[quote=scubasail]Back a number of years (more than ten or maybe even fifteen) this was contrct info for the guy who still had the molds for the Newport P-cat and a few parts and a great restored boat:
447 N. New Port Beach Blvd.
New Port Beach, California 92663-4210
telephone (714) 645-4520
Great guy with lots of info.
I bleieve he sent me a zerox'd copy of one of the original spec sheets.
He once told me that Hobie Alter's son used to mess around with sailing a solid bridge deck Pacific Cat (P-19), when the wind was up and the surf wasn't. The story goes that Hobie Alter got tired of fixing the rudders that his son tore off and the solid daggerboards he tore out of the boat by sailing and surfing the P-19 in and out of the surf and shoal water.
Looking for solutions, Hobie Alter came up with the famous, kick up rudder system he eventually used his first hobie cat and the boardless design.
When he looked for ways to market it, he noticed that the design and weight made righting and shipping the boat more complicated (or impossible) and more expensive.
That's when he hit on the idea of a de-mountable beams and a trampoline instead of the solid bridge and the boardless design of the asymetrical hulls.
I used mine for years, inlcuding dragging it down to Mexcio's Sea of Cortez.
We often put four scuba divers, lunch and equipment on it for the day.
We even hung a 35 hp outboard on it, to push it when the wind didn't blow.
A few times, minus the four guys and equipment, we even used it to pull a water skier.
I blew up the fully battened main a number of years ago. I've thought of trying to modify a sial from Minney's (Southern California) or cutting the boom and using a Hobie 16 sail.
I'm also thinking of letting the boat go to a worthy new owner, now that I've been using a Stiletto 27 instead.
Right now it is sitting on the shores of Bear Lake, Idaho.<!-- editby --><em>Edited by scubasail on May 11, 2012 - 10:09 AM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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