Talk:Hobie Cat

message: Howdy all,
I'm semi-actively working on this page - feel free to contribute!
Needed stuff:
Intro Paragraph
Hobie History (should be easy to get sources from Hobie website)
Racing (state of racing, divisions and fleets, regattas and championships, Formula entries)
Info on out-of-production boats - 14, 18, maybe Hobie 12 and Holder1 monohulls?
Thanks!
Teejaypea 18:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005

message: The current photo is lame. There are so many awesome pictures of Hobies ripping along raised up on a single hull, they tell the story better than the boring resort pic that the article has now. 
98.245.170.157 (talk) 22:52, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo's Need Work

message: These were very fast sailboats. How come no info on their speed? 
I would not be surprised if they set some records, in their day they were some of the fastest sailboats around. 
Also why no photos of them running with one hull out of the water and the sailor hanging over on a cable hooked to their belt? 
This article is missing some of the most interesting aspects of the Hobie Cat story.
 
98.245.170.157 (talk) 22:40, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Speed

message: This material is taken directly from the Hobicat website!
K. Sargent 20:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: This article only covers Hobie US boats!!!!
 - there is a different range in Europe.
You are correct, although Hobie Australasia & Hobie USA offer a similar product line, Many ( perhaps most) Hobie Europe models are missing. --I20-312 01:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  US bias! 

message: Somebody needs to take a stab at the whole comp tip issue.
:At some point, at least the Hobie 14 (the 16 was almost certainly included) were eligible for a "warranty modification" where the upper section of the mast was replaced by the composite "Comp Tip."  I doubt I have the letter I received from them around 1993 when they reworked the mast on my JT14.  I've tried to find reference to it in other places on line, but all I can find is reference to some accidents with the old H16 in the 70's and the following case: http://www.lawskills.com/case/ga/id/44772/ regarding COAST CATAMARAN CORPORATION et al. v. MANN; and vice versa
:--Bagheera 23:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comp Tip 

message: would be nice to have the years each model was in production and how many were made  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjarthur (talk • contribs) 23:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  production info 

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message: This article has a lot of issues, that are called out in the information boxes at the top when you load it.  I'm trying to fix them.  
I started by working to add links everywhere that they were called out as needed.  I'm also going to be trying to replace the naked links with proper ones, another problem called out. 
As I've worked through it from top to bottom I've also re-written parts that had good information, but were repetitive or sounded like "clipped directly from some promotional marketing material". 
There is still a lot of work to do.  
Another change I think would be useful, which I'm not going to delve into right now, is improvements to the table.   It's a great resource.    There is a somewhat awkward paragraph listing what year about 10 Hobie Cats were release in.  That seems like it would be a good additional column for the table.   Ditto for "units produced". 
At some point when that's worked on it might also make sense to separate out the fewer monohulls and trimarans into a separate table for clarity.   Eventually it would be good to have (also) another table for all the rotomolded kayaks and such. 
ZeroXero (talk) 20:50, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding links and working on the problems with this article