Foam Surfboards

(Photo: Marco Garcia, AP) PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — Hobart "Hobie" Alter, who helped popularize surfing and sailing with the development of the foam surfboard and the "Hobie Cat" sailboat, has died. He was 80. Alter died Saturday at his Palm Desert home This unusable foam, partnered with other somewhat toxic materials required to finish each surfboard, equaled an incalculable amount of waste coming from the surf industry. These facts, coupled with the belief that most surfers would be willing to do their ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. (Sept. 14, 11:15 a.m. ET) — Surfboard makers now have a route for using leftover polyurethane dust – the result of shaping a surfboard from a block of foam. Sales of surfboards generated more than $160.6 million in 2010 according to Mike LaVecchia likes his wooden surfboard because it’s a little heavier, and therefore a little faster, than conventional foam boards. And he likes the fact that wood is a renewable resource, so his passion for surfing is not contributing to the This week's closure of an Orange County factory that had a near-global monopoly on surfboard foam blanks is having a huge ripple effect on an industry that employs hundreds, if not thousands, of people along the California coast. Locally, independent Click here to watch and listen to Baggett discuss how the closure of Clark Foam has affected his business. Photos by Jesse Morton The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Or maybe not, according to a handful of local surfboard shapers and retailers. .

Surfboards can be made with one of two types of foam: polyurethane or polystyrene. Polystyrene, the kind used for foam packaging, is a petroleum-based product that is banned in various cities. Through collection bins at California surf shops, the program Source: M. FarrellyMidget Farrelly test-rides a Farrelly board made with a Clark Foam polyurethane blank, at Sydney, Australia's Manly Beach in 1994. Source: Rusty SurfboardsRusty Surfboards' Spring Demo Days lined up EPS- and polyurethane-cored boards for The nation’s devastating recession officially began in 2007, but for the surfboard industry the downturn actually began two years earlier when Clark Foam, based in Orange County, Calif., ceased production. Clark Foam was to surfboards what cows are to On a muggy morning on the outskirts of Asbury Park, N.J., earlier this month, Ryan Lovelace, a 28-year-old surfboard builder from Santa Barbara, Calif., picked up a white foam surfboard “blank” and marched it into a nearby shaping bay. He was in the .

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