Nice pants.....

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Care to explain?

Lee and Dale, two of the kindest folks I ever met

LOL!!!! The mystery of Dolly SOLVED. What would a "boinking sheep" signed by Hobie Alter go for?

I think maybe I'm afraid to inquire about the story behind "Dolly". Mike, I had one of those treasured "PU" hats. John Smith owed me a hat, and gave me his because it was too small! I lost it in Boston despite putting my name and number in it.

John, I found the T-shirt from Wildwood 93.
I have the 75th place "Trophey" somewhere. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Nice! I bet you don't have one of these - remember what we did the day we had no breeze? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Hobie has one serious sense of humor! Dolly signed by him has to be priceless!

The real question is, is that a current picture? Does Dolly still hold air?

Brian, the "official" version is that the regatta leader at the end of each day at the Hobie 20 NAs in Tampa was "awarded" Dolly and had to fly her from the mast. Well, I don't know for sure that it wasn't placed on the boat for you, or any other things that might have been done with Dolly. I was on the signal boat all week, and don't recall seeing Dolly on the water, so it truly was a nocturnal thing...

Mike

Alright, I was nowhere near this event; I was around 5 years old, but here it is. Proudly hanging in my shop is a 1979 H14 Nats shirt.


It was given to me by Kirk Jefferies of Inland Sailing just before he died.

Hey- Nice smooth skin, great smile!
But who is the guy?

finally got a picture of it....though it's not quite memorabilia...it's close.

A catamaran/sailing stamp collection that my wife put together for my birthday a few years ago. She spent over a year collecting stamps from around the world for this project on Ebay. The background is a piece of one of my old Hobie 18 jibs.

Hi-res version HERE. Sorry about the quality of photo, my work camera is mediocre.

Well, that is extremely cool, for many, many reasons.

My only question is, why wasn't there (or has there been) any Hobie Cats on US stamps? The company started in California!!!

Mike

I think I might know of something that trumps all... gotta get a pic of it this week.

no doubt - there's a stamp on there from Libya for heaven's sake. My favorite is the Moscow Olympics Tornado commemorative stamp issued in 1978.

I'm not using any trophies, or regatta T-shirts, but,

I was paying for breakfast in South Padre before the start of 'Ruff Rider Regatta' a few years ago, glanced at the sailboats on the refrigerator magnets board next to the cash register and,
My Nacra 6.0 was on it, along with 2 H16's, sitting on the beach from the year before. Yea, I bought 3 of them.

And,

I have a windbreaker, I had made out of my old Dacron P 18-2 sail. The huge P smaller 18-2 emblem from the sail is on the back.

Sorry, at work, no pics.

Sharks rule....