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The Hobie 14 was the initial design produced by Hobie Cat and led to a large family of similar boats that have been produced in numbers exceeding 200,000. [1] The design was built by Hobie Cat in the United States from 1967 until 2004 and in Europe until the late 2000s, but it is now out of production. [1] [3] [4]
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 boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the Holder 20 One Design Class. [5] In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "best features: The Holder 20 is light enough to plane in a modest breeze. A long, wide cockpit offers plenty of room for crew in optimizing weight position and sail handling.
Holder 17 This cabin model was introduced in 1982. It has a length overall of 17.00 ft (5.2 m), a waterline length of 15.00 ft (4.6 m), displaces 950 lb (431 kg) and carries 325 lb (147 kg) of ballast. The boat has a draft of 4.17 ft (1.27 m) with the swing keel down and 1.17 ft (0.36 m) with it retracted. [1] [3] Holder 17 DS
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 .
The International Hobie Class Association describes the boat's sailing characteristics: "the 17 is a heavy air machine. The added leverage of the wings for trapezing makes the 17 go upwind like no other catamaran, and the main is easily depowered with a 6:1 downhaul, the mast rotator, 2:1 outhaul and a 7:1 mainsheet.
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 ...
The Lido 14 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, with gold-colored anodized aluminum spars and a loose-footed mainsail . The hull features a spooned plumb stem , a near-vertical transom , a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard that is ...