Ancient figures. Modern cats.

In 1947 the Norwegian explorer/scientist Thor Heyerdahl, built an
ancient-styled balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki and sailed it from Peru to
Polynesia -5,000 miles away- to prove that ancient South American Indians
could have reached Polynesia.

The voyage of his raft Kon-Tiki is just one of his many true-life
adventures. Heyerdahl was also the first person to do an archaeological dig
on Easter Island. The raft was christened Kon-Tiki and sported a sail
painted with a likeness of the legendary chief-god, based on stone statues
of him at Tiahuanaco.

As the legendary sailors, in 2004, we paint again the sails to say how proud we
are about our Mayan ancestors.

Chac Mool, "the messenger of gods" appears in the jib as a symbol of the
land that will be reached in 2004 by modern sea-warriors from all over the world.
The history will be writen here, in the Riviera Maya.

Doug Skidmore and his people at Hobie Cat Co. are working wonderful on the
boats (Very Limited Edition). This is the official sails and hull graphics
for the Hobieworlds 2004.

Click on sails to enlarge



El gato de Hobie.
October 2003