I was just reading on the US Sailing website and found this:
MULTIHULLS
While traditional sailing is fun, there is nothing like the thrill and excitement of sailing a multihull, big or small. Multihulls come in quite a variety – there are catamarans (those with two hulls) and trimarans (those with three hulls). They also come in many sizes. For example, catamarans can be as small as 9 feet in length and have been built to over 100 feet. Most smaller cats are referred to as beach cats, running in size from about 13 feet to around 21 feet. There are a great many designs and manufacturers of these exciting craft, but most folks just call them all Hobies – sort of like we all used to call our refrigerators "Frigidaires." You might have seen them blasting along shore lines at awesome speeds with the sailors suspended on trapeze wires from the mast. They are small, fast, exciting and very light.

I was just wondering, do most of you who own NACRA's, marstroms, Prindles, Trac, Inter etc. etc. call them hobies?

I own a solcat 18 and a NACRA 5.7 and I dont call either of them a Hobie.

Maby the multihull council could have them change that and compare the monohulls to Frigidaire's.

It's late and i'm probably a little on edge since I havn't gotten the 5.7 wet yet.

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