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With more than 30,000 boats shipped, [3] the Aqua was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2001, and is still in production today. The original Aqua cat 12 was modified to an improved Aqua Cat 12.5 and is also available as an Aqua Cat 14 Catamaran which features upturned hulls and is available in an easier sailing resort model.
The company received a government contract for 3000 boats in 1957. Inspectors expecting a payoff began rejecting boats the company made when they received no compensation. At the end of the year, Correct Craft had delivered 2,200 approved boats but had 600 rejects on hand. The chief inspector returned 40 of the previously accepted boats.
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Hobie Alter sold the Hobie Cat Company to the Coleman Company in 1975. In 1982, Coast Catamaran (The official name of the Hobie Cat Company at that time) bought dinghy company Vagabond and its line of dinghy designs from Ron Holder and produced a series of dinghies (Hobie Hawk, Hobie Holder 12, Hobie Holder 14, Hobie Holder 17 & Hobie Holder 20) and monohulls in the 1980s and 1990s, including ...
Altogether, one hundred copies of the boat (dubbed the "Scarab 38KV Miami Vice Edition") were built by Wellcraft. [5] The Miami Vice graphics and color scheme, which included turquoise, aqua, and orchid, was available by special order on any model Scarab from 20–38 feet.
The Atlantic City is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of solid laminate fabmat (stitched fiberglass fabric), with wood trim. It is a gaff rigged catboat with aluminum spars. The hull has a plumb stem , an angled transom , a shallow-draft, transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller or optional wheel and a retractable weighted ...
Later examples of the boat, between 1980 and 1985 are fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 3GM diesel engine of 21 hp (16 kW). [6] The catboat version has simple rigging with only a forestay on the mast and the mainsheet for controlling the sail. Factory standard equipment includes a boat hook, fog horn, fire extinguisher and life jackets. [3]
Good Old Boat magazine: Volume 4, Number 1, January/February 2001. Sail magazine, August 2004, pages 54–57. Heart of GLASS: Fiberglass Boats And The Men Who Made Them by Daniel Spurr, pages 244–250. The World's Best Sailboats Volume II, by Ferenc Máté. Albatross Publishing House, 2003. Best Boats to Build or Buy, by Ferenc Máté ...