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Richard Buffum l like success stories. This is a success story. It began about the time 1 't ..< some anonymous wag said, " If God meant us to have fiber glass boats, He 1 .. would have planted fiber glass trees. •7 / i...1 As close as I can figure it, this was sniffingly uttered about 1965, when there were still a few yards building wooden boats. Obviously, they were preferred. At the same time a young man named Hobert L. Alter, nicknamed Hoble, was making lightweight surfboards of fiber glass in a quonset hut in Dana Point. That year he went sailing with a friend on a 600-pound catamaran. He was so taken with the experience that, he says. " I went t horile and started building tons of little scale models." Fortunately, he was not intimadated by God's alleged intentions, and by July of 1968. his first fiber glass Hobie Cat was ready. He sold 100 of the 14-foot long. 225-pound catamarans at $1,000 each. Back to Scate Models Ecology and the Hoble Life Style The other day I visited a thoroughly overflowing plant and offices in San Juan Capistrano of Coast Catamaran Co. Hundreds of knife-like, Who should be more concerned than Hobie skippers, crews and colorful hulls were stacked outside in driveways and parking lots. inside, families about the ecological condition of o,ir nation's waterways, lakes and workers were busily constructing hundreds more. seashores. We are in it constantly, sometimes neck deep. Coast Catamaran, of which Hobie Alter is now chairman of the board, We pull into secluded beaches, river banks or lake shores where few automobile vacationers have access t(). We sail over stream, lake and ocean has grown into a major fc,rce in the boating industry, with fiscal 1972 sales bottoms that reflect the condition of the water we are sailing on. The mere of $5.5 million. fact that we chc,sethe HobieCat as our water recreation vehicle is indicative Nationwide, the sailboat business is booming, with an increase of of our purist philosophy. 158% in unit sales of sailboats over 1969. Outboard driven boats fi,r the So why then shouldn't the National Hobie Class Associatic,n take fip as same period earned only a 20% increase, while int,oard unit sales dropped a continuing project, and a most worthwhile catise, the ecology i,f our 27%. streams, lakes and seas. Alter has now returned to his little scale models. One of them rested Of course, ecology starts at home. With the bcmting season well upon atop a bookcase in the spartan office he shares with John P. Kensey, us, let's make waves in the right direction starting tiow by pledging tc, be executive vice president, one of a group of young professional management ambitious and super clean about the ci,ndition of our camping and picnic types he has brought into the business. areas. Co the second mile, clean up the area even thc,ugh we might not No Smell, No Mess have been respi,nsible fc,r the condition we found it in when arriving. The model was of the Mono-Cat, or Hobie 12, a new concept in small Leave it clean as an example to others. boat design. and, in addition, in production methods. The Mono-Cat will Make it a game while day sailing to pick up that beer can or plastic be in production early this month in the firm's new 90.000-square-foot bottle on the first pass 1(the practice might come in handy sc,melday ) and plant in Irvine. deposit it in a refuse container on the beach or docks. Basically, a giant mold of highly polished nickel assists in vacuum- The Hol,ie fleet should appoint an environmental ci,mmittee to look forming of ABS plastic filled with expandable polystyrene bead. The for ways for the fleet to set examples to fellow yachtsmen and boaters. This revolutionary new process makes possible a perfect bonding between the committee should be politically active in local ec(,logy groups (,r iii civic two materials, something heretofore not achieved. lt produces a hull which meetings where the purity of our waterways is at stake. Kensey claims is tougher and more durable than fiber glass. Every good thing, like having a Hobie to sail. should have a worthy Alter described his latest design as "something to fit the pocketbook" cause even though. just a little bit selfishly, we are guarding our own ( retail price: $693 ), "something sexy and light" to meet the burgeoning recreational environment. We at the same time will be leaving our water national demand for small sallboats. world in just a little better condition than we found it and who knows, this No, God didn't make fiber glass trees. but he did make the wind, move might become contagimis and the boating fraternity as a whole which is blowing fair for the sailboat industry. 1. would join in the effort started by our example. As a reminder to one and all, combined with actions and deeds, that as How the 12' "Mono-Cat" Was Named a Hobie Cat owner yoll are an environmentalist, display the ecology The newest Hobie Cat, a twelve-foot model. will be named the Hobie emblem on your boat trailer. sail box or car bumper 042Rl. Mono-Cat. Over 10,000 entries were submitted .t6 Coast Catamaran's Name the Boat" contest. Mr. Gene Doremus of Verone, Pennsylvania, was the first -Mono-Cat" received. His prize will be the first Mono-Cat off the production line, carrying Sail No. 1. to be awarded sometime in early SAHL 9*MAE summer. The most popular name among contest entrants was -Scat," chosen by 800 pei,ple. - Mi,no-Cat" was submitted by 128 people. Mr. Doremus' l\»j• A \-1*. letter preceded the second such entry by two days. *AfAy\-2/ 4-1 .0/ *# The Mono-Cat will join the Hobie Cat 14' and the Hobie Cat 16'.in the Coast Catamaran line. Designed by Hobie Alter, the boat is expected // to b 254infull production by early sunimer. Coast Catamaran has finished construction of a new 87,000 square foot facility in the Irvine Industrial Gene Doremus has been sailing for-two years. H6 plans to name his Complex. near Santa Ana, California. where the boat will be built. new Hobie Mono-Cat -Windfall: The Mono-Cat features include lightweight construction, about 180 The Doremus family, including Gene's wife Roseann. sons Eric and pounds; it fits into the back of a station wagon, is easily sailed and righted Glenn and daughter Jean, are active members of tivo Pennsylvania sailing by anyone weighing over 60 pounds. has a beam of 4', 90 square feet of sail clubs and are Fleet Champions of their Thistle Fleet 150. Doremils is a and draws 4" with centerboard up. Research Geologist SL 2 ! Tenth Annual London Bridge Regatta The Tenth Annual London Bridge Lake Havasu MuItihill Regatta is history ( results Page 14 ). P-Cat and Hobie Cat Skippers • ather annually to soak up some sunshine. enioy the historical scene and nave-a-go at that "other".catamaran; all in good fun of course. Over 240 Pacifica Catamarans and Hobie Cats made a full job for the Lake Havasu Yacht Club and the Hobie Cat Class Association Race Committee. The Regatta Chairman was Mr. Robert McCulloch, Jr. Race Chairman was David P. Shay; Co-Chairman, Bill Jones; Safety Patrol and Co-Chairman, Jess Underhill; Chief Scorer, Keith Fuller.