[djodenda]

My family had a Hobie 16 when I was a teenager. My father rigged an "Easy Righter" system on it. What it did was allow you to temporarily lengthen one of the shrouds in the event of a capsize.

This made it easy for even a scrawny 120 pound person to right the boat.

I used to be able to fly hulls on it consistently in about 10 knots of wind. I remember once coming up from behind on a couple of teenage girls in a paddleboat. I lifted the hull right before I got to them and flew right over them.

I was impressed with myself.

They weren't.

I got a Hobie Wave last summer for my 11 and 14 year old kids. Fun, but not the same....

Thanks, also, for the memories!