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 ...

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 ...

BREWERTON, N.Y. — If you’re looking for some fun out on Oneida Lake, you might want to try a pedal kayak. Hobie Mirage Pedal Kayaks, which are hands-free, are available at South Bay Sail and Kayak.

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 ...

More than 150 Hobie Cat sailors are scheduled to compete in this weekend’s 36th annual Hobie Cat Fleet 204 Annual Madcatter Sailing Regatta, based at Oneida Shores County Park on Oneida Lake. Sailors ...

Retro is always cool. Cars, motorcycles, bikes, you name it, there’s just something better about the 80s that we’re missing today. Thankfully, at the NOOD we’ve got the spliff-like Hobie 33s, a boat ...

Bass Pro Shops announced September 24, 2025, that it has acquired Hobie, the storied watersports brand best known for its MirageDrive pedal kayaks and sailing catamarans. Hobie will join White River ...

Callused hands have shaped boards for decades at the San Juan Capistrano workshop of Hobie Designs Inc., a pioneer in the quintessentially Southern California surf industry. But increasingly those ...

Hobie Alter, whose innovations helped thousands of people go surfing and sailing, died in California on Saturday at age 80. In the 1950s, Alter helped perfect a foam-core surfboard that revolutionized ...

SSG Capital Advisors served as the investment banker to Hobie Cat Company II, LLC (Hobie) in the sale of substantially all assets to Bass Pro, LLC (“Bass Pro Shops”). The transaction closed in ...