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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.
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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 .
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.
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 ...
Surfer is an American quarterly magazine periodical focused on surfing and surf culture, founded in 1962 by noted surfer, writer, photographer, artist and humorist John Severson (1933–2017). [2] [3] The magazine went on hiatus from 2020 until August 2024. Surfer began as a quarterly publication, then a bi-monthly, subsequently becoming a ...
SurfGirl magazine is a surf and beach lifestyle magazine for women. It was the first independent magazine for women's surfing in the UK. [1] SurfGirl is distributed through the US, Australia, Portugal, South Africa, Germany, and France. The magazine produces content on film, travel, and lifestyle centered around the sport aforementioned. It is ...
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz (March 3, 1921 – November 10, 2014) was an American surfer and physician, [1] [2] who gave up practicing medicine for a living and decided to become a professional surfer. [1]