The Worlds Hobie 16

We share what makes a Worlds Event Hobie 16. These boats are pretty much stock. Most of the race goodies are included when you buy a US or Australian boat. We tweak a few things and set them up to take the abuse of a long event. We did some estimates a few Worlds ago... the typical boat here will see use similar to a full year of hard racing for the typical Hobie race season.

Groundhog Day! Off the Beach!

We are starting to go a bit crazy here. We've been here since early August building boats and preparing. Now we are into the second series, second day... same as yesterday, Hot, Humid and Off the Beach! Repeat... repeat... repeat till August 30th. We have a way to go! During the next series things get a lot more hectic with more racers and more boat changes. During the semi we will be doing the full Worlds boat change every race, so we are enjoying the slow pace for now. Small group... less change-overs.

Series 2 ~ Day 1 Photo Time!

Series one was a blast! Now we are into Series Two which is the Hobie 16 Youth and Hobie 16 Women's classes. So we have pleanty of new faces and photos to look at..We even managed to sneek out onto the race course for some great action.

Just before "OFF THE BEACH"

Guess Who?

Had to share this.....

Photo Page
http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com/p/worlds-photos.html

Afternoon Off The Beach!

Women and Youth Events Underway

GWTF Reports

And the winners are..

1st Rod Waterhouse Kerry Waterhouse  AUS Master

2nd William Edwards Lucinda Edwards RSA Master

3rd Bob Engwirda Worst News AUS Master

1st Anthony Duchatel Evelyn Curtis AUS GrandMaster

2nd Harry Handley Peter Evrard NZL GrandMaster

3rd Bruce Tardrew Sarah Turnbull Aus GrandMaster

More Photos on the Photo Page!

http://hobiechinaworlds.blogspot.com/p/worlds-photos.html

Waterhouse with another 1st

Ya think he won the Masters Overall? Official results are not yet released, but I have my insider's angle on this one... Oh Yeah!

Images Images Images!

A nice selection of images provided by the IHCA and local organizers. From the opening to on the water!

Image Collection

Afternoon Off The Beach!

Hobie Worlds Twitter

Mark roundings and scores right from the committee boat:

http://twitter.com/HobieWorlds

Day 4 Morning Video

Mid Day Off The Beach

Beach Action Day 3

Day 3

We have just finished the first two races and the sailors are back on the beach. Rod Waterhouse placed third in the first, but hoizoned in the second. Double trapping going on. Hot, clear and a PERFECT sailing day.

Funny fact of the day: We did an informal pole of the beach team's combined experience in sailing. Took a few of us a while to count back that far :)  With the nine guys we have here... 297 combined years of sailing and racing.

We are being well protected by members of the Chinese Military Police.

Video blog of the morning to follow shortly!