| Hobie Tiger | |
| Insignia: | F18 |
| Insignia Size: | 150px |
| Image Boat: | File:Hobie Tiger catamaran sailboat 8018.jpg |
| Designer: | Hobie Cat Europe |
| Location: | France |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Class: | Formula 18 |
| Builder: | Hobie Cat Europe |
| Role: | Racer |
| Crew: | two |
| Draft: | 2.33feet with a daggerboard down |
| Displacement: | 3970NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | catamaran |
| Construction: | fiberglass |
| Loa: | 18.08feet |
| Beam: | 8.53feet |
| Keel Type: | twin daggerboards |
| Rudder Type: | twin transom-mounted rudders |
| Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
| I: | 18.83feet |
| P: | 28feet |
| Sailplan: | fractional rigged sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 183square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 45square feet |
| Sailarea Gen: | 226square feet |
| Sails Other: | solent 37square feet |
| Sailarea Upwind: | 228square feet |
| Sailarea Downwind: | 409square feet |
| Rya-Pn: | 693 |
The Hobie Tiger or Hobie Tiger 18, is a French catamaran sailboat that was designed by Hobie Cat Europe as a Formula 18 racer and first built in 1995.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The boat is an International Sailing Federation recognized international class.[6]
The design was built by Hobie Cat Europe in France, starting in 1995 and later by the parent company Hobie Cat in the United States in 2001, but it is now out of production.[1] [2] [7] [8] [9] [10]
The Hobie Tiger is a sailing dinghy, with the twin hulls built predominantly of polyester fiberglass sandwich with a foam core.[1] [2] [3]
The hulls have plumb stems and transoms, transom-hung rudders controlled by a single tiller and twin retractable daggerboards. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, including a rotating mast, stepped on the fore beam. The rigging is wire. It displaces 3970NaN0 and is normally sailed by a crew of two sailors, both of whom are provided with trapezes to balance the boat.[1] [2] [3] [6]
The boat has a draft of 2.33feet with a daggerboard extended and 3inches with both retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.[1] [2]
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of 226square feet.[1] [2]
The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick RYA PN handicap number of 693.[3]