Prior to the Hobie Cat, invented by well-known surfboard maker Hobie Alter, sailing was for the elite. It was a sport reserved for members of yacht clubs who had the mega bucks it took to buy a big ...
Fifty years ago, Hobie Alter created the first-ever Hobie Cat catamaran on the stretch of beach in front of Wayne Schafer’s Capo Beach home. Schafer never could have imagined how far his friend’s ...
OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - Sailors throughout the United States are vying for the 2018 Hobie 17 North American Championship and the Hobie Mid-Winter Regional title in the Mississippi Sound. The Ocean ...
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 ...
PALM DESERT, Calif.—Hobart “Hobie” Alter, who helped popularize surfing and sailing with the development of the foam surfboard and the “Hobie Cat” sailboat, has died. He was 80. Alter died Saturday at ...
NEW YORK — Hobie Alter, who was known as the Henry Ford of the surfboard industry for his manufacturing innovations and who used his idle time to create the Hobie Cat, the lightweight, double-hulled ...
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