The Mirage Adventure Island shivered with delight as she took her first sip of La Jolla salt. I pulled the big Hobie—a hybrid craft featuring two outriggers, a mirage drive and a sail—out to waist ...

The gusts were 20 knots and climbing. The sea was a whipped, white-capped froth. Kayak Fish lens man Aaron Schmidt and I were aboard a borrowed Hobie Mirage Tandem Island a long mile off a stony line ...

The evolution of the sailcraft has been underway for thousands of years but March could well become the significant point at which sailpower begins to merge with other energy forms to create a suite ...