Living on Key Largo, in the Florida Keys, "B'NANA SPLIT" #59650 Hobie 16 is sailed several times weekly, both day & night. We race when races are available in this area and it's less than a twenty mile beat to the start line.
Due to a well known hydrothermal anomaly: "Tropical Slushing", a condition which prevails when beachcats are sailed in sub-79 degree surface water temperatures & slows beachcats to a snail's pace, our sailing times are reduced during winter months!
However.... we are hard at work preparing for final tests of our newest invention: the "BeachCat De-Icer & Virtual Luff Radiant Heat Amplifier" (complete with tramp ice salting modifications), and hope to produce the 1st marketable version early this coming New Year (probably just after the New Years' party!

SeaWolf
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