The gusts were 20 knots and climbing. The sea was a whipped, white-capped froth. Kayak Fish lens man Aaron Schmidt and I were aboard a borrowed Hobie Mirage Tandem Island a long mile off a stony line ...

July 9, 2007 Hobie is a name that's been associated with innovation in aquatic sports since Hobie Alter started creating boards for the fledgling sport of surfing in his father's garage more than half ...

The Mirage Adventure Island shivered with delight as she took her first sip of La Jolla salt. I pulled the big Hobie—a hybrid craft featuring two outriggers, a mirage drive and a sail—out to waist ...

The evolution of the sailcraft has been underway for thousands of years but March could well become the significant point at which sailpower begins to merge with other energy forms to create a suite ...

Fifty years ago, Hobie Alter created the first-ever Hobie Cat catamaran on the stretch of beach in front of Wayne Schafer’s Capo Beach home. Schafer never could have imagined how far his friend’s ...

PACKING THE KIDS up in a recreation vehicle with a Hobie Cat sailboat in tow and heading off to a mountain lake to camp may not be everyone’s idea of a vacation. But, as Tiburon’s Charles Froeb can ...

The breeze was piping up off Annapolis, and the Hobie Getaway was next on our list. I couldn t wait. My wife Becky and I sailed the boat s baby sister–The Wave–down in the BVIs, and I knew that if it ...