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05-12-2022, 05:53 AM #16
Yea sailing at night had to be trip!! But The Atlantic coast there are always Lights ashore to Navagate by. Imagine Sailing 1000 Miles from Florida to Virginia Beach Va in 4 Days 11 hours on a 16ft Hobi Cat!!.
1980 9 Hobie 16 Team Peabody's (New Zealand); Rob Perrin / Rob Jeavouns / Andy Stagg 24-hour format: Total elapsed time for winner: 4 days, 11 hours, 49 minutes
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05-13-2022, 06:54 AM #17
Trailer is almost 5K. It is a rich man's sport now.
Sail boats have always intrigued me. There was a Hobi sitting in a barn I used to pass every day for years. Kind of wished I would have stopped to look at it. But around here they are useless unless you live on one of the big oxbow lakes and have a windy day.
And then you better have a paddle! LOL!
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05-13-2022, 07:11 AM #18
Boating at night... Nothing to it.
We used to camp out on a full moon just to ski and kneeboard all night long! I had a kill switch for the anchor light (front nav still on) there was no glare so we could tell when someone took a spill. Also has someone with a Q Beam when we needed it. We called it "Night Waking" LOL!
Also fished a lot at night from running lines, to fishing under the lights.
Now with night vision ... GPS, it would be easy.
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05-13-2022, 07:39 AM #19
Apples and Pamagranets!! Sailing the Atlantic Ocean at Night on a 16ft Hobi with only Two/Three people is far from a cake walk or Sking at Night on a lake. 83 was the last 24 Hr format. After that they started the mandatory Check Points and lay overs. And after 84 is when everything changed. 20" and under the technology was advancing the 16Ft Hobi became a Dinosaur and everything reevolved from there To 20ft and above. Thats when its popularity started to deminish and the radio stations no longer showed interest and the rest is History. In Todays world The Boats take as long to sail one 100 Mile leg of the race as it took them to Travel the whole 1000 Miles back in the early days.
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05-23-2022, 11:52 AM #20Member
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05-24-2022, 02:07 AM #21Screaming And Flying!
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05-24-2022, 07:10 AM #22
Why dont you reach out to them and inquire? As I have no interest in Catamarands. But th company is based in the Netherlands. Im sure to keep costs down they are most lokely made in Varrious locations to keep costs down. The other interesting thing is MACRA stands for North American Catamaran Racing Association. Sense you sparked my interest no where does Thailand get mentioned in any of the NACRA links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacra_F18_Infusion
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05-24-2022, 07:34 AM #23Screaming And Flying!
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I know because my wife is a Nacra dealer in Singapore, once the dutch bought them they left Socal and built a new range, they have only been built in Thailand and I know the guys doing it.
All the Morrelli and Melvin boats are the new Dutch ones and built in Thailand, I guess they dont want to broadcast it.
They do the masts/beams in Holland for some silly reason so stuff gets shipped all over the world.
The last things built in socal were the old wide deck 20's, popular and half the price on the replacement carbon 20
Most all silly expensive now, when the C20 was introduced a few years ago I think it was almost USD50k delivered in Cal.Last edited by powerabout; 05-24-2022 at 07:48 AM.
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