With gas hovering around $5 a gallon and the green movement in full swing, what better way to access hard-to-reach surf spots than with a sailing kayak? After months of ogling over them online and ...

Cook Islands has claimed top honours at the Pacific Multihull Championship 2025 in Tahiti, with young sailors Edmund ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curious about catamaran sailing but don't know where to start? Here are four starter boats that'll have you purring. The post ...

Want to learn how to sail in Central New York? A group of skippers on Oneida Lake is offering free lessons every week all summer. Starting in June, Hobie Fleet 204 will host “Newbie Tuesdays” where ...

The 22nd Hobie 16 World Championships are sailing into Southwest Florida starting Nov. 1. This is the first time in 35 years Hobie and the International Hobie Class Association (IHCA) will host a ...

Leslie Terry makes her way toward one of the Hobie Cat sailboats at Cherry Creek Reservoir during Craig Hospital's "Hobie Day" on Friday. Terry was left a quadriplegic after a motor vehicle accident ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two words — surfboards and Hobie — were all but synonymous in the early 1960s, when teenagers who saw movies such as “Gidget” and “Beach Party” rushed to the shores of Southern ...