Salvage Hobie 12 Catamaran

Article By Shorty


So Christina wanted to take Roger's boat out for a row. I hopped in Randy's boat and rowed behind her. We were meandering down the cove and I saw what looked like a piece of pipe in the water.

If you look at the far left of this picture, about half way up, you can see a small silver horizontal line.

As we got closer, that pipe turned out to be part of the trampoline of a Hobie 12 catamaran that was sunken.

The starboard hull has a serious amount of damage along the bottom, and the internal foam floatation is all that is holding it above water. The port hull is a bit soft, but holds the water out.

Not a single sign of the mast, rigging, or rudders, this boat was either abandoned or blown here over a year ago from tropical storm allison.

As soon as we pulled it ashore the ideas started to fly!

Tim Cowden said "You could restore that have a fun time".

Chuck said "You could mount an outboard in the middle and motor your kids around".

Ken said "You could mount a couple of oar locks here, and here, and have a nice row boat".

Jerry said "You could build a small cabin on top and turn this into a nice beach camper".



Jim said "This is a fine water craft, you need to puncture the other hull and return it to the water".

Richard said "Yea, that way I could run over it with my Chebacco. Then back over it, and run over it again. :)"

Finally Olivia came over to see what I had found, said I had a real treasure and congratulated me on my salvage.

I ran the hull numbers at TX parks, it has never been registered or reported lost. It is a pretty rare Hobie 12 catamaran. Not the Hobie 12 which is a monohull, but a Hobie 12 Catamaran.
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