
In this undated black and white photo provided on Monday, March 31, 2014, by Hobie Designs, shows young Hobart "Hobie" Alter in Laguna Beach, Calif. He helped popularize surfing and sailing with the development of the foam surfboard and the "Hobie Cat" sailboat, has died. He was 80. When Hobie built his first surfboard, about the time he graduated from high school in 1950, the old-fashioned, heavy wooden ones that had limited the sport to the strongest and most determined athletes were beginning to give way to lighter balsa wood boards. (AP Photo/Hobie Designs)
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