Hobie Time Machine

I think Hobie are marketing the Adventure Island all wrong. They are selling these machines on the basis that they are are little trimarans that are versatile enough to be used as a kayak should the owner ever feel the need. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
What Hobie has here is a time machine far better than anything I have experienced in my lifetime and they should market it as such...
I am going on 60 years and like most my age dream re-capture my youth that insidiously slips into the background as the family around you grows up and towards their own separate lives. You look around one day and find that whilst helping your family to grow into their futures, you have let your own slip away. This happened to me and 12 months back I came to the conclusion that there is a time and place for everything and the youthful energetic full part of my life is well and truly passed. Sure I still walk the dog and ride fast motorbikes together with good friends, but my life had become a mostly passive one full of memories rather than full of dreams for the future. Then I met Mr. Hobie.
The name of Adventure Island is well named for indeed it is a stepping stone straight into a brighter more active future. Mickey of this forum and I stumbled on the Adventure Island really by chance and thought it might be a pleasant diversion but it has become far far more than that. It has become the fountain of youth.
I rang Mickey yesterday to tell him that for the first time in 25 years together with my son-in-law that sails a sailboard,I was going to get the original windsurfer out and see if I can still sail her in the Gippsland Lakes. Mickey was excited and agreed to meet us down in Paynesville together with his AI 'Wet Dreams'. The short of it is that the wind was a good 15 knots and I did a lot of swimming but also got to ride the board for a couple of hours also. My arms, my gluteous maximus muscles and my legs all got the best work-out they have had for years. Mickey had a ball sailing around me, and my son-in-law piked out as he declared it too windy for him. Now that's youth for you that yet doesn't know how little time it has left to enjoy the spoils of it.
My point is that the AI for me has indeed been a time machine thrusting me back years into a time when burning energy and enjoying outdoor pursuits was important. And it is soooo good at that.
A new owner finds him/herself with a competent little sailing craft that is itself very stable and requiring little energy at all to run it. For your money though you also get a free kayak that initially doesn't seem to matter much, but once used a few times becomes a vehicle to exercise both your arms and legs on, swim from and in the future (at least for me) to fish from. Initially I used it solely with the Mirage Drive which I love as I found the paddling hard to master but now am mixing the both up a bit. It is itself incentive enough to go visit wilderness rivers on which to explore. With summer here, I have found myself slipping into the river near where I live where I paddle and with the bow line loop around my neck and shoulders am swimming whilst towing the AI along. My river runs through my town and has walkers, bicycle riders, dog walkers and now one silly old guy who is swimming along towing his kayak behind. I am now find myself getting fit having the maximum amount of fun and so my level of exercise is increasing. Mickey is the same. He jumped at the chance of a sail yesterday and energy expended and the laughter coming from of us both was a true indication of the years that have been stripped away. We are now dragging our brides of many years back to dancing, we play sport we thought we would not do again I attribute much of this re-gained enthusiasm and energy directly to the ownership of the Hobie Adventure Island Time Machine....Pirate