Anti-Hobie sentiment?

[Willy]

No doubt, Hobie's are super cool.

However, there is something within me that boils in my gut as one scoots by.

At first I thought...what's that smell? Jealously? Is that coming from my boat?
Then I realized it. It was the look on the face of the Hobie guy.

It's the same look on the face of the Prius guy as he drives by you in the carpool lane, all by himself;
chin just a little higher...lips slightly curled back into a super self satisfied sneer.

Did he just raise a pinky as he adjusted that rudder!?!

He's not doing it on purpose.
He does it when he's alone too.
He doesn't know he's doing it at all.
Let him be.

As I chug along, burning gas, cursing the guy rigging up his poles as he's going forward into the current...I realize the smell is coming from my boat.

Meh.
Curse you Hobie guy.

Willy

[sandydiego]

I am just happy to be out on the water fishing off a floating chunk of plastic guys.

[TCS]

Classic post Willy! The smog of the La Jolla's been getting better, but it's being quickly replace by a big cloud of smug!

btw. just bought and adventure, working on the pinky flex.

[walrus]

Basically the way I see it, it doesn't matter if you peddle or paddle. I don't care if your kayka is plastic or animal skins.

When you're kayak is full of fish, I just want to know what you're doing to catch the fish.

[Spyder]

I would like to give a Hobie a test drive. I have been paddling a Cobra F&D for years now and although I like the stability and capacity, my shoulders and back and killing me by the time I get off the water. Where is the nearest dealer in SD?

[Holy Mackerel]

Originally Posted by Spyder

Where is the nearest dealer in SD?

OEX Oceanside, support my good friend Nate, and BWE sponsor...!

http://www.oexoceanside.com/

Fastlane is cool too.

[steamroll]

Thanks Chris

[tagyak]

Originally Posted by Willy

No doubt, Hobie's are super cool.

However, there is something within me that boils in my gut as one scoots by.

At first I thought...what's that smell? Jealously? Is that coming from my boat?
Then I realized it. It was the look on the face of the Hobie guy.

It's the same look on the face of the Prius guy as he drives by you in the carpool lane, all by himself;
chin just a little higher...lips slightly curled back into a super self satisfied sneer.

Did he just raise a pinky as he adjusted that rudder!?!

He's not doing it on purpose.
He does it when he's alone too.
He doesn't know he's doing it at all.
Let him be.

As I chug along, burning gas, cursing the guy rigging up his poles as he's going forward into the current...I realize the smell is coming from my boat.

Meh.
Curse you Hobie guy.

Willy

thanks willy for your post.
it reminds me of when stinkymatt and i were first getting into this kayak thing and i was the one saying that we should get the hobie. instead stinkymatt convinced me that we should get the paddle kayak, so i got mine first. then stinkymatt got his hobie!!!
went to newport and watched stinkymatt catch fish while peddling and i was paddling trying to fish and keep up.
that was it, my marauder went onto C.L. and i searched for my hobie. i haven't looked back since.
for me it is all about comfort and laziness to an extent. my mother always said "why work harder, when you can work smarter".

[Billy V]

A couple of years ago I was out fishing off LJ in my Hobie Revo with 2 other friend that were on a Tarpon 16, and a Scupper Pro.

We were about a mile and a half out fishing a little deeper when the worst Santa Anna I ever saw blew up out of nowhere.

The first thing we notice was all the wind stopped suddenly and then it changed directions to offshore and then we could hear it coming.

- You could see the ripples build over the glass flat water until there were 3 ft. wind waves spaced a few feet apart.
25-30 mph winds no BS. You could barely turn the kayak around without flipping.

As it was all happening I saw 3 lime green rental kayaks blow by me, and past the Children's Pool. My friend on the Scupper Pro made a dash for the kelp and hung onto the stringers until the lifeguards picked him up and towed his kayak into shore. The same happened to the 6 female Tourist.

When I look around to see if anybody else was around I saw this guy on a Yellow Revo Yo- Yoing as if it was just another day. He was using his peddles to stay in place, and the rudder to make adjustments to his position.
(Take a wild guess who this was)

I asked if he was going to head back in and he said "No problem we got the peddles" lmao So we stayed a bit longer (just because we could) and after a short while started to head back to the shores.
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All the awhile I had been watching my friend on the Tarpon 16 try his best to make headway. It was very difficult to watch him struggle, and he was becoming exhausted. He said his hands were numb from the wind splashing water on his hands and blowing away his insulation layer of air.

-So with the helicopter circling above, the SD PD boat, and Lifeguards on boats and jetskis asking - we returned to shore.

- I grabbed the bow handle on his tarpon and towed him in a little ways to give him a rest and allow his hands to recover. Once we got to the reserve buoys he was able to return under his own power.
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I wouldn't recommend that anybody deliberately try this, but we were out there when it happened and made the best of it.

I got a chance to give a real life torture test to my Hobie under the worst condition possible and it passed with flying colors.

"No Problem we got the peddles"