HOBIE: Master Of Water, Wind And Waves

The man, Hobie, known by just one name worldwide, has an epic life story.

This 30x22 cm hardcover book shows how it all came to be, and more.

• 17 chapters
• 300 pages
• 120,000 words of text
• 585 photographs and illustrations!

Hobie Alter's genius and innovation shaped and changed the entire cultures of surfing and sailing. Hobie, the man and the brand, created an empire of surfboards, catamarans, monohull sailboats, powered craft, radio-controlled model gliders, apparel, sunglasses and so much more. And that was just the foundation for many other amazing endeavours in this incredible life story of a Californian surfer whose prime motivation was always "to build them a toy, and a game to play with it"