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Surf Splendor

548 - Gary Larson: Hobie Surfboards

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 89 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. It has been 75 years since Hobie Alter shaped his first surfboard.

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1950 was the year.

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He was 17 years old and he shaped it from Balsawood in his family garage in Laguna Beach, California.

2:38.0

Four years later in 1954, he officially founded Hobie surfboards and the brand would grow into one of surfing's most iconic and enduring surfboard manufacturers.

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