How good is Hobie Sailing! The word is in from the Hobie Family, and we can confirm that the 2022 Hobie 14, Women & Youth State Championships, along with the inaugural Hobie Dragoon Australian National Championships, was unarguably a glorious success! And after what was an awesome presentation night up at the Vincentia Country Club,…
Category Archives: Match Reports
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Jun
Jun
The Bad News Regatta has been one of the largest winter regattas of Hobie sailing in Australia. Originally started back in the 1960’s prior to Hobies even being invented. The ‘Top Cat of the Alley’ and the ‘Currumbin Marathon’ was sailed the 2nd week end in June over what was then the Queens Birthday long…
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Apr
Apr
The 2021 Queensland Hobie State Titles, Lake Cootharaba, took place on the golden waters of Lake Cootharaba on the Sunshine Coast, saw a gusty, 20knot + SE blowing consistently across the lake. With a low developing off the coast further North is was wet and wild conditions. With many choc-tops cemented on the head of…
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Mar
Mar
The Victorian Hobie Cat Association, in conjunction with Safety Beach Sailing Club and Nicholas Lynch Real Estate, put on another fabulous State Titles in the deep south of the state that is the Mornington Peninsula. In what were light and very shifty conditions (the absolute DREAM for any Hobie sailor), the race management team managed…
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Mar
Mar
A big thanks to Rowdy for the great story below: An excellent weekend of Hobie racing at Lake Wendouree. Saturday was a hot windless day, not a cloud in the sky, we all spent the whole day catching up with each other telling stories over a few drinks on the bar. At exactly 430pm the…
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Mar
Mar
Plenty of colour and action at the Hobie 16 State Championships in Western Australia The Hobie 16 class is thriving in Western Australia and thirty-two boats contested the State Championships on the first weekend in March, hosted by Nedlands Yacht Club on the Swan River in Perth. Sailed in teams of two, the sixty-four sailors…