DAVE SWEET: FOUNTAINHEAD OF FOAM
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Scrolling through the Hobie Alter death notices last week was pretty awe-inspiring. The sheer volume of accomplishment he managed during his busy 80 years of life, for starters. Surfboards to skateboards to boats to gliders. Hobie had a genius for production. He industrialized our sport, as I keep reading again and again. But the man himself actually seemed to have very little of the industrialist...
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