Looks like a lot of work!
Hmmm, Hobie 16 prototype? Yeeeeaaahh, that looks like an outrigger boat to me so, I would be suspicious of that one.
Agreed. Not to mention, everything I’ve ever read says that Hobie’s catamaran prototypes were all fiberglass/foam. By the time he had gotten into designing cats, wood was a thing of the past (for him). That was part of the reason he is considered so innovative - he and is team could shape up up a fiberglass/foam prototype hull one day and be sailing it the next. Couldn’t do that with traditional boat building techniques or wood construction.
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Steve M.
lots of people call any catamaran a hobie
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Maybe he means, it is the boat that Hobie first saw that gave him the idea of creating catamarans.
My understanding is that Hobie’s catamaran inspiration came from Woody Brown’s “Manu Kai”, a large wooden catamaran they sailed in Hawaii and the Pacific Cat (P-Cat) they sailed off the beach in CA.
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Steve M.
Correct Dogboy. The boat in the ad looks like a "Malibu Outrigger", definitely not a Hobie 16 prototype for sure, but I would bet it would be fun to sail that thing!!!