548 - Gary Larson: Hobie Surfboards
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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In today's show shaper and college professor Gary Larson reveals who he believes is the greatest shaper of all time, the design feature that defines a great surfboard, how looking back provides direction for innovation, and discusses the weight of stewarding a 75 year shaping legacy. Enjoy!
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| 1:12.2 | started so get it through drinkag1.com slash surf kick off a healthier you you got that 90 day |
| 1:19.4 | money back guarantee so there is zero reason not to try drinkag1.com slash surf. Enjoy. It has been 75 years since Hobie Alter shaped his first surfboard. |
| 1:59.6 | 1950 was the year. |
| 2:01.2 | He was 17 years old, and he shaped it from Balsawood in his family garage in Laguna Beach, California. |
| 2:07.9 | Four years later, in 1954, he officially founded Hobie surfboards, |
| 2:12.9 | and the brand would grow into one of surfing's most iconic and enduring surfboard manufacturers. |
| 2:19.6 | And then, well beyond that, into clothing, retail, which, by the way, go listen to our Dick Mets |
| 2:25.4 | series if you want to hear about retail. And then also into sailboats, kayaks, and probably |
| 2:30.8 | just the world's foremost producer of a wide range of small water craft. |
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