Solid balsa wood.
Datec. 1950
ClassificationsSurfboards
Credit LineSpencer Croul
Object numberS.363
DescriptionOne of the most successful entrepreneurs in surfing history, Hobie Alter is widely remembered as the man behind the development of the foam-and-fiberglass surfboard. A surfer, tandem surfer, skier, motorcyclist, swimmer and all-around waterman in his youth, he is the creator of the Hobie Cat, the Hobie 33 ultralight-displacement sailboat and one of the finest mass-produced radio-controlled gliders, the Hobie Hawk. (excerpt from Surfline’s “Surfing A-Z”. this board features an early Hobie logo)On View
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c. 1963
Mid-1950s
