Amendment to Notice of Race Number 5
Lauritz Bockelmann and Kim Liedke, who have just come to Sylt from France as newly crowned Vice European Champion, and their partner Stefan Wiese-Dohse / Anke Delius win the prestigious Final Race winner title in 2019 on the Super Sail Tour. The team already traveled as a leading team in the ranking to Westerland, but […]
The Sylt Sailing Week will start next weekend and Westerland will be the meeting point of Germany’s most spectacular sailing tour. On Friday, August 2, 2019, the sailing event of the extra class, which has advanced to the second largest sports event on the island, will begin. Sylt has been hosting Hobie 16 events since […]
A warm day greeted the sailors in La Rochelle for the two day of qualifications for the Hobie 16 Europeans. This is for the crews that didn’t manage to qualify in their own country. 52 sailors made it to the startline and sailed in light winds. Camilla Cordero Di Montezemolo/ Simona Cordero Di Monteze ITA […]
Hobie Fleet 252 will host the 2019 Hobie 16 National Championships in Savusavu December 7 and 8th. The will be a Hobie Clinic on the 6th . There are charter boats available More information please contact secretary@sailing.org.fj
10 Hobie 16 teams from 7 countries competed at the XVI Pacific Games and Hobie 16 Oceania Championships, in Mulifunua, Samoa. Each country in Oceania was limited to a maximum of two entries and had to be nominated by their National Olympic Committee. The racing was conducted over a week with winds varying from 7 […]
The first to start racing in La Rochelle were the Hobie 14 and Dragoon World Championships and the Hobie 16 Youth. With 15 Dragoons, 23 Hobie 14 and 32 Hobie 16 Youth teams taking to the water. La Rochelle turned on some perfect Hobie weather. 12-15 knots gusting up to 19 knots produced some perfect […]
Mario Roberto Arantes Dubeux; Brazil Since 1997 (HC14) I have attended all the Hobie cat’s world championship. It is the biggest hobie family reunion worldwide. My father (Mario José Dubeux Júnior in memoriam), was the Hobie Cat class’ pioneer in Brazil. It is a great pleasure for the Dubeux’s family to have two of the […]
33 boats from 8 countries attended the 2019 Hobie 16 Asian Champions in Weihai,China. All boats were supplied and chartered. 15 of the boats were new boats. Weihai had previously hosted a Hobie 16 World Championships. With a new sailing club and new organisation the event was totally reformed. With anew 4 star host hotel […]
A more than successful prelude to Germany’s biggest sailing tour in Grömitz. The registration number of 100 boats in the classes Hobie 16, Hobie 14 and Open Skiff has been reached. All the water was full of boats, wherever the eye looked. In the field of 60 Hobie 16 Lauritz Bockelmann / Kim Liedke won […]
The US Sailing Multihull Championships is an event that rotates amongst the catamaran classes. This year’s event was held on Hobie 14’s. This was a three-day regatta held concurrently with a two-day Hobie regatta for the other classes. Spray Beach Yacht Club in Long Beach Island, New Jersey hosted the regatta. Spray Beach YC has […]
The Rules Committee has received questions on the interpretation of Hobie Wave Rule 6.10: A line or shock cord line may through a single block be attached to the bridle and run to a cleat of any design on the front crossbar to adjust mast rake. The mechanical purchase shall not exceed 2:1. There can […]
To incentivise more participants in the Hobie 16 Youth World event the entry fee to 22nd Hobie 16 Youth World Championships at Captiva Island Florida has been reduced from USD$590 to USD$400. Due to the generous support from Hobie Cat Company, for a limited time, the youth entry fee has been reduced until the 31st […]
The Super Sail Tour of the PROSAIL Sail Events Germany has stood for more than 20 years of the most attractive, international sailing with top sailors, cool party atmosphere and lots of fun for everyone involved shore and offshore. Grömitz, the Baltic Sea spa of the sunny side, is the season opener in the Hobie […]
On the 24, 25 and 26 of May, the Mexican Hobie Cat Fleet celebrated their 4th National Championship in the Club Nautico San Gaspar del Lago, located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. In this occasion, the most important guest of all, the wind, made his weak appearance, constantly changing, making predictions and readings hard for […]
Sailing season in North America is well underway now and the cold weather is behind us for another year. We have been to two regattas so far and our calendars are full with upcoming events. Recently we just returned from our annual trip to Syracuse, NY. It’s always a big regatta but the weather can […]
