Hobie Cat 16 Easy
Sailboat
16′ 7″
Catamaran
Since 1969
Overview
- Builder
- Hobie Cat
- Model
- 16 Easy
- Type
- Sailboat
- Category
- Catamaran
- Built
- 1969 on
- Designer
- Hobbart (Hobie) Alter
- Hull material
- GRP (glass reinforced polyester): Sandwich foam fiberglass p
- Rig
- Sloop Marconi fractional
Dimensions
- Length overall
- 16′ 7″ (5.05 m)
- Waterline length
- 15′ 2″ (4.62 m)
- Beam
- 8′ (2.44 m)
- Draft
- 2′ (0.61 m)
- Draft, board or keel up
- 0′ 11″ (0.28 m)
- Displacement
- 320 lb (145 kg)
Power and tanks
- Engine
- No engine
Sails and rig
- Sail area
- 153 sq ft (14.2 m²)
Design ratios
- Sail area / displacement
- 52.3
- Displacement / length
- 41
- Capsize screening
- 4.68
Power from the sails for the boat's weight. Under 16 is modest, 16–20 a typical cruiser, over 20 lively.
How heavy the boat is for its waterline. Under 200 is light, 200–300 moderate, over 300 heavy.
Under 2 is generally considered better for offshore use.
More details
- Appendages
- Hull : asymmetric hulls
- Asymmetric spinnaker area
- 161 ft²
- Capacity
- 529 lb
- Cockpit
- No cockpit
- Construction
- GRP (glass reinforced polyester): Sandwich foam fiberglass polyester
- Country
- United States
- Crew
- 2
- EC design category
- C
- Helm
- Single tiller
- Jib area
- 40 ft²
- Mast configuration
- Fore beam stepped mast
- PY (Portsmouth Yardstick) rating
- 811
- Rigging type
- Sloop Marconi fractional
- Rotating spars
- Yes
- Rudder
- Twin transom hung rudders
- Sailboat collection
- ISAF
- Spars construction
- Aluminum mast and no boom
- Spreaders angle
- No spreader
- Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
- About 11 100 € (2020)
- Standing rigging
- 1x19 strand wire
- Trailerable
- No
- Trapezes
- 2 set(s)
- Unsinkable
- No
- Version
- Easy
Data from boat-specs.com. Check details with the builder before relying on them.