With the nationals held for the first time ever on inland waterways in South Africa it did all that it was asked to do providing strong winds, light winds, opportunities for sailors who don’t normally come to national Championships to participate in a nationals, participation by lots of junior and up-and-coming sailors and even plenty […]

The 2016 Hobie 16 & 18 North American Championships had it all. From light winds to medium winds. Great parties at the pool and lots of friends telling stories each night of what might have been. Below we have captured all the highlights of the event with some great photos and videos. Enjoy the action in […]

Day 1 of the warm up The 2016 Hobie 16 & Hobie 18 North American Championships warm up regatta (aka the Pinata Regatta). Three races today in about 5 knots of wind. There were a few wind shifts and those who correctly called the shifts did well. No pressure increase with the shifts just direction […]

Book your holidays, organise your transport and accommodation. The schedules for the Race schedule Hobie® 2017 Multi Worlds & Europeans has now been released. More details at www.hobieworlds.com   Monday 17 July 2017 Registration and boat transport onto the beach Tuesday 18 July 2017 Registration and boat transport onto the beach Wednesday 19 July 2017 Registration and […]

Hobie Cape sprang into action at the start of the 2016/2017 season with Spring and the West Coast Flower season bringing heaps of visitors to the area. First up was the Triple Crown #1 with a great turnout of 25 boats and eager sailors frantically trying to recall how to rig their favourite chariots after […]

The Championships race venue, St. Aubin’s Bay, was a blaze of colour from the bright Hobie® Cat sails on a sunny and cloudless first day of racing last Saturday morning. The light wind offered no more than 5 knots, with the crews focused on keeping their boats moving in the somewhat glassy sea conditions. With […]

More convincing result a team cannot sail a regatta if after 12 races (two discards) only 1st places stand in the results at the end. Yesterday the 5th Hobie 16 World Cat on the North Sea island Sylt went to an end. The current world champion Daniel Bjørnholt controlled the surf on Sylt with his […]