Modern design, enhanced stability and creature comforts, along with remarkable utility make for a stunning trailerable beach camp cruiser for passionate multihullers.

Hobie Alter introduced the Hobie 16 catamaran in 1969 and the sailing world, as it was known, hasn’t been the same since. In 1992, with many of the beach cat lifestyle crowd having families of their own, the Hobie Cat company introduced a new boat called the Hobie 21 SC (Sport Cruiser) that was aimed at the more leisurely needs of beach cat cruising, rather than the well-known, hull flying beach cats.

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Posted: September 17th, 2009 under Catamarans, Open Bridgedeck Cats, Sailing Multihulls.
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For the past ten years, I’ve been collecting photos and written recollections from some of the founding members of the mid-20th Century re-awakening of the Polynesian catamaran form as a sailing craft. The names of Brown, Choy, Seaman, Kumalae, Edwards, Munoz and a dozen others set the standard by which all multihull designers still measure themselves.

http://proafile.com/view/weblog/comments/old_school/

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Posted: April 29th, 2009 under Catamarans, Open Bridgedeck Cats, Sailing Multihulls.
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