Cook Islands has claimed top honours at the Pacific Multihull Championship 2025 in Tahiti, with young sailors Edmund ...

Prior to the Hobie Cat, invented by well-known surfboard maker Hobie Alter, sailing was for the elite. It was a sport reserved for members of yacht clubs who had the mega bucks it took to buy a big ...

Curious about catamaran sailing but don't know where to start? Here are four starter boats that'll have you purring. The post ...

DINGHY sailors from around South Africa head to Durban to compete in the upcoming Hobie 14 Nationals incorporating the Laser and Flying Fifteen Regionals over the long weekend. The three-class regatta ...

Fifty years ago, Hobie Alter created the first-ever Hobie Cat catamaran on the stretch of beach in front of Wayne Schafer’s Capo Beach home. Schafer never could have imagined how far his friend’s ...

How a small stretch of sand in Orange County transformed the sailing world … as told by Wayne Penn-Schafer, the man who was there. It’s quiet and glassy out on the reef at Poche. Every 20 minutes or ...

July 9, 2007 Hobie is a name that's been associated with innovation in aquatic sports since Hobie Alter started creating boards for the fledgling sport of surfing in his father's garage more than half ...

Hobie Alter, whose innovations helped thousands of people go surfing and sailing, died in California on Saturday at age 80. In the 1950s, Alter helped perfect a foam-core surfboard that revolutionized ...