https://www.ebay.com/itm/…rt=nc&LH_TitleDesc=0%7C0
Looks like a lot of work!
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Okemos Michigan
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Wooden Hobie 16?
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Posted: Jul 25, 2018 - 12:45 PM
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Posted: Jul 25, 2018 - 04:13 PM
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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Posted: Jul 26, 2018 - 05:46 AM
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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Posted: Jul 26, 2018 - 08:12 AM
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Posted: Jul 26, 2018 - 08:18 AM
Maybe he means, it is the boat that Hobie first saw that gave him the idea of creating catamarans.
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Posted: Jul 26, 2018 - 08:38 AM
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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Posted: Jul 26, 2018 - 09:32 AM
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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1984 Hobie 16 Redline Yellow Nationals, "Yellow Fever"
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