Hey there guys. Im a kiwi guy based in Aucklnad New Zealand(the old home of the Americas Cup) and have just bought a hobie 16 with a friend of mine.
Does anyone know of a hobie sail design that has a big horizontal section of red at the bottom,then smaller shades of orange to yellow, blue green etc to a big band of yellow at the head of the sail.I do have the hobie logo on the sail (although there is also a performance sails logo too) but no sail number(not the original sails for this boat but ?)
Thanks for any help you can give me
Also have looked at the site with all the designs over the years but to no joy.
There should be a sailmaker's patch at the tack of the sail (forward, lower corner). If it says "Hobie Sails," then the sails are legal for racing.
From about the mid-70's through the early 90's, the Hobie Sails patch was a white parallelogram about 7 cm long and 2 cm high. After that, it became a circular patch about 8 cm in diameter.
Thanks for the help mate...all i could find was a retangular "performance sails" logo at the tack of the main. Doesnt look good does it, for legal racing! Strange that it has the hobie logo near the head of the sail though, but the fact that i couldnt find the colour scheme now makes sense.
Thanks again
Most sail makers put the boat manufacturer's logo at the top of the sail - it's a pretty standard practice. I had custom sails built for a Nacra I owned some time ago and they had the "N" logo at the top. Monohull sailboats typically don't have the same sail manufacturer restrictions that we do in the catamarans. It's standard to get the proper logo at the top of the sail regardless of who is building the sail.
Thanks for the help...so is it fair to say if i want to compete in class racing here in New Zealand that ill have to purchase some new sails direct from The Hobie Cat Co?
An expensive exercise..im sure you would agree!
Not necessarily, you could get used sails from a hard-core racer in your area that gets new ones all the time, else you could get some used off ebay or something. 
Thanks heaps again...getting pretty frustrating all this talk of sailing..at present the boat is in many parts awaiting the epoxy treatment...cant wait till i can sail again!