With gas hovering around $5 a gallon and the green movement in full swing, what better way to access hard-to-reach surf spots than with a sailing kayak? After months of ogling over them online and ...

The gusts were 20 knots and climbing. The sea was a whipped, white-capped froth. Kayak Fish lens man Aaron Schmidt and I were aboard a borrowed Hobie Mirage Tandem Island a long mile off a stony line ...

DANA POINT (CBSLA.com) — Thousands grabbed their boards and paddled out past the surf at Doheny State Beach Friday to honor sailing and surfing pioneer Hobie Alter. Friends and family told KCAL9's ...

One hot, muggy evening in July, I joined a dozen members of Hobie Fleet 204 on the south shore of Oneida Lake for a righting drill. As far as sailboats go, Hobie catamarans are light and fast, ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - Sailors throughout the United States are vying for the 2018 Hobie 17 North American Championship and the Hobie Mid-Winter Regional title in the Mississippi Sound. The Ocean ...

At age 52, Korzeniewski has won five North American Hobie Cat sailing championships — the last two with her young, teenage daughter, Erika, aboard as her crew. Next month, she's eyeing the 34th annual ...

July 9, 2007 Hobie is a name that's been associated with innovation in aquatic sports since Hobie Alter started creating boards for the fledgling sport of surfing in his father's garage more than half ...

Fifty years ago, Hobie Alter created the first-ever Hobie Cat catamaran on the stretch of beach in front of Wayne Schafer’s Capo Beach home. Schafer never could have imagined how far his friend’s ...

In the late 1960s surf-shop owner Hobie Alter (b. 1933) and some friends decided to design a catamaran. Easy to drag down a beach, fun to sail, and costing only $1,000, the Hobie 14 was an instant hit ...

The bronze statue looming over Jeff Alter had a serious, focused look on its face while navigating a small sailboat — not on the water, but on land. If Hobie Alter were around to see the massive ...