Hobie Cat sailing problem?
I have a hard time holding the rudder when I'm on a long reach. I mean, I am really bookin' across the water but the pressure on the rudders is so intense that I do not have the strength to hold on for more than a couple of minutes. Is this normal. It takes me two hands to hold onto the tiller.
What your experiencing is the side slippage of the boat on the rudder. If you're reaching with one of the pontoons out of the water that's probably the problem. The boat will actually move faster with both hulls in the water. When you start off reaching the sail is out quite a bit. As you gain speed you need to pull in the sail as your forward motion moves the apparent wind forward, but if you're consistently keeping one hull out of the water you need to let the sail back out a little or change your course direction to even more of a reach to gain speed and stop the boat from porpoising on the one remaining hull. Most cats trim up pretty good on a reach which is the fastest point of sail.
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