Tracking down Hobie 33's

[SailfastDrinkhard]

sail number boat name owner club home town





   60048


              Bandit


             Bruce Huddleston


                                NCYC


                                Sylvania, Ohio, USA


 


 




 


46


Barbarella


Jim Blakewell


Oklahoma City Boat Club


Okc, Ok, USA


 


 




 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 




 


USA 32571


Best Boat EVER


Than Dykstra


Grand Traverse Yacht Club


Traverse City, MI, USA


 


 




 


USA 33


Hobie1 Kenobi


Adam Prettyman


Grand Traverse YAcht Club


Williamsburg, MI, USA


 


 




 


77520


Holy Toledo


Timothy Andrews


North Cape


Sylvania, OH, USA


 


 




 


188


Hot Knots


Chuck Watson


Frenchman's Bay YC


Uxbridge, Ont, CAN


 


 




 


32304


Jonathan Swift


Ron Nolan


Perry Yacht Club


Louisburg, Kansas, USA


 


 




 


41


KAOS


Rich Brew


Rudder Club


Jacksonville, Florida, USA


 


 




 


31945


Myasasaur


Craig & Deborah Wilusz


FWYC, BBSC, SSS


Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA


 


 




 


USA 3113


MYRAGE


Christian Schaumloffel


StormTC HamptonYC


Virginia Beach, VA, USA


 


 




 


31694


Pink Panther


Al Michaud


Monroe Boat Club


Monroe, MI, USA


 


 





Scott Maust in Pigeon, MI used to have one but I don't think he does any longer.

Peter Hopkins has "no brakes" sail number 102 is in New Orleans LA;  and there's a no longer used Hobie 33 Pineapple Express lying in New Orleans too.

Steve Attard is on his third hull and sails out of North Cape Yacht Club, La Salle MI. started with "leaving las vegas" then "viva las vegas" now "rhumbline"

 

[hoofhearted]

31945 is now owned by "Pink Spinnaker"  and missed by Craig and Deborah. 

There is one for sale at Fairhope YC, Fairhope , Alabama.  The   Olympic Sailing Association at New Orleans has had one donated and is for sale or something.

As for speeds: Upwind 6.4-6.8 was good targets for us on "Myasasaur"  Downwind was best to gybe at angles, and at the 2013 NACs we hit 19.8 on one of the downwind runs with the chute, blade, and full main up (lots of fun) but regular sailing at 7.5 -11 knots downwind was not unusuall at all.

 

[Blitz]

There used to be one called Zap in Washington.  Not sure if it's still in the PNW.

 

[Tom O'Keefe]

Personal favorite is Still Crazy. 

 

[Cal20sailor]

I have hull #185 which was the 3rd to last.  (believe hull #187 was last)

I sailed a few times on Hot Knots when it was out of Muskegon and the owner thought it was the last built (Sail No 188)

 

[Multihauler]

There are 3 to 5 of them in the Alameda Marina (S.F. Bay) dry storage lot.

A friend used to own one of the A.M. boats named "Espresso" (don't know hull number).  He bought it from a guy in Fresno many years ago.  Also, there is another one (not counted in the above) that regularly races on the Bay named "Vitesse Too", that is owned by Grant Hayes.

-MH

 

[PinkSpinnaker]

What kind of speeds are these boats capable of upwind and downwind ??

Got our boat to 19KTS boat speed then the instruments crapped out. Holy Toledo achieved some insane number in the miami to havana race, 26KTS i believe.

 

[Kack]

Spent a lot of time on Mirage (R.I.P) in Hampton.  It was replaced with Myrage.  Christian is racing her in every race possible to get her as fast as the old one.

I think ex Smoke now Gail Force is/was owned by Chuck Eldred and is still on the hard up in Yorktown, VA somewhere 

 

[-Dino]

Got our boat to 19KTS boat speed then the instruments crapped out. Holy Toledo achieved some insane number in the miami to havana race, 26KTS i believe.

26 KTS is screaming - must of been a fun run

 

[jackolantern]

Particularly fun when their tiller was broken and they repaired it with winch handles and sail ties. 

 

[Captain Bastard]

Sol raced on one for the KWRW feeder race with some olympians. He brought the boat to a regatta I was racing in and it was like bringing a gun to a knife fight. They won overall against boats like my J24 and an SR 21 Turbo.

 

[SailfastDrinkhard]

Particularly fun when their tiller was broken and they repaired it with winch handles and sail ties. 

that was us on Viva Las Vegas not Holy Toledo.  cracked it when someone fell on it the first night and needed to keep it from flexing and actually breaking.

Ripping through the gulfstream at around 15 knots sure was a good time.

Would really like to do another hobie sled ride to havana.

 

[Rasputin22]

SYNDICATE out of Puerto Rico cleaned up for years under the CYA rule. 

 

[inhiding]

Wasn't the late, great Larry Klein on a 33 when he drowned.  Early/mid 1990's. 

Anybody know what happened to that boat?

 

[longy]

That boat was no longer a Hobie, it was the test bed for CBTF (?) or whatever they were called.

 

[d'ranger]

Talked to a sailmaker last weekend who used to make the green sails for Soap Opera, was out of the Dallas area then he thought it was taken to the west coast. I think they won a double handed Transpac in it.  Was a while back.  Was fast and easy to spot. 

 

[Kack]

I built a bunch of chainplates for these boats a few years back.  The aluminum ones crap out and the rig falls down and peels the boat apart.  there's a google group of Hobie owners that is pretty busy.  They discuss a lot daily.  Surely they know where more of these things are.

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

I haven't heard if soap opera has been taken off lake ray hubbard, but yeah,  2004 or so transpac winner.. dbl hand

 

[d'ranger]

Just noticed it's entered in the Harvest Moon which starts this Thursday.  If the forecast holds should be a fun ride, there is a Hendo 30 to pace with.  I, having gotten older and a bit smarter am on a much bigger boat. 

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

Just noticed it's entered in the Harvest Moon which starts this Thursday.  If the forecast holds should be a fun ride, there is a Hendo 30 to pace with.  I, having gotten older and a bit smarter am on a much bigger boat. 

yeah, i see it's done well in a bunch of the harvest moons..    Ray Hubbard  was way to small and an insult to that boat..  probably down in clearwater now..