The Hobie Tiger or Hobie Tiger 18, is a French
catamaran
A Formula 16 beachable catamaran
Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States
A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stab ...
sailboat
A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture.
Types
Although sailboat terminology ...
that was designed by
Hobie Cat Europe
Hobie is a name or nickname.
People with the given name
* Hobie Call (born 1977), American obstacle course racer
* Hobie Verhulst (born 1993), Dutch professional footballer
People with the nickname
* Hobart Alter (1933–2014), creator of th ...
as a
Formula 18
The Formula 18 class, abbreviated F18, is a non-foiling, restricted development, formula-design sport catamaran class. It was started in the early 1990s and quickly grew getting class recognition by World Sailing, with large racing fleets all ov ...
racer and first built in 1995.
The boat is an
International Sailing Federation
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International may also refer to:
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* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
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recognized international class.
Production
The design was built by
Hobie Cat Europe
Hobie is a name or nickname.
People with the given name
* Hobie Call (born 1977), American obstacle course racer
* Hobie Verhulst (born 1993), Dutch professional footballer
People with the nickname
* Hobart Alter (1933–2014), creator of th ...
in France, starting in 1995 and later by the parent company
Hobie Cat
Hobie Cat is a company that manufactures sailing catamarans, surfboards, sailboats, kayaks, stand-up paddle boards, and pedalboards as the Hobie Cat Company. It was founded in 1961 by Hobart Alter, who originally manufactured surfboards. Its li ...
in the United States in 2001, but it is now out of production.
Design
![HobieCatTiger SUVLM06 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/HobieCatTiger_SUVLM06_3.jpg)
The Hobie Tiger is a
sailing dinghy
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls:
* the sails
* the foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the Moth)
* the trim (forward/rear angle of ...
, with the twin hulls built predominantly of
polyester
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fiberglass
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sandwich with a foam core.
The hulls have
plumb stem
The stem is the most forward part of a boat or ship's bow and is an extension of the keel itself. It is often found on wooden boats or ships, but not exclusively.
Description
The stem is the curved edge stretching from the keel below, up to ...
s and
transoms, transom-hung
rudder
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s controlled by a single
tiller
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and twin retractable
daggerboard
A daggerboard is a retractable centreboard used by various sailing craft. While other types of centreboard may pivot to retract, a daggerboard slides in a casing. The shape of the daggerboard converts the forward motion into a windward lift, cou ...
s. It has a
fractional sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
rig with
aluminum
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spars, including a rotating mast, stepped on the fore beam. The rigging is wire. It displaces and is normally sailed by a crew of two
sailor
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The profession of the s ...
s, both of whom are provided with
trapezes to balance the boat.
The boat has a draft of with a daggerboard extended and with both retracted, allowing operation in shallow water,
beaching or ground transportation on a
trailer.
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an
asymmetrical spinnaker An asymmetrical spinnaker is a sail used when sailing downwind. Also known as an "asym", "aspin", or "A-sail" it can be described as a cross between a genoa jib and a spinnaker. It is asymmetric like a genoa, but, the asymmetrical spinnaker is not ...
of .
The design has a
Portsmouth Yardstick
The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) or Portsmouth handicap scheme is a term used for a number of related systems of empirical handicapping used primarily in small sailboat racing.
The handicap is applied to the time taken to sail any course, and the han ...
RYA PN handicap number of 693.
See also
*
List of multihulls Types
* catamaran = two symmetric hulls
* proa = two asymmetric hulls, reverse-shunting (interchangeable bow/stern)
* trimaran = three hulls
* quadrimaran = four hulls
* pentamaran = five hulls
Pre-modern Austronesian
* ʻalia
* Amatasi
* B ...
*
List of sailing boat types
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans).
Olympic classes
World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing ...
References
External links
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{{Sailing dinghies and skiffs
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Dinghies
1990s sailboat type designs
One-design sailing classes
Sailboat type designs by Hobie Cat Europe
Sailboat types built by Hobie Cat Europe