| |  Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: _flatlander_]
#252350
09/15/12 08:12 AM 09/15/12 08:12 AM |
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,658
Florida Suncoast, Dunedin Caus... catman 
Pooh-Bah
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,658
Florida Suncoast, Dunedin Caus... | and what's the odds Hobie NA will sell more than fifty Hobie 16's in 2012? extremely small market indeed I have people that come in looking for something. Everyone of them say the same thing. "Used to have a H-16 but don't want another." They don't want plastic either.
Have Fun
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: sail7seas]
#252352
09/15/12 08:48 AM 09/15/12 08:48 AM |
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,884
Detroit, MI mbounds OP
Pooh-Bah
|
OP
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,884
Detroit, MI | What do you get AFTER a Hobie Wave amd remain singlehand, and do not want a H16, with a LOW price tag? Hobie 17. Best boat Hobie's ever made. Good ones sell for less than $4K. | | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252354
09/15/12 01:31 PM 09/15/12 01:31 PM |
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,119
Northfield Mn Karl_Brogger
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,119
Northfield Mn | Matt, remind me to punch you in the seeds next weekend.
Thanks.
I'm boatless.
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252355
09/15/12 01:40 PM 09/15/12 01:40 PM |
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,584
+31NL Tony_F18
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,584
+31NL | What do you get AFTER a Hobie Wave amd remain singlehand, and do not want a H16, with a LOW price tag? Hobie 17. Best boat Hobie's ever made. Good ones sell for less than $4K. I cant tell if you are joking or serious. Its a singlehander which weights a ton and is almost impossible to right unless you weight 200kgs. | | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: Karl_Brogger]
#252356
09/15/12 02:46 PM 09/15/12 02:46 PM |
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,884
Detroit, MI mbounds OP
Pooh-Bah
|
OP
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,884
Detroit, MI | Matt, remind me to punch you in the seeds next weekend.
Thanks. Obvious troll is obvious. 200 kgs? Um, no. I weigh 175 lbs (<80 kgs) and I have no trouble righting mine. Then again, my mast doesn't leak. | | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252357
09/15/12 03:14 PM 09/15/12 03:14 PM |
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 917
Issaquah, WA, USA H17cat
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 917
Issaquah, WA, USA | What do you get AFTER a Hobie Wave amd remain singlehand, and do not want a H16, with a LOW price tag? Hobie 17. Best boat Hobie's ever made. Good ones sell for less than $4K. Agree, got my last one for $1,800 with trailer. 2000 Sport in great shape. | | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252358
09/15/12 08:12 PM 09/15/12 08:12 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12,310
South Carolina Jake
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12,310
South Carolina | What do you get AFTER a Hobie Wave amd remain singlehand, and do not want a H16, with a LOW price tag? Hobie 17. Best boat Hobie's ever made. Good ones sell for less than $4K. Ummm...nah....that boat is happier sitting in irons than any boat I've ever sailed. You should really try an A.
Jake Kohl
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: Jake]
#252368
09/16/12 08:20 AM 09/16/12 08:20 AM |
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,884
Detroit, MI mbounds OP
Pooh-Bah
|
OP
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,884
Detroit, MI | What do you get AFTER a Hobie Wave amd remain singlehand, and do not want a H16, with a LOW price tag? Hobie 17. Best boat Hobie's ever made. Good ones sell for less than $4K. Ummm...nah....that boat is happier sitting in irons than any boat I've ever sailed. You should really try an A. You obivously never sailed a Hobie 14 in any kind of a breeze. It's like mud wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig has fun. On the Hobie 17: We choose to sail Hobie 17s. We choose to sail Hobie 17s in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. Famous speech I've heard before. | | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: H17cat]
#252369
09/16/12 08:22 AM 09/16/12 08:22 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12,310
South Carolina Jake
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12,310
South Carolina | Different boats for different folks. We have had three H-17's in our family, with three generations of Tarleton's racing them. Probably the best cat to sail in high winds. But what do we know, only been sailing them since 1986. My H17 experience was limited to light to moderate breeze in a couple of regattas...so I can't speak for how it is to sail in breeze.
Jake Kohl
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252371
09/16/12 09:27 AM 09/16/12 09:27 AM |
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,119
Northfield Mn Karl_Brogger
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,119
Northfield Mn | Fred, set something down on your kitchen table. Anything. Now I want you to move it using only your mind. Let me know how that goes, then you can work up to easier things like changing Matt's mind about the H17.
I'm boatless.
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252373
09/16/12 10:20 AM 09/16/12 10:20 AM |
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 5,525 pgp
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 5,525
| Almost anything performs better dw than a H17
Pete Pollard
Blade 702
'When you have a lot of things to do, it's best to get your nap out of the way first.
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: mbounds]
#252374
09/16/12 10:35 AM 09/16/12 10:35 AM |
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 3,224
Roanoke Island ,N.C. Team_Cat_Fever
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 3,224
Roanoke Island ,N.C. | What do you get AFTER a Hobie Wave amd remain singlehand, and do not want a H16, with a LOW price tag? Hobie 17. Best boat Hobie's ever made. Good ones sell for less than $4K. In Matt's defense he said "Best boat Hobie's ever made." Hobie has never made an A cat. Now if the question was "What's the best singlehanded cat out there?", I think hands down the answer would be "A cat". You can also pick them up (decent ones like Boyer Mk3 and Mk4s) for 4-5k used.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
| | | Re: Hobie Cat Company Acquires Hobie Cat Europe
[Re: pgp]
#252379
09/16/12 02:14 PM 09/16/12 02:14 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 162
Dunedin Causeway, FL hobiephil
member
|
member
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 162
Dunedin Causeway, FL | Almost anything performs better dw than a H17 Which is why you mount a spinnaker on one and have a blast. | | |
| |
0 registered members (),
901
guests, and 37
spiders. | | Key: Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod | | | Forums26 Topics22,406 Posts267,060 Members8,150 | | Most Online2,167
Dec 19th, 2022 | | |
