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Hobie Kayaks / Guide - Metal 180 MD Sprocket Installation
« on: March 23, 2024, 06:28:09 PM »
As part of our ongoing discussions on the 180-drive failing, here is my brief picture guide to replacing the sprockets. Not a fun task but the thing feels heavy and bulletproof now but only time will tell.

Item from amazon seller Fever SG: https://a.co/d/8EGM4OB

Item feels CNC'd really nicely, maybe some sharp edges but none where shifter coords need to touch.

1. Take off chains and idler cables. I also am running this store’s red cables which are working great, just don’t over tighten them or the red sheathing will rub off.

2. Remove back cone, store rollers. I am running the Goss Etsy store ceramic bearings/Mod2 which makes this end really easy to deal with, these back rollers seem to be the first failure in spines as grit can get trapped back there when running into sand or debris, so highly recommend this mod, Hobie-wan has had his for a year and it's still going strong.

3. Unscrew the middle portion of the spine (pic 1) which will release the front sprocket as well. Store both sets of roller bearings from the middle and the shorter set in the front. Disassembled spine in pic 2 and 3.

4. To remove the old sprockets you need to remove the fin assembly from them. To do this rotate your fins halfway so that the little pin is exposed (pic 4). Move the shifting coords out of the way on both sides of the disc and punch that pin through, I was using a size 4 Allen bit and some pliers as a hammer (pic 5). The mast should slide out now (pic 6). I would focus on one sprocket at a time, but this step is the same for both sides.

5. Once the fin mast is out, the disc can be pushed/rocked out. Easiest when the flat notches are in line with the spine, once you have the disc out (pic 7), take note of the knot placement on the line, you will want to tie a figure 8 in that same placement for proper operation of the shifters (pic 8 ). This knot gets shoved back into the disc when putting everything back together.

6. Untie the knot and remove the old sprocket, take out the detent pin from the old sprocket and place in the new metal replacement (pic 9). Without this detent pin the discs will not hold the fins correctly. DO NOT THROW AWAY OLD SPROCKET WITHOUT REMOVING THIS PIN, SPRING, AND SCREW!

7. To put the sprockets back together, thread the line through and washers through the detent pin assembly, and out the disc area. Run cord through disc and tie the knot again, place the cables in their tracks and slide disc back into the sprocket. Place the fin mast back in, I had to push the disc into the detent pin to get the mast to line up correctly. Pin the mast but know that you may have the disc backwards and may need to pull this pin again, it might be best to just leave it unpinned. (refer to pics 4-9 again)

8. Once you have run your lines again, you can test the operation of the shifters and make sure everything is working properly (pic 10) don’t wait to have it assembled and notice that a disc is backwards  :smt010 (pic 14). This was an easy fix tho just flip the disc around on one side and it should operate correctly, no need to take the spine off again just some bearings to deal with if you have this same problem.

9. I recommend some grease to get the bearings to stay in their tracks while re-assembling (pic 11). I know that this grease may catch future grit so I will try to rinse it out, but it is needed to get the bearings to stay in place. This takes out a lot of headache when dealing with these damn roller bearings that are the dumbest part of these 180 drives. Front bearings first in pic 12 showing the washer and both sets of rollers staying in place with grease. Assemble this piece and screw it back into the drive (pic 1). Then do the rear sprocket and bearings (pic 13). You can see my Goss ceramic bearings here, these things are killer.

10. Once you have the spine re-attached, you can place chains then idler cables on and test function of the drive. Mine clicked a bit on the metal sprockets then worked great as the chains rested properly. Thing is heavy but works (pic 15), will test otw soon!



I hope this makes any future sprocket replacements easier for you folks, I had a hard time finding resources on the shifter cables, but they weren't crazy, you don't need to take them completely out and can leave them in place for the most part. Hobie will not replace any small parts of this spine so take care of that detent assembly in particular, Hobie receives these spines assembled and will not know what you are talking about when you can’t figure out something about the inner workings of the spine (ask me how I know). Lots of learning on this project and happy the nightmare is over!

Please let me know if I missed something or a step is unclear, I can update as needed.

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Gearing Up and Rigging Up / 250yds of dropper loops
« on: December 07, 2023, 04:50:53 PM »
I saw this commercial for an outfit selling dropper loops that came out of a roll for simple shrimp fly rigs, so I've decided to work on this during the winter months.

I usually have a couple pretied rigs of shrimp flys or a fly to a jig but I think this will be more organized and convenient.

Simple double uni to keep the loop perpendicular then through a dropper loop. There is sometimes an issue with line twist while I'm tying but I can usually get it to twist up  in the loop section and the rest of the line relaxes.

Cheap 50# green line, I wanted 40# but couldn't find it at the store. And this large empty spool that came with some 100lb mono. Might take me a while to tye this up but then ill be set for a while, as long as it doesn't get too tangled coming out!

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Gearing Up and Rigging Up / Building a custom SPJ rod
« on: March 16, 2023, 10:07:20 AM »
My buddy wanted to build some SPJ rods for a winter project and offered to help me put one together. I chose a 6'-6" moderate heavy rated for 200-350g jigs. (he is going for a smaller rockfish setup but I already have my goofish for that class jig)

My thinking was for tuna trips in SD, I was on a boat and I remember the captain calling out "fish down 200-ft" and I was just blindly sending a speed jig down and retrieving, but this setup will have metered line (on a 2001 ocea jigger) so I will be ready for those calls lol.

Bought an aluminum alps reel seat, which might be dumb as most spj rods go for small graphite reel seats since they bend all the way down to the butt but I wanted to cool trigger that came on it lol. Got some cool carbon fiber butt and handle pieces but wasn't super sure on how to assemble them as they have unfinished edges that look funny, so we tried to use some eva and we added cork and a rubber butt piece for durability. I also included a longer eva foregrip in case I need to rest it on a rail on the boat. Getting a little heavy but I think it will be fine. Mudhole's youtube series has some great episodes on how to think through the build and features to add.

Next step will be the acid wrap. It's been a fun process, not going super fancy with the wraps and decoration since I'm still learning, but watching my friend think through the assembly and being able to add whatever we want has been really cool.

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Launched first light hoping for a quick chrome pickup near the moorings but no luck, we peddled around the bait balls in the harbor but no action so continued down towards the CG buoy on a tip that bait was there and birds working. Made it down and saw some promising marks but no takers, maybe just one boat had lost a fish.

Later a boat called out some fish further south and the fleet (+rob) headed down there, (a 30# was later reported) we stuck near the beach and landed some hali, ling and RF. I lost a nice hali due to a missed gaff strike just taking the line out of its mouth :\

I wanted to find more bait to troll so I left my buddies at the beach and went straight out to 70' of water near the CG buoy again, promising marks and bait up top and bottom so I was trolling in between with a silver dodger and a cutplug. Wanted to check my rubber band so pulled up my gear and the nose of a large dark mass was swimming behind it. He swam under my yak and lined up next to me. Freaked out a bit I cant remember all that happened, just remember how dark his top was and he had a white scar on his dorsal fin. He was maybe just short of my outback but just as wide (10-12' x 3')... his topside was such a deep dark grey super unsettling to see that under the surface while watching my gear come up. Held my rod and cutplug with one hand and steered with my other and just kept slowly heading towards the beach. He followed for a bit then split off, the landlord just escorting me off his property, It actually played out very similar to that coho kids recent video of a shark checking him out. Didnt have the courage to get my camera out just focused on staying in the boat lol. I was a little shell shocked when I was retrieving my gear and would jump at the site of seaweed caught on my hooks.

Radio'd to my buddies what happened and that I was heading to them, probably sounded a lil choked up. Boaters were dicks humming the jaws soundtrack, my buddies were also dicks mocking my sun faded mango hobie that looks a little more yum yum yellow then it did 2 years ago. Just worked on breathing normal and slowing my heart rate down. I remember thinking that at 50 fow that he could just lunge up from the deep lol. Met them at 30 fow and felt safe near the coast, enough to continue fishing.

Exciting, 3/10 would not recommend.

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Fishing Pics / Rock Fish Age from Otolith
« on: July 06, 2022, 11:41:17 AM »
When I caught my most recent monster Verm, my buddy at the beach suggested taking out the otoliths for keepsake.

I had heard about this but never attempted it. I followed this guide on removal and aging process:
https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/species-especes/otoliths/students/removal-prelevement-eng.html

I had trouble locating it so I ended up boiling the head and finding them after picking apart the brain. I was able to see how my brain spiking aim is as well so that was cool. I had broken one of the ear bones but the other was nicely in tact. I tried to count the rings on the in tact ear bone and only saw 6 so I figured the fish was 6 years old. But someone on fb suggested that was a little young for such a large fish. I then tried the other method of burning the broken piece and then using a little jewelers lens to count the rings and photograph it.

Eye opening experience on how old these fish are and maybe has shifted my views on take of rockfish. Perhaps leaving the larger monsters to swim as breeders and focusing on the tastier/cleaner 15-20" rockfish. This guy had nice fillets, but when you catch 100+ of these fish a year I dont think there's a need to always keep the big ones. Had a real moral dilemma looking at this (my fiancé is just calling me a pussy tho lol).

Super interesting little study maybe some of you will enjoy it or have done it before. I'm counting maybe 20- 22 rings. (rings form each winter like a tree, you can even tell el-nino years from low growth patterns)

Enjoy!

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AOTY / My first 200 point AOTY fish!
« on: May 15, 2022, 09:41:28 PM »
Got a Huge Cabazon this weekend on a keel jig with a shrimp fly teaser using my new SPJ rod. (Barbless hooks)

SOO much fun, this was the only fish that peeled line on that rod this weekend. I was able to dead lift him off the bottom and just reel down a couple cranks every time. Once he got halfway up he just fanned out causing huge drag but I steady retrieved and got him in the net. Huge light blue fillets and a melted crab in his stomach!

I had crimped my barbs because I was also looking for salmon as well but the noodle rod kept everything pinned pretty well, really awesome weekend on the lost coast and filling out my aoty roster, like 5 species from this trip alone.

Anyways fish of a life time for me, so glad to be on the salt again up north,

happy hunting!

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Gearing Up and Rigging Up / Cheap stinger hooks
« on: April 12, 2022, 08:40:30 PM »
Some shrink wrap, hooks and 80lb poly cord for easy and cheap rockfish stinger hook setups.

I save all my nice Kevlar ones for tuna fishing, plus they are like 5 bucks a pop just for the hook! Rockfish cant chew through this poly cord luckily so i started just making a bunch of these on the cheap. I add some mini b2's and some of my jigs just have big siwashs under them.

So stoked for rockfish season, I cant wait to test my new SPJ rod!

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For Sale / Gear sale up in Humboldt
« on: December 10, 2021, 11:31:44 AM »
If any1 is up in Norcal check out this stuff.

(avet/trevela combo looks pretty sweet)

He isnt willing to ship tho, wants to sell locally.

https://humboldt.craigslist.org/spo/d/mckinleyville-hasa-fishing-gear-sale/7416428830.html

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So I had a squeak for maybe a month in my drive, I beached my drive in sand the other day and then had a catastrophic drive failure in the back fin. Front fin still worked but the back had a crushed roller bearing under the cone and most of my teeth were stripped the instant it seized up. Had to paddle the outback... (its got a 3 year warranty and I am in the process w my hobie rep to get a replacement spine)

A buddy named Troy helped show me how to take it apart and put the roller bearings back in place but a couple were destroyed and I maybe had 3 teeth left and the drive would skip gears. I tried to peddle it like this and the rest of the teeth were quickly lost along with losing more rollers.

I couldn't find the correct replacement roller bearings and I kind of hate that design of plastic rollers that were pitting the plastic inside of that cone and the spine.

I found out that a 1" pvc pipe fits in there as a bushing. I cut a 1/4" thick ring of the pipe and a 1/4" of the bell end that the pipe fits into. I needed to reduce the size just a tiny bit so I snipped some of both pipes so that they could tighten a little more to fit around the spine, but still inside the cone.

I greased them up and am able to move the unit as it should for now, obviously not as smooth as the roller bearings but I think it should work fine enough until I get a replacement spine. during this process I also knocked out the roller bearings from the other side of the spine. These things are just a total pain in the ass to deal with, they are so tricky to get back in place, I ended up using some grease to hold them in place.

For the stripped gear, my buddy showed me that screws could be drilled into the spine to make teeth for the chain to engage with so I figured I would try that. I used a pilot hole while the chain was in place, and used some stainless steel screws. I backed the screws off, removed the chain, and sank the screws in farther and cut them off to act as teeth. Sanding them so there were no sharp edges.

I only replaced the three center teeth with screws, with a gap of chain in between them. This leaves at least 2 screws engaged on a full peddle.

They didn't want to fit nicely as one of my screws was off, but I evenly tightened down on both sides and the chain slipped into place around the new teeth. I tried to tune the fins to be aligned but its not perfect.

I also had an issue with my idler cable being too stretched out. So I added an over sized nut as a washer so I had enough thread to tighten everything down. I am also using my non-turbo fins for now as I am worried about the force on those gears.

Just trying to get some key words in here so maybe some1 in the future can search for this as a DIY guide to trying to fix these Hobie peddle drives redneck engineering style.

Will test it out this weekend and report back, would appreciate any thoughts or additions to mirage drive repairs!

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Visited my sister in San Diego this past week and scored some charter trips down there.

Bluefin has been going off and my first trip out of Seaforth landing on the San Diego (day trip) scored about 1.5 fish per rod, I got one in the 20's and my bro-in-law scored a 40 and a 20. My family and I ate my entire bluefin throughout the week, it was awesome, sushi, seared, bbq collars, tacos, poke and salad. Super versatile and delicious. Im not a huge fan of the raw fish but the sushi and seared dinners were amazing. Lot of newbies and first timers on that boat but it went great, 100% recommend that crew, we had a blast and about 5 people ate hearts (first fish tradition).

The next weekend I went with my other bro-in-law on an overnight on the producer out of H&M landing. This crew has been worked to the bone and the BFT bite had been dying off, so we were expecting a long day of searching for a chance (high risk/high reward fishing) but they decided to switch it up for our trip and we boated 50 miles into Mexican waters to find kelp patties and ended up scoring some frenzied yellowtail midmorning. Limits for the boat (5/person), I put in some work and landed about 8 in a 2-hour window. EXHAUSTED!

These things were boiling, chomping on the fly line. Most of the boat was fly lining so after I had landed 3 in that fashion I wanted to take a break and try some jigs away from all the tangles and crowd. I first tried a colt sniper and could see fish following in and taking it on the drop. I then threw a custom Kaiju jig and scored a couple with that. I then used this maddog tackle flatfall with tiger/glow and I couldn't keep them off of it, every drift produced the fishing was insane and I could see hundreds of them down there. Yoyo style around the kelp and I was just having a blast w my trevala. So I was glad I could bring some of my Norcal gear down and slay those yellowtail. Wide open and smiles all around.

Rest of the week was spent playing Starwars Legos w my nephew and cooking tuna so just an all around good time with my week off work. Back to reality with a super sore back :(

TIGHT LINES

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For Sale / For sale - Paddle 230 Cm Hobie Fiber Shaft
« on: February 01, 2021, 12:47:03 PM »
Selling the paddle that came with my 2019 outback. Its nice and light and comfy. I just use it for launches. I want something that I can beat up a lil more since I'm usually just pushing off rocks and mud flats.

$80 OBO, posted on craigslist too, just trying to get a discount on my next paddle, I want one of those yak attack ones that has teeth and a hook on it so I can push myself around without worrying about my blades.

Trade offers welcome

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Gearing Up and Rigging Up / New combo
« on: January 27, 2021, 12:25:24 PM »
Got this custom seeker rod at an estate sale, and this 100 size Calcutta from craigslist which fits it perfectly (had to clean it up and replace drag).

Ive used the rod as a light tackle meat stick on the boat for rock fish (caught an 8lb verm) but I think ill try to use it for trout trolling as well, its a lil stiff medium action but the tip is sensitive. I love this combo except that the Calcutta is right handed but i can manage.

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Just got in from up north. Visiting my sister in richmond and brought my outback. Ive got sturgeon striped bass and trout gear so if any1 is going on an adventure please let me know! Ill keep a lookout for any open posts but please feel free to hit me up im free all week and just wanna paddle around and see what the bay has got. I plan on kicking around ferry point pier and brooks island for now since its so close, maybe find some bait..

Ill keep an eye out for hkups on here. Joints for any takers and im down to just get skunked!

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