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What were surfboards made of in the 1960's?

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In 1958, a shaper named Hobie Alter and a glasser named Grubby Clark perfected the polyurethane foam blank. In 1961 the two created a second company, Clark Foam, to make surfboard blanks. Soon thereafter, the surfboard was made from fiberglass, polyester resin and polyurethane foam.

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