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The Katins kept making their surf trunks, selling them from the Surfside store and through a hemisphere-wide network of surf shop dealers. From the 1960s through the 1970s, many top surfers were loyal customers [3] and appeared in surf magazine ads wearing them. Walter Katin died in 1967, and Nancy continued to run the shop and the business in ...
Richie Fitzgerald is an Irish big-wave surfer. [1]He first appeared as a judge in Channel 4's reality TV show, Faking it, titled "Web Surfer To Wave Surfer", which aired on 2 November 2002.
Jack O'Neill's name is attached to surfwear and his brand of surfing equipment. [8] Although the invention of the wetsuit had often been attributed to O'Neill, he was not its inventor. [ 9 ] An investigation concluded that UC Berkeley physicist Hugh Bradner was the inventor of the wetsuit.
Bunker Spreckels (born Adolph Bernard Spreckels III; August 15, 1949 – January 7, 1977) was an American surfer and an early pioneer of a surfboard design.. He was the great-grandson of German-born sugar baron Claus Spreckels and was heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune. [1]
Frye has appeared on many magazine covers including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (1969, with model Jamee Becker), The Surfer's Journal, Surfing, and Surfer Magazine. Frye is known for his gliding, fluid style as well as creating some of the most in-demand surfboards in the world.
Hobart "Hobie" Laidlaw Alter (October 31, 1933 – March 29, 2014) was an American surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer, creator of the Hobie Cat catamarans, and founder of the Hobie company. He created the Hobie 33 ultralight-displacement sailboat and a mass-produced radio-controlled glider, the Hobie Hawk .
Dale Velzy (September 23, 1927 – May 26, 2005) was an American surfboard shaper, credited with being the world's first commercial shaper.He opened the first professional surf shop in Manhattan Beach, California, in 1950, personally hand fashioning the surfboards from wood or synthetic material.
Matt Warshaw (born 1960) is a former professional surfer, former writer and editor at Surfer magazine (1984-1990), [1] [2] and the author of dozens of feature articles and large-format books on surfing culture and history.