Hobie Surfboards

Hobie Alter is one of the essential shapers in the history of surfing: Visionary and revolutionary at the same time, Hobie began shaping balsa boards in the early 1950s in his father's garage in Laguna Beach, initially for him and his friends for more and more customers. 100 boards later, Hobie moved his workshop to Dana Point, California and began to become known for his shapes and his professionalism. In 1958 Hobie and his friend Gordon Clark (who created Clark Foam™) managed to shape their first board models in fiber, resin and polyurethane (PU), definitively revolutionizing surfboard manufacturing and the surfing industry. Their invention still marks the history of surfing today since the majority of surfboards around the world are made with the same process! Legendary surfers have ridden Hobie's boards, including Phil Edwards, Joey Cabell, Corky Carroll, Mickey Munoz, Mike Hynson, Dick Brewer, Terry Martin, Herbie Fletcher, and Joyce Hoffman, among others.

Died in 2014, Hobie Alter leaves behind a rich history, a very important "surfing heritage", having innovated like no other and having enabled the development and growth of "modern" surfing and surf business in California and the rest of the world. world. Today the Hobie™ brand as well as the 3 Hobie surf shops in California continue to perpetuate this heritage and the Hobie™ brand entrusts the shaping of its board models to a few talented shapers who produce superb boards in limited quantities, shaped and glassed in California, using the legendary outlines and templates of Hobie™ boards