With gas hovering around $5 a gallon and the green movement in full swing, what better way to access hard-to-reach surf spots than with a sailing kayak? After months of ogling over them online and ...

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 ...

Retro is always cool. Cars, motorcycles, bikes, you name it, there’s just something better about the 80s that we’re missing today. Thankfully, at the NOOD we’ve got the spliff-like Hobie 33s, a boat ...

The gusts were 20 knots and climbing. The sea was a whipped, white-capped froth. Kayak Fish lens man Aaron Schmidt and I were aboard a borrowed Hobie Mirage Tandem Island a long mile off a stony line ...

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 ...

Live slow, sail fast—that’s the Hobie way of life. Around 180 sailors from as far away as California, Florida, and Puerto Rico are putting that motto to the test at the 50th annual Madcatter Regatta, ...

'For me, it's the best race in the world,' says former Hobie Cat champion Bruce Tardrew MANILA, Philippines – Bruce “Tards” Tardrew, aged 71, knows his sailing, having been on the water since he was ...

In the late 1960s surf-shop owner Hobie Alter (b. 1933) and some friends decided to design a catamaran. Easy to drag down a beach, fun to sail, and costing only $1,000, the Hobie 14 was an instant hit ...

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 ...