Hobie AI/TI issues?

Yep, will likely "harden" the thing you mentioned not to because well, its not a kayak, its a boat and it should be able to withstand all the abuse the ocean can dish out.  You specifically mentioned that was designed that way to prevent other stuff from breaking, but nah, it shouldn't be like that.  This is all I'm hearing.   .

Yep, will likely "harden" the thing you mentioned not to because well, its not a kayak, its a boat and it should be able to withstand all the abuse the ocean can dish out.  You specifically mentioned that was designed that way to prevent other stuff from breaking, but nah, it shouldn't be like that.  This is all I'm hearing.   .

There is a guy on the Hobie forum—retired engineer with too much time on his hands—who has tested out some of the parts that are designed to fail (to prevent a worse failure). One of his tests that I recall involved the aka shear pins. He measured the force that is transferred to the bar that holds the ama out (shear pins connects it to aka bar and it clips onto a small ball on the hull). His conclusion was that even if the shear pin was just slightly stronger, at a minimum the ball would snap off, and more than likely, the hull would crack.