To me the Hobie Pearl is the Hobie Pacific with a new name and a new colour scheme.
There are almost identical in every respect down to using the Tiger hulls with skegs and the same pinhead boomless rig.
The Pacific has been around since at least 2001, I see no reason to expect the Pearl to do better then the Pacific over the years.
Hobie pacific I also wonder what Hobie will do with the Pacific now that they have created an identical internal competition for it ?
