Outward Bound is back on Hurricane Island. We spent a night last season on one of their moorings and visited the island.
https://www.hiobs.org/
HIOB holds seasonal public farm to table dinners in their dining hall to raise funds. The North end of the island is off limits but you can walk the rest of the island on the trails and see the kids and their rustic quarters. HIOB moorings are available and a dinghy dock for visitors.
In 2009 a friend from OB unveiled the new Roger Martin HIOB 30 and launched it in Rockport Harbor. I thought it would be a 'game changer!' This was a derivative of Roger Martins Presto 30. Planning, rocket speeds, the 'new idea'. My friend had visions of OB kids planing all over the coast of Maine.
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I'm not sure but I think the HIOB 30 as well as the Presto 30, fizzled. For one, they were expensive for simple 30' sailboats. Plus they were complex in comparison to the old OB pulling boats.
Outward Bound was built on an old tried and true mantra. Exciting speed is good but it has to dovetail into the OB platform that was largely built on students that have never sailed much less planed at high speed.
But I was over the moon for the Presto 30 and the HIOB 30!
I thought the Presto would take off. The builder had problems, orders were weird (people wanted to turn the Presto 30 into a small cruiser spoiling it's performance).
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Very cool boat! A high performance game changer? No,...a production dud.
Yet the drascombe design is over 50 years old and is growing in popularity.