LEGENDARY SURFERS

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Sunday, December 14, 2025

Bud Morrissey: Flat Bottoms & Parallel Sides

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Aloha and Welcome to this LEGENDARY SURFERS chapter on 1930s and ‘40s surfer and shaper Bud Morrissey. It is largely drawn from an article I...

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Bob McTavish (1944-present)

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A placeholder for all things McTavish. From our Facebook group, July 2025: Words by Brent Flaaten Adapted from the interview with Jaime Br...

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Jock Sutherland (1948-present)

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A placeholder for Jock stuff. Jock Sutherland, 2024 Photographer: Katy Grannan for The New York Times 🥥 William Finnegan, "A Surf Leg...

Pacific System Homes

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Aloha and Welcome to a brief look at Southern California’s and The World's very first surfboard manufacturer: Pacific System Homes, orig...

Monday, December 1, 2025

The Endless Summer ( movie)

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The Endless Summer , theatrical release, 1966, digitally remastered. Mahalo, Tim Hart: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Efo8yK2Xf/ Artwork ...

Monday, November 17, 2025

Three Mile (Rincon)

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Aloha and Welcome to the beginning of surfing on the Queen of The Coast: Rincon – once known to surfers simply as “Three Mile”. Artwork by t...

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Late 1930s SoCal Surfing

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Aloha and Welcome to a look at Southern California surfing in the late 1930s, largely drawn from Doc Ball’s California Surfriders, 1946 , se...

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