Catsailor.com You gotta see this Hobie!
Posted By: Clayton You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/11/06 04:07 PM
Check out this Hobie 16. Plenty of apparent wind.
Clayton
Posted By: Jake Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/11/06 04:27 PM
Boy, that thing would be a hat shredder!
Posted By: tshan Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/11/06 05:27 PM
Boy, that thing would be a hat shredder!
Don't let The Chuck (and his hat) get close to it.
Posted By: David Parker Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/11/06 10:54 PM
You gotta wonder, could you sail behind him on a windless day? Maybe if he dragged a drouge chute to keep his speed down you could just tack back and forth behind him. Gives apparent wind a new meaning.
Posted By: pitchpoledave Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 02:28 AM
thing will probably pitch pole over backwards. Should have used a Nacra. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
ok, ok, just kidding!
Posted By: Jake Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 02:54 AM
thing will probably pitch pole over backwards. Should have used a Nacra. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
ok, ok, just kidding!
Watch this wreck! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: bullswan Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 11:47 AM
How does it steer? No connection I can see to the rudders.... and no rudder for the fan housing...
"LOOK OUT!!!!!"
Posted By: Jake Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 11:48 AM
Looks like some sort of line going to the cross bar.
Posted By: tami Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 03:01 PM
Y'all yankees are obviously not in the know about airboats.
If an airboat decelerates suddenly, and if it's not built with a really long bow, it will pitch forward. That's just how they are.
So this poor craft is DOUBLY compromised.
Clayton, do please tell me that this is not a Cajun-built craft, even a total coona$$ should know better...
hee hee,
tami
Posted By: Clayton Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 03:44 PM
Nope, we cajuns know how to build a real air boat and that ain't it. Could be interesting though, like a vegamatic on "Hulk" steroids. Kinda nuts with no guards <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Clayton
Posted By: catman Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 05:13 PM
Kinda nuts with no guards
Just Kinda?? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: davidtilley Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 07:38 PM
Airboat - take a 400 hp V8 CAST IRON block and mount it about five feet up, behind you, on a short, wide, open aluminum boat(with the buoyancy foam removed - dont want it melting when you spill all that 100 octane). Put a big propeller on it, and use it primarily to catch frogs. Apparently the frogs don't run away - I figure they are too amazed.
Posted By: tami Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 10:11 PM
Ah Dave, you take the fun out of everything, dang it...
but come to think, when I've been frog catching, it was with a 3hp o.b. on the back of a short, wide, open aluminum boat...
hey, you misspelled 'aluminIum'
t.
Posted By: mmiller Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/12/06 10:47 PM
This is another Cajun design isn't it? 6 Cylinder, lead block.
Posted By: davidtilley Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/13/06 12:51 AM
Must be. Smart fella, building a cat. (You can tell it is a cat, because the monohull would have the lead strapped underneath in the water, serving no purpose with the electrolysis in seawater).
Posted By: Jake Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/13/06 02:35 AM
I'm not sure what's scarier...the lawn chair or the fact that I used to have hair like that.
Posted By: Clayton Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/13/06 01:44 PM
Hey, he used to be my neighbor!!! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> So thats where my chair went! I'd better get my cut of the royalties...
Yep Dave, you know how to build a frog giggin' boat. $20K rig to catch a frog... now thats smart! Still they do it all the time. Now if they would only realize all they need to do is walk out back to the rice field with a quartz light and just pick them up. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Clayton
Posted By: Jake Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/26/06 11:46 PM
Posted By: pitchpoledave Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/27/06 12:16 AM
Great, I get to pitchpole over backwards with a big fan behind my head.
Posted By: arbo06 Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/27/06 12:30 AM
David T,
I think you meant Fart Smella.
Posted By: warbird Re: You gotta see this Hobie! - 07/29/06 05:34 AM
Okay, tghis is available on NZ TradeMe for only $9,000 : )
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