Am taking into consideration the outfitter (2-seater) or the Adventure Island with sail kit. I can find videos and a few reviews, but before I right I'd like to make sure it's a comfortable ride for leggy people.

I'd introduce that you start with the page below for the state of Virginia and simply conjunction all of the dealers, looking for one who sells your Hobie kayak. Once you find one tell them that a exam paddle is required before you'll consider committing to a purchase.

CB | Apr 22, 2009

Sailing to Catalina the Hobie Adventure Island Way- HD

We sailed four Island kayaks to the Catalina: two Hobie Mirage Tandem Island kayaks and two Hobie Mirage lone Island kayaks. We set sail from ...

Trolling off shore, Hobie Adventure Island

This video despatch covers 2 days of sailing off shore in high winds & seas, trolling lures the whole way. I very nearly got blown out to sea ...

Pirate on Hobie Adventure Island at Mallacoota

Sailing Hobie Adventure Island at Mallacoota

Hobie and Windrider Trimarans – A Comparison

Avid bluejacket and cheap trimaran fiend Allen Parducci shares his experiences with the Windrider 16, Windrider 17 and new Hobie Adventure Island Trimarans below. Allen possesses years of daysailing and tent cruising savoir vivre in a mark of parsimonious trimarans, so anyone everything considered one of these models may be interested in what he says about these sailboats. by Allen Parducci

My encounter with unimportant trimarans is restricted to the Windrider 16, Windrider 17, and the Hobie Adventure Island (all three of which I have owned), also infrequent company sailing on folding tris designed by Ian Farrier (F-27, F-31, Sprint), L-7’s designed by Mike Leneman, and divers tris designed by Phil Slocum. Like most comparisons between boats, backsheesh should be inclined first to the use to which the row-boat will be put: whether cruising, day sailing, trailering, socializing, etc. My own preferred use is for inadequate sails out of Marina del Rey, California; but for each of the erstwhile 15 years, I have also spout a month (Nov./Dec.) of striking sailing down in southern Baja California, Mexico....

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Bill's Log: Hobie Island Adventure Trimaran

Those who have loads of bread and don’t guard dividing with it, may regard buying a Hobie Island Adventure Trimaran. She’s a 16’ performance, sit-on-top, lightweight sailing and paddling canoe custom-made with retractable floats; she is also equipped with a Hobie Mirage pedal Tool along section and rudder system. Her dimensions are correspond to to the CLC Mill Streamlet 6.5 trimaran featured in yesterday’s Blog, but she differs considerably in construction and features. The Mill Streamlet is all things considered built by amateurs, either from a plywood kit or from raw materials, whereas the Hobie Island Adventure Trimaran is a unformed, works produced canoe, made through the deal with of injection moulding. The Hobie Island Adventure has several features lacking in the CLC Mill Rill 6.5, the most celebrity adjustment is her retractable floats, which entrust her gang to disgorge the canoe alongside a pontoon and to take action ashore. Unless the proprietor of the Mill Cove modifies her by installing a Hobie Mirage Enthusiasm,...

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