TI Water Rescue

If anyone is interested the TI makes for a great rescue craft. I had the unfortunate opportunity to test this out over the weekend. I took my two older kids (12 and 9) sailing on one of our local lakes. The weather was nice around 72F water temps were in the 60's winds 10-20 mph. We had just beached to take a break at the local sailing club. They have a cat beach that makes launching easier. I happened to look out into the water and noticed something bobbing about 400-500 ft. away. After a minute or two I noticed that it was two people in the water. I thought it was odd that someone would be swimming. Then I noticed they had a capsized boat between them. Upon realizing that they were not able to right the boat themselves I grabbed my daughter (she's the oldest and stronger) and we put the boat in and headed for them. I was quite impressed how quickly we covered the distance. We even beat a john boat with a trolling motor and he was closer. As we approached it was clear that they had taken a wave broadside to their canoe and had gone in. I was able to drift up next to them and pull one individual up onto a tramp. I offered to take her for a sail and she kindly declined. The other individual was assisted by the john boat. We got them to shore with their overturned canoe without further incident. It felt good to lend a hand especially since this was only our second time out in the TI.
Some things to note:

• I am highly impressed by the stability of my TI. It made getting the victim in the boat just that much easier.
• I was very proud of the effort that my daughter displayed helping to pedal us over to the victims. With two people pedaling you can cover distance fairly quickly.
• Brightly colored PFDs are a definite must! They were wearing brown/black PFDs and although it kept them afloat it was hard discerning them from the brownish water of the lake.
• Safety whistles should be lashed to the PFD. If they had them, they didn't use them. If I had heard a safety whistle I would have been there even faster. All of my PFDs have safety whistles lashed to them and all of my passengers know how to use it.

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2015 Hobie Tandem Island Hibiscus
"Third Normal Form"

• Trampolines
• Hobie cover
• Davis Spar Fly
• Kayakbob's Sprayskirts
• Spine Board Hakas

Awesome!

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

Cool beans, that water is still too cold to be doing that. We just had a guy from AFAW die on that lake over the winter because he wasn't wearing a pfd, couldn't swim, and flipped a canoe.

Yep, I remember that accident. At least these people were wearing PFDs. She was shivering pretty good and had only been in the water maybe 5-10 minutes. I'm just glad we could lend assistance.

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2015 Hobie Tandem Island Hibiscus
"Third Normal Form"

• Trampolines
• Hobie cover
• Davis Spar Fly
• Kayakbob's Sprayskirts
• Spine Board Hakas

Nice job! Hope I never need, but can offer the same!

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2015 Hobie Tandem Island

Good job, I have been there. Rescued a few different kayakers over the years. Towed in a power boat once, that was work...
Saturday April 18 at noon. Lets get the Omaha Hobies together at Lake Cunningham. Plus we can have our first unofficial meeting of the Land Locked Island Club. Should be a good day for saililng and pedaling...

Joe

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Crazy Joe
Captain of the LIC. Landlocked Island Club, Omaha Ne.

2016 Tandem Island on a Trailex Aluminum trailer being towed by a
Triumph Scrambler Motorcycle..

We'll keep an eye on the weather for Saturday. I wouldn't be able to get out there until about 1230 (daughter has soccer practice), but I would love to get together.

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2015 Hobie Tandem Island Hibiscus
"Third Normal Form"

• Trampolines
• Hobie cover
• Davis Spar Fly
• Kayakbob's Sprayskirts
• Spine Board Hakas

Sounds good. If weather holds, I'll be out there around 1230.
Yours has soccer, Mine is running track, Spend most of last saturday at Millard South watching my baby run fast, but Papio didnt do well overall...

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Crazy Joe
Captain of the LIC. Landlocked Island Club, Omaha Ne.

2016 Tandem Island on a Trailex Aluminum trailer being towed by a
Triumph Scrambler Motorcycle..

Maybe i'll come out with the pa and yall can do circles around me

Please do Defy. I need someone to teach me to fish. I'm so bad at Fishing, Jesus himself is ashamed of me...

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Crazy Joe
Captain of the LIC. Landlocked Island Club, Omaha Ne.

2016 Tandem Island on a Trailex Aluminum trailer being towed by a
Triumph Scrambler Motorcycle..

Lol! I'm the same way.

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2015 Hobie Tandem Island Hibiscus
"Third Normal Form"

• Trampolines
• Hobie cover
• Davis Spar Fly
• Kayakbob's Sprayskirts
• Spine Board Hakas

Never said i could fish.... but i look the part with my PA and some cool stickers . I want an AI sooo bad but i just don't have the space and after growing up on a big cat on the coast I dont think i would be happy sailing here.

We'll see might be up there we probably should start a NE thread so we stop hijacking others...

I started one. We just keep not using it

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2015 Hobie Tandem Island Hibiscus
"Third Normal Form"

• Trampolines
• Hobie cover
• Davis Spar Fly
• Kayakbob's Sprayskirts
• Spine Board Hakas

Defy,

I know how you feel. I use to race Hobie's Prindles, Nacra's even an olympic class Tornado, down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. But suprisingly I have found I am very happy sailing my island here in land locked Nebraska.

Now going to the Nebraska/Iowa thread and reactivate it...

Joe
Land Locked Island Club. LLIC

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Crazy Joe
Captain of the LIC. Landlocked Island Club, Omaha Ne.

2016 Tandem Island on a Trailex Aluminum trailer being towed by a
Triumph Scrambler Motorcycle..