{"id":45785,"date":"2014-03-30T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45785"},"modified":"2014-03-30T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:53:53","slug":"rip-surf-sailing-innovator-hobie-alter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45785","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Surf &#038; Sailing Innovator Hobie Alter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hobie-SEverson-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-45787\" alt=\"Hobie-SEverson-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hobie-SEverson-5-158x200.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hobie-SEverson-5-158x200.jpg 158w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hobie-SEverson-5.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>Hobie Alter<\/strong>, the man most responsible for the modern age of both surfing and sailing, died yesterday (Saturday, March 29, 2014). He was 80 years old. According to a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/blogs\/culture\/rip-hobie-alter\/\"><em><strong>SurferMagazine.com<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A true waterman, Alter competed successfully in the Makaha International Surf Contest in 1958 and \u201959, won a trio of tandem surfing championships from 1961-\u201963, and was elected to both the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame (1997) and the National Sailing Hall of Fame (2011). But Alter\u2019s legacy will always be that of a pioneer of surfboard and sailboat production, called \u201cthe Henry Ford of the surfboard industry\u201d by <strong>Steve Pezman<\/strong>, for his contribution to the large-scale manufacture of surfboards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We had the honor of interviewing Alter for a surf magazine nearly a decade ago. It was a phone interview and he was sitting on the front porch of his home in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. We hit him with questions he&#8217;d been asked thousands of time before. But he didn&#8217;t seem to mind. At one point, we heard him say,&#8221; Whoa.&#8221; And we asked, &#8220;What just happened? You okay?&#8221; He laughed, &#8220;A Bald Eagle just got a big one.&#8221; We knew then, that Alter was living right. Our thoughts are with Alter&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/blogs\/culture\/rip-hobie-alter\/\">Surfer Magazine<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobie Alter, the man most responsible for the modern age of both surfing and sailing, died yesterday (Saturday, March 29, 2014). He was 80 years old. According to a story on SurferMagazine.com: A true waterman, Alter competed successfully in the Makaha International Surf Contest in 1958 and \u201959, won a trio of tandem surfing championships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45788,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45785\/revisions\/45788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}