2020 Everglades Challenge, 300 miles in a Hobie Getaway

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This weekend we’ll be entering the 300 Mile Everglades Challenge departing from Fort Desoto in Tampa Bay Florida at 7am Saturday and Finishing in Key Largo Florida. There are about 100 other vessels entered in the race and 3 Check points along the way Englewood, Everglades City/Chokoloskee and Flamingo. This will be the 9th year in a row we’ll be entering with our Hobie Getaway with wing seats, peddle drive system and a spinnaker.

There is a favorable cold front forecasted to arrive towards the end of the week to push us along our way South.

Here’s the link below to the Water Tribe website and the Everglades Challenge tracker to follow us along our journey.

Its incredible how forgiving our Hobie sailboat has been each year since we first started sailing as relatively novice sailors and are now looking at almost 8 straight finishes in a row. Each year seems to present its own unique challenges along the course. Looking forward to seeing what this year has in store for us!

Here is our account from last year - - we’ll do another write up once we make it to Key Largo sometime next week.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y7D ... OKFiO7aJAw



Tracker ( Search for Coastie)

http://www.watertribe.com/Events/ChallengeGMapper.aspx


Water Tribe website:
http://www.watertribe.com/

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Hobie Getaway 2012 “Miss Marie”
300 Mile Everglades Challenge '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20

Looks like awesome fun. Would love to see pictures of your peddle drive setup if you get a chance?
Thanks, Steve C.

Steve, let me see if I can upload a few. Photo bucket changed how to do this.

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Hobie Getaway 2012 “Miss Marie”
300 Mile Everglades Challenge '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20

Hobie Getaway finishes 4th place overall out of over 100 vessels entered in the 2020 Everglades Challenge!

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Hobie Getaway 2012 “Miss Marie”
300 Mile Everglades Challenge '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20

Way to go!!

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Matt Miller
Former - Director of Parts and Accessory Sales
Warranty and Technical Support
Hobie Cat USA
(Retired 11/7/2022)

Thank you Matt! A lot is to be said about a vessel entering a 300 mile event, finishing 8 years in a row and still going strong on top of all the weekend family camping and fishing trips. She’s a great design!

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Hobie Getaway 2012 “Miss Marie”
300 Mile Everglades Challenge '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20

Here’s our race write up with pictures in the link below

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Kp ... zeVwbnClrE

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Hobie Getaway 2012 “Miss Marie”
300 Mile Everglades Challenge '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20

Cool stuff.

Great job again guys. Excellent narrative. Gotta admit, I loved nearly everything about my Getaway, but I prefer trimarans to single hand.

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R/Thom
SeaRail 19
Triak
BMW C600
Formerly Getaway with Custom Spinnakers
Formerly raced F24 Mk II