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November/December 1983 Volume 12, Number 6
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REGATTA REVIEW
31/They Sail Hobies in Nebraska Too
Fleet 192 sponsors a regatta for thefamily of racers in Division 7.
48/1983 Canadian Nationals
Serious racing and fun partying come togetheron Canada's LakeWinnipeg.
74/Association des Hobie Cat
From across the Pacific comes a tropical breed of Hobie sailors.
FEATURES
6/Introducing the Hobie 18 Magnum
An exciting new adventurefor Hobie sailors.
16/Sailing Strategy
Mel, Jake and Jane return to explain the puzzles ofwind andwave action.
20/The Second Language of Sailors
An easyguide to those often baffling sailing and racing terms.
26/The Great Lakes Challenge
Exploring the largest inland bodies ofwater in theworld can be fun... and dangerous.
30/Maintaining Through the Winter
ON THE COVER Keep busy until the ice thaws.
32/Freshwater Sailing
PhotographerGuy Motil takes us on a sailing vacation to a mountain lake.
44/Reefing the Hobie 18 for Heavy Air
A Hobie 18 sailorcomes uD with a great remedyforthe "toowindy" blues.
46/Here Come the Regulators
Beach usage becomesa controversial issue affecting sailors.
69/Police Olympics
Cops on cats sail to victory in this annual event.
DEPARTMENTS
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9/Hobietorial
:6 .Set
11/Letters
Ahullsupsalutetothe1984 51 /Hobie Racing
SummerOlympicGames. 68/Reader's Forum
Thecenterboatisaspecial
70/Hobie Briefs
"SummerGames"model.
Forevery "SummerGames" 79/Last Look
boatsold, HobieCatwill
makeadonationtothe
UnitedStatesOlympic
HotLinePublications, all rights reserved. TheHotLine magazineis publishedbi-monthlybytheWorld HobieClass
SailingTeam. Photoby Association,4925E.OceansideBlvd.,Oceanside,CA92056.SubscriptionsinUSA$9peryear(sixissues);inCanada
GuyMotil. andotherforeigncountries, $15 peryear.
November/December 1983 5
THE HOBIE 18 a
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• kippers call it exciting.
Passengerssayit'scomfortable.They're
talking aboutHobie Cat's latestaddition
to its high performance family, the new
Hobie18 Magnum.
The engineersat Hobie Cat Corpora-
tion have designedthe Hobie 18 Mag- ..
num to achieve the bestof boththehigh
performance and comfort worlds. Tech-
nicians experimented foroverayear
before theywere satisfied with theca-
pabilitiesof thenewwingswhichare the
cornerstoneof theHobie 18 Magnum.
The anodized aluminum wingssport a
polypropylenemesh trampolineseat. Ini-
tial reports indicatethatthe Hobie18
Magnum performs extremelywell in
heavierwindssince both skipperand
crewcan hike much furtherout. Trapeze • \ • · 0,3·4 6..·. 036, .--.-....
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wires run underandtothe outside of -· • ''· -': 4
thewings, so both skipperand crew are F*--*- ..
ableto hike outfurther than on any - '--50 -./ .1 ..'
otherstandard boat. This advantage,
when combined with an increase in
beam width of fourfeet, makesthe . ..............-'.''ll./'-
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Magnum a definitestar whenona reach .·-· .• is,• ,2..ls'.a...··r-.
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Fortunately,the extra beam width
does notaffectthetrailerabilityofthe
boat. In orderto assure road legality, the
Magnumwasdesigned so thatthe
wingsfold up and ontothetrampoline. Sailorsfindarealchallengeinskip-
Comfortis the otheradvantageintrin- peringtheHoble18Magnum. Itsextra
sic tothe Magnum. Sincethewingsare stabilitymeansgreaterboatspeedin
7'7' long and15"wide, theyare roomy heavierweatherandtheincreasedhik-
enoughto accommodate uptothree ing leverageaddsnotonlymorespeed,
passengerswithoutcrowding. Theyall butsomethrilling hullflyingaswell.
will remain remarkablydry; drier,
indeed, than on anyothercomparable
catamaran.
Becauseofthis extra weightand
becauseofthe Magnum's increased
performance, aseparateclass will be *patentpending
established as the demand increases.
November/December1983 7
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Magnum wing conversion kits are
available for those sailors whowish to
add wings to their standard Hobie 18s. .V
The procedure is simple and requires a
minimum of time and effort. These kits
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can be purchased through authorized
Hobie Cat dealers.
Two of the best Hoble 18 sailors in the.
world, Carlton Tucker and Hobie Alter
Jr., seem to have nothing butgood
thingsto say about the new Hobie 18
Magnum. The two greatestadvantages,
saythesetwo sailors, are comfort and
lots of extra excitement.
"Myfather is of the oldergeneration," tz=
saysTucker, "and he loves it because it
is so comfortable."
"Really," says Alter, "it's like sailing in
a lawn chair."
"I took it outwhen it was blowing
between 35 and 40 and I tell you I was
undercontrol a heck of alot more than if
I hadn't had those wings. Going 20 mph
In that boat is a strange and terrific
feeling ...1 took it out night sailing and
it wasjust beautiful. Put a girl on one
side and me on the otherand it was 1
fantastic;' said Tucker.
As far as excitement goes, these 1
skippers feel that the Magnum has no 32-JaZE«•
shortage of thrills. Alterclaims thatyou
can really "max out" on the Magnum, .-..-I \
yet stay much drier.
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"A whole lot more excitement," is
howTucker describes it. "You can put -_--il
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more people on it and then theyget ..
excited. I tell you, we've gotall kinds of '.
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boats down here (Tucker's father owns
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Florida) and it is definitelymy favorite." t., .L-0
That seems to be the concensus. Sail- -3-- ---$
ors in the know appearto enjoythe I. -/51;r .= -6--
extra comfort even if theydon't race.
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And everyone likes theextra perform- .--
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ance. It looks as though the Hobie 18
Magnum may start a new wave in
catamaraning.
ThenewMagnumwingsareeasyto
trailerandcomfortableto use. Their
abilityto befoldedontothetrampoline
injustsecondsmakesthemverycon-
venient. Relaxing onthewings'tam-
polinemaybecomethe newestwayto
cruiseon Hobies. Infact, somesailors
like tousethelongtillerextensionto
loungeonthewingswhensailing easily.
8 Hobie Hotline
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HOBIETORIAL
Of Things New
HOTLINEDIRECTOR
BobBrown
EXECUTIVEEDITOR
PaulaAlter
The 1984 Hobie Cat Dealers Lakes Huron and Michigan in The
ASSOCIATEEDITOR Meeting was held recently on the Great Lakes Challenge.
, BrianAlexander· Kona side of the big island of San Franciscan Bill Andersen
HOBIERACINGEDITOR Hawaii. Between excursions into has some interesting'advice for
: MicheleKrcelic
the lava flows, the dealers talked those sailors who dream of taking
ARTDIRECTOR
NormVitale about what's new for 1984 includ- on a little more wind when sailing
DESIGN' ing the new colors being featured their Hobie 18s. Andersen, who
JanaWhitney
in FreshwaterSailing which ap- has wide experience on a variety
HOBIERACINGDESIGN
JohnPilcher pears in this issue. The exciting of boats, has developed a reefing
new Hobie 18 Magnum was also system that's certainly worth
CIRCULATIONMANAGER
BonnieHepburn introduced at the dealer meeting. investigating.
CIRCULATIONASSISTANT Now you can get acquainted with Although the Hotline has been
MelissaNeff
this latest addition to the Hobie steadily improving over the last
CONTRIBUTORS family on page six. couple of years, we know there's
BillAndersen·SueBjshop 042 Hobie dealers had lots of ideas always room for more. Toward that
PhyllisCherubini T04e2rri Crary 042
JoeFlaherty 0R4u2ssGillis J0o42hnGrant 042 for future Hot/ines and many had end, we have expanded our staff
JeffMau 0C4r2aigMayes C04u2rtMayes 042
to increase their orders for the to include our new Associate
CONTRIBUTINGPHOTOGRAPHERS magazine. You seem to be buying Editor, Brian Alexander. Brian loves
PaulBlackburn· DosChappell 042
SallyChestnut 0G4u2yMotil 0G4e2rryPringle them out. Keep up the good work. to research and write about issues
.·Will Roundy 0R4o2gerScruggs Joe Flaherty brings us yet an- of interest to Hobie sailors. This
other Mel Furd and Jane the crew month, he briefly examines several
HOBIECLASSASSOCIATION
SandyBanks,ExecutiveDirector saga. Flaherty's experience and pieces of local legislation that
MicheleKrcelic,ClassDirectorUSA -
RoseRoberts,RegattaSchedule writing abilities make learning rules affect the catamaran sailor's way
and strategy fun, especially for be- of life, and what some groups are
HOTLINEPUBLICATIONS ginning racers. Terri Crary takes a doing about it, in Here Come the
PO.Box1008
Oceanside,CA92054 humorous look at that mysterious Regulators.
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TheHobieHotlineistheofficial second nature to some but can be advice on keeping your Hobie in
publicationoftheWidHobieClass quite confusing to others. "Hard shape for a long winter's nap. A
Association.Distributedworldwide,the
on the wind" doesn't mean giving real potpourri greets the reader in
magazineispublishedsixtimesperyear:
January/February,March/April,May/June, the wind a bad time. this issue so enjoy.
July/August,September/October, From Michigan comes the story Remember, just because the
· •• . November/December.
Subscriptionsmaybeobtainedby of two intrepid adventurers named sailing season is ending in some
sendingcheckormoneyorder(foreign Craig and Curt Mayes. They've parts of the country doesn't mean
subscriberssendInternationalMoneyOrder made two forays into the unpre- that you cannot enjoy the Hobie
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SlibSCriptiOnS,RO.Box1008,Oceanside, dictable Great Lakes on Hobie life. After all, that's what the
CA92054.Subscriberswithchangeof Cats, and, in this issue, we feature Hotline islori
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their longest journey through
labelandalloweightweeksforprocessing. -3-6-ag-62
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photographsonacontributionbasis.Sand
-' onlytyped,double-spacedmanuscriptsand
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printsorcolortransparencies(slides)
Includeaself-addressedenvelopewith
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. Advertisingratesavailableonrequest.
Insertionordersmustbeplacedseven
weekspriortocoverdate.Advertisements
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HobieClassAssociation.Useofthestylized
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Note: DamagetoanyHobiesailboats
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