Andrei: I'm certain that your (and likely all) Hobie 16s have foam in the deck and sidewalls of the hull, but not the keel.
All: If interested, check out the 1981 Hobie 16 hull construction (destruction is more like it) pix I just uploaded to www.thebeachcats.com...Catamaram Pictures...Beachcats Technical...Inside The Hobie 16. Jerome Vaughan Hobie 16 "RATTLE 'N HUM" Clinton, Mississippi --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "apsoft4u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a couple of hours of sailing my recently purchased H16 with my > son I mentioned that we need to check if there is water in the > hulls. He looked inside through the drain holes in transoms and said > that there is no water. I doubted he could see anything at first but > then found that my yellow hulls are so transparent for sun light > that I can see everything inside. > I've read that Hobie ompany has changed the H16 hull construction > process in 1983 moving from bare fiberglass hulls to fiberglass- foam > sandwich. True? > How much excessive weight do I have in such hulls? > What's good/bad about them? > > Andrei > H14T, H16 Group Home http://www.TheBeachcats.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beachcats/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
