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Hobart "Hobie" Alter (October 31, 1933 – March 29, 2014) was a surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer, creator of the Hobie Cat catamarans, and founder of the Hobie company. ==Biography== Hobie Alter will be remembered for creating the process of the foam-and-fiberglass surfboard & his subsequent creation of the Hobie Cat catamaran sailing boat line. His label, Hobie, remains one of the top-selling surfboard brands of all time. He is also the creator of the Hobie 33 ultralight-displacement sailboat and a mass-produced radio-controlled glider, the Hobie Hawk. During summer vacation 1950 "Hobie" hit on an idea . ""Hobie began by building 9-foot balsawood sufboards for his friends. He asked his dad to pull the Desoto out of the family's Laguna Beach, California garage, and converted it into a wood shop for his hobby. Hobie's hobby became a business and in discussing the future with friends as a young man "Hobie" declared that he wanted to make a living without having to wear hard-soled shoes or work east of California’s Pacific Coast Highway. By “Making people a toy and giving them a game to play with it”. A couple of years later, Hobie opened up Southern California's first surf shop in Dana Point, California. 1958 Hobie and Gordon "Grubby" Clark began experiments making surfboards out of foam and fiberglass. The new boards were lighter, faster and more responsive than wooden ones. Several famous surfers surfed for the Hobie Team, including Joey Cabell, Phil Edwards, Corky Carroll, Gary Propper, Mickey Munoz, Joyce Hoffman and Yancy Spencer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hobart Alter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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