Western Australia is known as a mecca for wind sports and Busselton is an excellent location for the Pitts Design and Construction 53rd Australian Hobie Cat National Championships. Hosted by Geographe Bay Yacht Club, the event will run from 27 December 2025 to 5 January 2026. Series One invites Hobie 16 teams to contest the…
Category Archives: Hobie Hotshots
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May
May
On the latest Bar Karate – The Sailing Podcast’s episode the three current World Champions from the Hobie Class join the boys for a yarn. Cam Owen & Suzzi Ghent, current Hobie 16 World Champions, along with Hobie 14 World Champion, Paddy Butler, share what they’re doing of their own competitions. Each of them putting…
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Apr
Apr
Entries are OPEN and the Notice of Race is LIVE for the Pitts Design and Construction 53rd Australian Hobie Cat Nationals to be hosted by the HCAWA, with Geographe Bay Yacht Club, in Undalup Country, Busselton, Western Australia. You will not want to miss this event! Our mates from Hobie Team WA have a great…
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Feb
Feb
With great sorrow, we bid farewell to John Stokely Dinsdale, who passed away on February 4, 2025, at the age of 77, surrounded by his family at home. John leaves an immeasurable void in the world of catamaran sailing and in the Hobie community, which owes so much to him. John Dinsdale was a pioneer…
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Jan
Jan
2024 was active for the Hobie class, with regattas, international championships, and growing global participation. Additionally, the Hobie Cat Company went back to building Hobie Cats! Global Highlights Europe Poland & Germany (August): A combined national championship was a competition and training for the upcoming 2025 Hobie Multi Europeans in Ustka, Poland. Italy (July): Hobie…
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Jan
Jan
Hobie Sailors! Well, it’s been a busy year on the Australian Hobie scene! As I’m sure you’re all busy with the sailing season, it’s a good time to recap on the year. Starting the year we were up in Manly, Brisbane at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron for a fantastic Nationals. Held over two series…
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Jan
Jan
Seeking Sailing Instructors for Wildwind, Greece. Wildwind Sailing Holidays have a few spaces available for staff starting mid April for their 2025 Summer Season. With the over 20 catamarans and more than 40 monohulls we have the biggest range of boats in Europe. This along with afternoons regularly blowing over 20 knots and Vassiliki’s town…
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Jan
Jan
Rediscovered and reinstated at the 50th Australian Championships in Jervis Bay, the NSW Hobie Cat Association challenged the other States for Supremacy. In other words, Australian Hobie Sailing’s ‘State of Origin’. After setting the challenge of at the 51st Nationals in Bris-Vegas of the lowest total points of the top-3 teams/helms in the Hobie 16 &…
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Dec
Dec
Dear Hobie Sailors, This letter is coming to you from the ANHCA on behalf of your state Hobie class association. Please note all correspondence regarding meeting minutes, proxy forms and items of general business need to go back to your state association/delegate to be presented at the AGM. Please be advised that the 2024/25 ANHCA…
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Dec
Dec
The stage is set in McCrae, Victoria for one of the most spectacular, most sensationally extravagant Australian Championships for the Hobie Cat Class we have seen Down Under (let alone all around the world) for a very long time. The Hobie Cat Association of Victoria are rapt to confirm the Hobie All Stars band are…