Hobie Fox
July 27 2000 just four days after the memorable victory at Marconi's Piers Race the helm took us out on the Fox.
the Fox in the car park showing clearly the low windage bow line
Gavin Colby rigging the boat
Gavin Colby

describing racing the Fox
the boat with drying jumper but photographed to show hull shape from front
the clear deck layout with the best designed spinnaker bag I have used.
Specification: to conform to iF-20

Length: 6.1m (20 ft)

Beam: 2.6m (8.5 ft)

Mast: 9.5m (31ft 2inches)

Total Weight: 190kg (419 lbs)

Area Main: 18 sq.m. (194 sq.ft.)

Area Jib: 4.85 sq.m. (52sq.ft.)

Spinnaker area 25 sq.m. (269sq.ft.)

Hull construction: sandwich/polyester

Main material: Mylar

Crew: 2-3

Kit: mesh trampoline, Dacron jib, foam battens, 8:1 cunningham, double trapeze, Hobie Harken jib furler.

Hull designed by Nils Bunkenburg, sails by Giorgio Zuccoli, and Hobie extruded aliminium mast made as light as a carbon fibre but not so fragile.
two pictures of the Fox taken at the Piers Race
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