Hobie Alter could have called it quits after his first surfboard, crafted from a heavy balsa wood in his father’s Laguna Beach garage. But, “he didn’t like that board,” said Dick Metz ...

His death was announced by the Hobie Surf Shop in Dana Point, where he had worked off and on for 40 years. Over the years, surfing transformed into a global business, and custom hand-shapers were ...

Known practically everywhere with a coastline or a lake simply as “Hobie,” Alter developed the mass-produced foam surfboard. He later popularized sailing by inventing a lightweight ...

“He could build stuff nobody else thought of.” Hobie Surf Shops is celebrating this year’s milestone starting on Wednesday by giving away 70th anniversary custom hats to customers. There’s ...

How then did it come to be that a Hobie surfboard with a Presidential Seal became part of surfing lore? Nixon was about as ...

Surfboard maker Hobie Alter, who started making boards with lightweight balsa wood, switched to polyurethane foam, and helped take the sport to the next level. Hobie's Dana Point, Calif., ...

LOS ANGELES – Two words -- surfboards and Hobie -- were all but synonymous in the early 1960s, when teenagers who saw movies such as "Gidget" and "Beach Party" rushed to the shores of Southern ...

Hobie Alter could have called it quits after his first surfboard, crafted from a heavy balsa wood in his father’s Laguna Beach garage. But, “he didn’t like that board,” said Dick Metz ...