Hobie 18
{{Short description|Sailboat class}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Use American English|date=August 2022}}
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|name = Hobie 18
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|designer = Hobie Alter and Phil Edwards
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|location = United States
|year = 1976
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|builder = Hobie Cat
|role = Sailing dinghy One-design racer
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|crew = two
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|draft = {{convert|2.50|ft|m|abbr=on}} with a daggerboard down
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|displacement = {{convert|400|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
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|hull type = catamaran
|construction = fiberglass
|loa = {{convert|18.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|keel type = twin daggerboards
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|rudder type = twin transom-mounted rudders
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|rig type = Bermuda rig
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|sailplan = fractional rigged sloop
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The Hobie 18 is an American catamaran sailboat that was designed by Hobie Alter and Phil Edwards as a one design racer and first built in 1976.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hobie-18|title= Hobie 18 sailboat |access-date= 2 August 2022|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802180702/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hobie-18|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/hobie/18|title= Hobie 18|access-date= 2 August 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802180725/https://sailboat.guide/hobie/18|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hobie-18-magnum|title= Hobie 18 Magnum sailboat |access-date= 2 August 2022|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802180601/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hobie-18-magnum|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/hobie/18-magnum|title= Hobie 18 Magnum|access-date= 2 August 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802180801/https://sailboat.guide/hobie/18-magnum|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/alter-hobie|title= Hobie Alter 1933 - 2014|access-date = 2 August 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802180627/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/alter-hobie|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/hobie-alter|title= Hobie Alter|access-date= 2 August 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802180731/https://sailboat.guide/hobie-alter|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}
Production
The design was built by Hobie Cat in the United States, starting in 1976, but it is now out of production.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/hobie-cat|title = Hobie Cat |access-date = 2 August 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20210521130133/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/hobie-cat|archive-date= 21 May 2021|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/hobie|title= Hobie Cat|access-date= 2 August 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802151850/https://sailboat.guide/hobie|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.hobie.com/xe/en/sail/|title= Sail|access-date= 2 August 2022|author= Hobie Cat|author-link= Hobie Cat|work= hobie.com|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220802160930/https://www.hobie.com/xe/en/sail/|archive-date= 2 August 2022|url-status= live}}
Design
File:Hobie 18 catamaran sailboat 7995.jpg
The Hobie 18 is a sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, The twin hulls have raked stems, near-plumb transoms, twin transom-hung rudders controlled by a single tiller and twin retractable daggerboards. It displaces {{convert|400|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.
The design has a roller furling jib, internally-mounted halyards and adjustable mast spreaders to allow mast adjustments fore-and-aft and abeam while sailing.{{cite web|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pi2nqBeDRKgC&pg=RA3-PA149|title= New Boats - Hobie 18|access-date= 2 August 2022|last= Schieffelin|first= John|work= Boating|date= April 1977}}
The boat has a draft of {{convert|2.50|ft|m|abbr=on}} with a daggerboard extended and {{convert|7|in|cm|abbr=on}} with both retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.
The Hobie 18 Magnum version has hiking wing racks that give a beam of {{convert|12|ft|m|abbr=on}} to allow trapezing crew members more leverage in keeping the boat level.
Operational history
In 1980 America's Cup racer and media mogul Ted Turner was racing the Hobie 18 and said, "it's a terrific boat, why didn't they have these when I was growing up!"{{cite web|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vkRJy5ofYhMC&pg=PA117|title= Ted Turner Talks About The Hobie 18|access-date= 2 August 2022|author= Hobie Cat|author-link= Hobie Cat|work= Yachting|date= September 1980}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [https://archive.today/20220802184711/https://i.redd.it/9jsqua09vua21.jpg Photo of a Hobie 18 Magnum, showing the hiking wings]
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Category:1970s sailboat type designs
Category:One-design sailing classes
Category:Sailboat type designs by Hobie Alter