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Yater began working for Hobie Surfboards in 1955, primarily glassing balsa boards. [5] [4] [6] He worked with Bobby Patterson, Jimmy Johnson, [6] and Phil Edwards.[2] [4] He moved to San Clemente in 1957 to work for Dale Velzy, [5] [4] where he learned shaping techniques from Velzy himself. [6]
San Clemente is a stalwart Republican stronghold in presidential elections with no Democratic nominee winning the city in over four decades. San Clemente voted in favor of Proposition 8 by 55.5% and for Proposition 4 by 52.2%. [44] Gene James, elected by to the City Council in 2019, was appointed Mayor in 2021. [45]
Taylor Lane fused his interests in art and sustainability to create one-of-a-kind surfboards that are crafted from collected cigarette butts. See his process and the reason behind his passion on ...
David Earl Weber (August 18, 1938, in Denver, Colorado – January 6, 1993), known as Dewey Weber, was an American surfer, a popular surfing film subject, and a successful surfboard manufacturing businessman. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he distinguished himself with a surfing style unique at the outset of that era.
A surfboard’s highly personal suitability to individual physiques and waves—the perfect shortboard for an NFL-size old-timer in Montauk is too thick for a teen ripper in Huntington Beach ...
The Avila Beach and San Simeon piers were already closed due to existing damage and sustained a new round of nature’s wrath. Large waves hammer the Avila Beach Pier on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2023.
Trestles is a collection of surfing spots between northern San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County and southern San Clemente in Orange County in California. [1] Trestles consists of, from north to south, Upper Trestles (Uppers), Lower Trestles (Lowers), and Middle Trestles (Middles). North of Upper Trestles is the surf spot called Cottons.
In 1992, Chris' shaping career began with a six-year apprenticeship to shaping legend, Dick Brewer (1936-2022). It was perfecting the skill of shaping boards under Brewer, and the influence of his then neighbor, Skip Frye, that solidified Chris' abilities to design and shape any size surfboard, which would later open the door to shaping big wave guns for the world's best big wave surfers.