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The History of Fleet 274
| Hobie Racing was popularized in the Philippines in the early 80's when Hobie 14s were produced here. Around 100 boats were produced. The height of Hobie racing has to be in 1984 when the World Hobie 14 Championships were held at Puerto Azul. | Click
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Unfortunately, in late 1985 a fire destroyed all the moulds, and many of the boats that had just competed in the World Championships. Hobie Philippines collapsed financially because of the fire.
The fleet was thrown into the doldrums after that, and only a few people bought Hobie 16's between 1985 and 1996.
In 1996 Taal
Lake Yacht Club was
started and it tried to build up the Hobie 16 fleet. The effort
was
successful. Today there are around 30 Hobie 16s at TLYC, and these form
the core of several events that are undertaken throughout the
year.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY
The first Hobie
16 National Championship was
held in Early February of 1997. Championships have been held at
Taal
Lake Yacht Club every First weekend in February since then.
In 2003, it changed
to
January to accomodate the Philippine Hobie Challenge dates.
ThePhilippine
Hobie Challenge was
started in 2000. It is a long distance race that covers around
250
miles in 5 days. Every year, the course has been different. The
focus
has been good racing, but also, the race focuses on showing off the
natural
splendor of the Philippines. Interestingly, it is beginning to attract
other Yachts who are eager to volunteer as support craft and come along
just for the trip.
March/April
The
Hobie fleet has had a strong showing in past years as a class in the Presidents
Cup
Regatta. The
PCR is generally considered the Philippines largest International
regatta,
with up to a hundred boats participating. The PCR has traditionally
been
held Easter week, but sometimes it is held a week earlier, or later.
This is also a prime month for special events and in 2002 we held the Suunto Regatta in Boracay.
April
A special addition to
our
calendar of "special events" was the "Smart
Clubman" event.
We would like to resurect this.
May- October
The TLYC
Club Championship is a compilation of the races from May to
September
or October. It was first started in 2005.
In 2004, we started a Ladies Helm Regatta. We didn't have any shortage, because so many of the crews are women. Getting them to sail the boat and make their skippers work was easy!
Hopefully, we will see the day when we have a whole fleet of women skippers, with women as crew.
November
Puerto Galera Yacht Club gives a good party, and the All Souls Day Regatta is a great way to start the busiest season of the year for the Hobie Sailors. November also sees racing at Punta Fuego, and Subic.
In November, we also have the Round Taal Volcano race. So far it ranks as the "most popular" event. The uniqueness of the event (imagine sailing around a Volcano island!) is unparalleled. The wind at that time of the year is manageable by most sailors. Add this to the ease of getting to the regatta site, low cost of accommodation in good facilities, and the camaraderie at the evening party, and we have the makings of an event that is sure to stay. It will only be limited by the availability of boats!
Monthly
Racing
On the months when
there
are no big events, we have racing on the second Sunday of the month.
Monthly
Racing
Click on the "MonthlyARCHIVES" and get a list of pages of
results and
pictures.
To find out more about how you can get into the sport, join events, provide sponsorship or avail of advertising opportunities, e-mail peter@sailing.org.ph
