It’s hard to tell, but I’ll do some poking around today.

The original hardware was drilled into the wood over the panel and sealed. The rudder had a pin that went through the mount and it’s own hardware. That pin likely bounced out and torqued the whole piece off.

Thank you for the advice!

Thank you sbv!

I wish I could tell you.

My best guess is that the pin bounced out when i was trying to help my wife uncleat the jib and the pressure just ripped the rudder right off. It was just a perfect storm of a large wind gust, waves, and a hardware failure

That’s a good question. I’m pretty sure I can, those I might try to fit a different style since the original set up wasn’t great

If you were me, would you try to use the same wood that’s there or replace the whole structure?

Lol that’s the first time ive seen that

This happened mid sail, but we were fortunate enough to get a tow back to the dock and on a lift

I’m glad it was this and not the mast

No orcas but maybe some very aggressive large mouth bass lol.

Glad to hear it might be repairable though. I spend god knows how long last month repairing hairline cracks in the hull, I’d at least like to do some sailing this season

Not yet, but I have a plan to release coverage in the future. If you put a deposit down now I’ll give it to you sometime I determine in the future

I have a quintuple-A bridge I’d like to sell this guy

We ended up bringing a tent. The mosquitoes are bad where I am so sleeping in the cockpit would’ve been rough lol.

How big is your Hobie? There’s a 16ft that goes out into the Apostles on YouTube and it looks like a blast.

Good luck on your trip!

Slow and doggy, but I’m thinking thats more to do with the wind the the gear. We only had about 3 kts. Its going to be more like 6 with gusts up to 15 so it should be a bit better providing we don’t get stuck in the 28kt gusts predicted for Sunday afternoon.

I’m estimating around 250, but I could be off. There’s about 5 gallons of gas and a small 5hp outboard that’s making up the bulk of that weight missing from this picture.

Very cool.

I wonder what the maintenance is like on one of these.