https://www.ebay.com/itm/…rt=nc&LH_TitleDesc=0%7C0

Looks like a lot of work!

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Steve
Nacra Inter 20
Okemos Michigan
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Hmmm, Hobie 16 prototype? Yeeeeaaahh, that looks like an outrigger boat to me so, I would be suspicious of that one.

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Marty
1984 Hobie 16 Redline Yellow Nationals, "Yellow Fever"
Opelika, Al / Lake Martin
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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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lots of people call any catamaran a hobie

Maybe he means, it is the boat that Hobie first saw that gave him the idea of creating catamarans.

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Prindle 18 w/ wings, Prindle 16, Prindle 15, current
Hobie 16 in rebuild
2 Hobie 18 past
NACRA 5.2 past

Saint Cloud, Florida
member Lake Eustis Sail Club
http://www.lakeeustissailingclub.org
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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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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!!!

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Marty
1984 Hobie 16 Redline Yellow Nationals, "Yellow Fever"
Opelika, Al / Lake Martin
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