Missing Hobie Hotlines

On behalf of the Hobie Class Association, I'm trying to amass a complete collection of Hobie Hotline Magazines from the beginning of time (1971) through the last issue published (May/Jun '95)

Here's what's missing:

Everything pre-May 1974
1976 Apr/May
1978 Jan/Feb
1981 Nov/Dec
1982 May/Jun
1982 Nov/Dec (I have a photocopy)
1984 Jul/Aug
1985 Mar/Apr

Any of you old-timers out there willing to part with some old magazines? If not, how about scans or photocopies?

Matt I have mar/apr 85.
send me your address i will mail it to you.

Hi Matt: I am out of town, but will check my copies upon return early next month. Should have several of the copies you are missing. I think I have a complete set, except some were cut up by my son, for show and tell in school. Would be glad to share all except the Bo Derrick, which I may have to keep.

Caleb Tarleton

Matt, do you plan to scan them into PDF format and put them on the web?

Two problems, Jim -

I don't own the copyright. Neither does the class association. While I don't think Hobie Cat Co. (who does own the copyright) would mind, it is an issue (no pun intended) that would need to be addressed.

Time - there are approximately 150 issues from 1971 - 1995. At an average of about 50 pages each, that's 7500 pages to scan (and in some cases repair/clean up). I don't have the proper equipment to handle that volume. It would be an immense task on my little HP flat-bed scanner (without a document feeder).

Sorry.

Wow! Well, okay I see your point. I didn't realize there were so many issues or that they were so big. I was thinking it was more along the line of 20 articles.

Oh well!

I have read the first one of them and I think it's really interesting. Now, I want to read the two others but I have been looking for them and I can't find them.

Could anybody upload them? Why don't create a section including articles and tips?

In the other hand. Hotline magazine is actually being published? Is there a way to get old hotline magazines?

Thanks in advance and, please, forgive my english.

RONY (Madrid, Spain)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/siguecurrito

That would be awesome we could print a issue Read it and leavit it in the Doctors,Dentisit, Office for others to read

Todd

Rony,

I'll scan the second and third installments and post them for you to download when I get home from work today.

The Hobie HOTLINE has not been published since mid-1995. It required too much subsidy from the Hobie Cat Co. and they pulled the plug on it.

It's sucessor has been the Hobie Class News, which you can download at http://www.hobiecat.com/hobieclass. It is put together on a volunteer basis by the Hobie Class Association of North America.

OK. I'm very grateful to you.


RONY (Madrid, Spain)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/siguecurrito

Rony,

The articles are posted now in this thread:

http://www.hobiecat.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=5547#5547

GREAT!!

A lot of thanks, Matt.


RONY (Madrid, Spain)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/siguecurrito

Mary Wells (of catsailor.com) has sent me all of my missing copies - back to Aug-Sept 1971!

Check this out!:


Thanks, Mary!

(All I'm missing now are any issues published between March '71 (the first issue - I have a photocopy of) and Aug-Sept '71)

Wow, Thanks Mary.

I remember sailing my first Hobie 16, a 1976 in 1985. The purchase of my first new Hobie 16 in 1987. I now sail a H-18, 1989 vintage. It would be interesting in reading some old history related to the Hobies.

Some day maybe a Tiger?