Hobie Cat Europe has been working with Nissan over in Europe. They are doing some cross marketing. Nissan has a truck with a "Hobie" package. They are providing these trucks to some of the Tiger sailors over there and to Hobie Europe.

They had been waiting for the conditions to be right at the "Trench" over in France. A place used for speed trials. It was happening last week and they got the following video. This includes a dramatic pitch pole that looks very similar to the A class cat pitch posted here about a week ago. The boat goes airborne bows-and-all… after a big stuff! Actually looks like they may have hit bottom.


http://www.hobieco.com/linked_images/nissan_hobietiger.wmv

Any good measurements of the speed they achieved?

Awesome video, hope we will get to see some more of this!

Trenchpole!

The Texas City Dike water conditions could be compared to the ditch. When the wind is blowing directly out of the South at TCD you have protected waters 8 feet deep for 4 miles. Last weekend it was blowing 30 knots out of the North so the water was rough on the beach side. But during the Early Spring and late fall you can get some kick butt South winds with this smooth water. We should invite Nissan USA down to the dike to create another commercial. Green & Tomko could show off their stuff.

We need a Longer Video!!!!!! Get them to send it!!

Yes please

Why do they have the boat on the trailer upside-down and backwards?

D HO
TheMightyHobie18 1067

Because there are three boats on that trailer - six hulls.

The boats are unframed.

...ya mon, we be needin' more vid-e-o!..


The 'wipe out' portion,....I see 2 sailors on a one sail boat,.....the boom is too big to be a FX-1 ( ditto to the hulls)

So, what Hobie are we lookin' at ,....looks big like a M20,....is this the next Hobie?

...come on Factory Rep,...spill the beans


regards,

Bruce
St. Croix

Tiger no jib

Ghastly

OK, the video is very cool and I'd love to see more, but what abot the truck. Why can't we get a small turbo diesel in the U.S.? Power, better gas mileage, and it can haul all my stuff - perfect.

They most likely won't pass emissions. Mercedes-Dodge has their new larger van out.I believe the Mercedes with the turbo diesel gets over 30 mpg.

What want to know is what causes the pitchpoll

If you watch closely it looks like something (spinnaker poll?) breaks and drops into the water immediatly before the pitchpoll occurs.

Gareth

What caused it? Nothing more than a HUGE gust from behind... that's it!







To answer a few other questions posted here... no, not a proto type of the next Hobie... just a Tiger as the post title said. Yeah they had the jib off on that run... it was smokin windy and gusty.



No the sinnaker pole didn't break off. Not even after the pitch. By the way, the pole is there because it has to be for sheeting the jib on the self tacker system. They used the jib on other runs.



Do we have more footage (at Hobie Cat USA)? No this clip was hijacked from a site in Europe. I suppose Nissan or Hobie Cat Europe has more and will share at a later date.

Did any one else notice that the dagger boards were in upside down in one of the shots? I figured they were just filling the slot. Ther board head would make the slot virtually solid in the bottom of the hull that way. Trying all kinds of different speed ideas I suspect.

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I second that....I have a Nissan truck nearly identical to that in the video - but mine is gas and gets a sad 19/15mpg.

The U.S. is so far behind Western Europe on terms of fuel efficient, functional vehicles that we look like a joke. I have a similar truck, too, and towing more than one boat with a six cyl. gas-powered vehicle does not go well, particularly if it's windy or hilly. Wouldn't it be great to get better performance and better gas mileage? Even a 6-liter diesel Ford F-250 gets 20 mpg. Imagine what a small turbo-diesel truck would get.

I had an '81 Datsun pickup with a diesel - it was a while ago, but I remember getting some really good mileage. With biodiesel becoming more and more available, we're looking at a diesel engine for our next purchase to bridge between our gas-hungry SUV and our someday-hydrogen car. Jeb Bush has announced he wants Florida to be the first state on a hydrogen economy. They just added hydrogen airport vehicles and a fueling station at Orlando airport.

I agree that it is odd we don't have options here that we had 25 years ago... Datsun became Nissan in the early 80s I think...

Hey Matt - how's that for a hijacked thread. I bet you thought we'd be talking about the boat! We want the Hobie truck!

okay, yes... I admit it - I'd want the triple-boat trailer and the cool boat graphics, too.

VW Toureg V10 Tubro Deisel SUV. It is sold in nearly all states 'cept CA, NY and ??

Mike.

Being non USA based, why ?


Surely you just cross a state line and buy it there...?