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Performance Race Week 2003 combined with Formula 18s prove a successful North American Championship
Performance Catamarans, the builders of NACRA, Prindle and Inter catamarans invited the Formula 18 class to join their 2003 Performance North American Championships held in Pensacola Florida October 13th through 16th. Monday morning the skies were gray with a light NE at 5-10 knots. The Race Committee set up a "Course 2" and the racing got underway by 11:00 am. Then the wind started to. Only seven of the Inter 20 teams to complete the course before the time limit expired.
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This article will explain the step-by-step method of repairing soft spots in your beach catamaran hulls. This technique uses the method of injecting thickened epoxy into a catamaran hull using a syringe.
This method is well suited to repairing soft spots in catamaran hulls. The soft spots can be found by pressing carefully with your fingers on the hull. Usually they are on the top or upper side of a hull. When you apply pressure
to a soft spot, the area will detent slightly and even give a "squish" sound.
The soft area can be a few square inches or entire areas of a hull.
Note: This catamaran repair article first appeared in On The Wire in December 1998 issue. It still works, and every year there are more beach catamarans that need help. If you have done this repair on your catamaran, please comment.
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The Alter Cup Committee has accepted a proposal from the Hobie Cat Company to provide boats for the 2004 and the 2005 US SAILING Multihull Championship regattas for the Hobie Alter Cup. The 2004 event will tentatively be hosted in June of 2004 in the Long Island Sound area, and sailed on the Hobie 16. The 2005 event will be sailed in April or May 2005 in Southern California on the Hobie Tiger.
2003 Qualifying and ladder events throughout the US are mostly complete, and a roster of teams that will be invited to compete in the 2004 Hobie Alter Cup will be finalized in January 2004. The list of qualified teams will be posted on the Alter Cup website at www.ussailing.org/alter. A schedule of 2004 qualifying events for the 2005 Hobie Alter Cup in California will be posted on the website in the early spring 2004. Note: I had to delay publishing this because it was submitted anonymously, please login before submitting news and articles. Thanks to the Alter Cup Chairman, John Williams, for verifying that he wrote this. Also thanks to Hobie Cat Company for supporting catamaran sailing like this.
Read full article: 'Hobie Backs the Hobie Alter Cup in 2004, 2005' (108 more words)
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