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09-18-2017, 10:03 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Menifee, CA
Posts: 1,473
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Ummmm... Hobie copy?
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09-18-2017, 11:02 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Table 17, Bay Park Fish Co.
Posts: 943
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Nope - they get away from the Hobie drive patent by using a ring and pinion arrangement to operate the drive.
Good - we need some competition because I think what Hobie is charging for the 180 drive is flat out way too much. |
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09-18-2017, 11:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle Area
Posts: 861
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My work firewall doesnt like Alibaba....what brand is the boat?
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09-18-2017, 11:40 AM
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Junior
Join Date: Jul 2017
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09-18-2017, 12:05 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 74
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$550? I could see a lot of people taking their chances on this. Wonder if my MD will fit?
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09-22-2017, 12:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2016
Location: South OC
Posts: 120
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Oh I'll be taking my chances for sure. My office doesn't like Alibaba either, but this will be my X-mas present to me, this year.
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09-22-2017, 02:05 PM
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Malibu Stealth 12
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Hollywood, San Diego, Gonzaga Bay
Posts: 512
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Were did you guys see a price at?
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09-22-2017, 05:05 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: 1-2 miles off the point
Posts: 6,948
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You ever see those ads for fishing reels that look just like the $300 one but is only $49.95 made in China..............how did that work out for ya?
 They are probably $550 each if you purchase a container of em.
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09-23-2017, 10:03 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 809
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Minimum purchase probably like 40 units. Anybody notice the name, UBoat? Might as well call the thing a Sinker 10000. |
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09-23-2017, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 2,526
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Lol
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09-23-2017, 05:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 2,526
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What did they do?
Put a OK rudder and hatch on a hobie and call it a U Boat?
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09-23-2017, 08:45 PM
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Emperor
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Buena Park
Posts: 3,649
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Looks like a ho-bee....
With a muer-ag‘e drive (patented)
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09-25-2017, 08:16 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle Area
Posts: 861
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Ugh, bummer. You can reverse engineer just about anything, but its hard to replicate quality.
The absolute last thing I would shortcut is a plastic boat that holds me, and my beloved gear, above the sea.... |
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09-30-2017, 09:32 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: San Diego
Posts: 288
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Alibaba
What a lot of people don't think about is, Alibaba is a company in a communist country. There are no "right to privacy laws" there. That government can access your private information at anytime from that company without a subpoena. It could be auctioned off on the dark web without your knowledge. The next thing you know your credit card has been used somewhere on the other side of the world. Think about it. When it looks to good to be true, it probably is.
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09-30-2017, 10:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: SGV
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10-01-2017, 05:26 AM
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Sea Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home.
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Maybe there's only one size......
Big enough for a GI....JOE
you never no in the plastic world. I saw a guy behead a trolling motor and hook up a plastic steering wheel on a plastic canoe
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10-01-2017, 04:13 PM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Pine Valley when not fishing La Jolla
Posts: 2,643
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Looks like a "massage ho-bee", one size fit all. Not a Mirage Hobie.
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10-01-2017, 04:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: The I. E.
Posts: 353
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So do 499 other of you BWE members want to in with me on this smokin’ deal?
The sobering part is that 40 years ago everyone in the States made fun of Toyota and Datsun. |
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11-25-2017, 10:02 PM
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Xcoastie
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Westminster
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