Dozens of brightly colored sails appeared along the east shore of Onondaga Lake on Tuesday afternoon as skippers rigged their catamarans in preparation for the Hobie Wave 2023 North American ...
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 ...
In the late 1960s surf-shop owner Hobie Alter (b. 1933) and some friends decided to design a catamaran. Easy to drag down a beach, fun to sail, and costing only $1,000, the Hobie 14 was an instant hit ...
Michael Worrell said the Worrell 1000 is “sort of a catamaran cult classic.” The event attracts sailors who are devoted to their twin-hulled boats. Over the years, the race that Worrell co-founded in ...