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Hobart "Hobie" Laidlaw Alter (October 31, 1933 – March 29, 2014) was an American surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer, creator of the Hobie Cat catamarans, and founder of the Hobie company. He created the Hobie 33 ultralight-displacement sailboat and a mass-produced radio-controlled glider, the Hobie Hawk .
Hobie Alter sold the Hobie Cat Company to the Coleman Company in 1975. In 1982, Coast Catamaran (The official name of the Hobie Cat Company at that time) bought dinghy company Vagabond and its line of dinghy designs from Ron Holder and produced a series of dinghies (Hobie Hawk, Hobie Holder 12, Hobie Holder 14, Hobie Holder 17 & Hobie Holder 20) and monohulls in the 1980s and 1990s, including ...
The Hobie Bravo is an American catamaran sailing dinghy that was designed by Hobie Cat in 2000 and first built in 2001. The design is intended for sailing from beaches by one or two people. The design is intended for sailing from beaches by one or two people.
Hobie 18 Magnum The Hobie 18 is a sailing dinghy , built predominantly of fiberglass . It has a fractional sloop rig, The twin hulls have raked stems , near-plumb transoms , twin transom-hung rudders controlled by a single tiller and twin retractable daggerboards .
Without dagger boards but with a large sail area to weight ratio (the "16" weighed 325 lb (147 kg) at its inception and, with over 350 sq ft (33 m 2) of sail), the initial Hobie designs were able to sail into and out of heavy surf safely. The asymmetric hulls reduced lateral drift which made dagger board-dependent designs more difficult to ...
The Hobie 14 is a World Sailing competition class. [5] In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "The Hobie 16 and 18 ... are faster and perhaps more popular, but the Hobie 14 was the first ... This very fast boat has been clocked at over 24 mph ... Hobies are, with Sunfish, found at resorts all over the world. There are racing fleets to match.
A de-rigged Hobie 16 Hobie 16. The Hobie 16 is manufactured in France by the Hobie Cat company, and by the Hobie Cat of America company in the United States. [citation needed] The Hobie 16 normally carries two sails, the mainsail and the jib. There is a kit to allow an H16 to fly a spinnaker but this is only class legal for youth racing ...
Hobie Cat: Hobie Cat [189] Hobie Getaway: 2007: Hobie Cat: Hobie Cat [190] Hobie Wave: 1994: Morrelli & Melvin: Hobie Cat [191] Isotope: 1964: Frank Meldau: Fiberglass Unlimited [192] Lagoon 35: 1995: Morrelli and Melvin: Jeanneau TPI Composites Construction Navale Bordeaux Lagoon Catamaran [193] Lagoon 37: 1995: Van Peteghem/Lauriot-Prevost ...
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