try and snatch it from you and don't let go of the ropes until you're back onboard or you might see your cat sail off without you.

Nice video

[curlcurllocal]

I imagine you get pretty good at this after a while, I did it 4 times this morning.

[killdac]

i thought those things were hard to right you make it look all to easy

[sgtpepperoni]

this is a damn good video

[rfarson77]

pretty good righting video

[dutch803]

Thanks for a great video, I needed to learn some decent tips for righting my prindle 19, keep on practicing....

[penghuwindsurfer]

Nice speed. You guys seemed have lots of fun.