DANA POINT (CBSLA.com) — Thousands grabbed their boards and paddled out past the surf at Doheny State Beach Friday to honor sailing and surfing pioneer Hobie Alter. Friends and family told KCAL9's ...

Hobie Alter, whose innovations helped thousands of people go surfing and sailing, died in California on Saturday at age 80. In the 1950s, Alter helped perfect a foam-core surfboard that revolutionized ...

Andrew S. Lewis is a freelance journalist and the author of The Drowning of Money Island: A Forgotten Community’s Fight Against the Rising Seas Threatening Coastal America. Hobie Alter—innovator of ...

F18s, F16, A-Cats and this year it was the turn for the Hobie Wave. There is a pretty big & active fleet of Waves racing in the US, they have some rules to allow non Wave factory sails and rudders, ...

Brewerton, N.Y. - The Oneida Lake competitive sailing scene kicks off this weekend with the 38th annual Madcatter Regatta, which will once again be based at Oneida Shores County Park. More than 150 ...

Two memorial ceremonies are set for Hobie Alter, who changed the way people use the ocean by his modernization of the surfboard and the invention of the Hobie Cat sailboat. Alter, who opened the first ...

Tom and Susan Korzeniewski, of Liverpool, competed last week in the 20th annual Hobie 16 World Championships in Australia. The two raced in the masters division (45 and older), finishing 36th overall.