SHF Visitors

September 7, 2014, 3:30 pm

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We get a wide range of visitors on any given day. Local groms, legends, pros, and a fair number from foreign lands.

Author and historian, Matt Warshaw. He penned the Encyclopedia of Surfing and The History of Surfing and is responsible for the Encyclopedia of Surfing website. Photo: Barry Haun

Longtime SHACC supporter, Kathy Pierce with John Severson at his Booksigning event at SHACC. Photo: Linda Michael

Barbara and Charlie Moir from Capetown, South Africa. photo: Linda Michael

Visitors Bill, Leigh and Bob Faerber and Nichole and Shawn Campbell. photo: Linda Michael

Visitors from Colorado High School on their annual surf/camping trip to Sano. photo: Linda Michael

Barry Haun, Filippo Calai, Paul Strauch. Filippo was interning for a few weeks while visiting from Italy. photo: Linda Michael

Kyuhyan Lee from Seoul, South Korea. Kyuhyan had just finished surfing Sano for the first time and came straight here (she still had her wetsuit on). photo: Linda Michael

Sancho Rodriguez, Steve Pezman and Angela Zozaya. photo: Linda Michael

Sonoko and Makoto from Japan. photo: Linda Michael

Gretchen and Eden Severson and the Haggars—Sean, Maureen,and Lacy-Lou. Gretchen is married to John's nephew, Benji. photo: Linda Michael

Dale Hope, author and Aloha Shirt historian, with Steve Wilkings. photo: Linda Michael

Paul Strauch with Malibu legend, Lance Carson and his dog, Bruce. photo: Linda Michael

2 legendary surf photographers, Steve WIlkings and Bernie Baker. photo: Linda Michael

A Mike Hynson sighting in our Endless Summer display. photo: Linda Michael

Bill Vetter, one of the original founders of the San Onofre Surf Club. photo: Linda Michael

2007 Longboard Champ, Phil Rajzman, SHACC founder, Dick Metz, and Von Sol's Sean Matteson. photo: Linda Michael

Chris, Anthony, and Cory. photo: Linda Michael

Auro and Andrea were visiting from Italy. They're currently working on John Severson's next book project. photo: Linda Michael

Travis Trick brought the Nike crew by for a tour. photo: Linda Michael

Bill Winterhalter and Gil Orr (Gil is one half of the Duo Tones and a member of the Chantays). photo: Linda Michael

Johan Dryselius and Jako Ahlstedt came all the way from Sweden. photo: Linda Michael

Bing Copeland checking out the Donald Takayama exhibit and the Bing - Nuuhiwa Noserider model, designed by Donald. photo: Linda Michael

Lois Pyanowsla, J. Scott Klossner, Kira Dave, and Terri Tucker, were here from Arizona and Rockaway, NY. photo: Linda Michael

Paul Strauch, Bob Neely, and Barry Haun, with some the cool XM SurfMore products that Neely carries. We offer your choice of a short or longboard leash with our Family and above Memberships. photo: Linda Michael

Ted Whitaker and 'Ema Latu from New Zealand. photo: Linda Michael

Yusuke Hanai, Hi-dutch, Hide, J.T., visiting from Japan. photo: Linda Michael

Henry Ford, Duncan Wilson, Paul Strauch, and members of the Tiger Cub Scouts.

Paul Strauch with Mike McIntyre and fellow Members of the Haggerty's Surf Club.

Lonnie Argabright, Kara Schrage, Jason Joseph Lusk, and Paul Strauch.

Rusty Miller and Tricia Shantz check out the Griffin Walls. photo: Linda Michael

Local "Tiger" Cubscouts with Henry Ford, Dick Metz, and Paul Strauch. Dick is holding his original Boy Scout uniform and Paul is holding a photo of Metz, back when he was a scout. photo:Lori Stephani

Our favorite NorCal longboarder dropped by for a visit with Alysa and Paul Stafford. photo: Linda Michael

Carl Ekstrom and Richard Kenvin are flanked by Paul Strauch and Barry Haun.

Lisa Peterson and her husband, Joel Knutson came by today. Lisa is legendary waterman, Pete Peterson's daughter and she's holding the rail of one of Pete's hollow boards. A similar one sold at our auction for $32K! Both Pete and Whitey shaped boards at the Pacific System Homes factory in LA.

Lorrin "Whitey" Harrison's granddaughter, Shelly Coe, and her son Wyatt dropped by. They're standing by one of Whitey's hollow models.

SHACC Creative Director, Barry Haun with Astrodeck's Herbie Fletcher. This hot curl was shaped by Herbie's father-in-law, Walter Hoffman and then reshaped by Renny Yater. Some solid lineage.

Rob Sachse and his daughter Belle. Belle's favorite board was this gun that belonged to the late Mark Foo.

Jack McCoy stopped by in July to screen "A Deeper Shade of Blue" and do a Q&A at the SHACC.

Lindsay and Matt Hopgood were over from Kent in the UK.

Denny Aaberg, Pau lStrauch, and Mike and Catherine Shellman.

Dennis Shields, Bruce Meade, Paul-Strauch and Mike Salter.

Melody DeCarlo and Dan Mahoney were visiting from Cocoa Beach Surf Museum in Florida.

Visitors, Rusty Wyly, Monica McCabe and Brett Staska.

Michael Stewart and Kevin Whilden from Sustainable Surf. We're collaborating on an exhibit that will open here in November 2013.

Jim Wade, and Allen and John Faas (of Allen Surfboards).

Harry Bold, Paul Naude and Dick Metz.

Dick Metz and Robert Hendrikson.

Joseph Alphabet,Carl Tanner, Harry Bold, Mike Brown, Darryl Homan, Dick Metz and Bruce Little.

Manuel Arroyo, Paula Armengod, Yago de la Mora from Santander, Spain.

Asaki, Nemoto, Yamaguchi, Hanzawa, Nishitani, and Miyamoto from Japan.

Ivo Kemper and Tamar Moorman from Holland.

Hans Tegebo brought by Dale Webster's board that Dale broke the "13,000 consecutive days surfed" mark with. Dale's now at 36 years of surfing everyday, catching at least 4 waves each session. Who says surfers are obsessed. We'll be displaying the board here while it's on loan.

Jon and Rosa Wegener came by for a first-time visit, to see the Grain board building class in progress. They were naturally drawn to this hollow Gordon Woods board.

The February 2013 graduation Grain board building class. As you can see, a wide variety of shapes were worked on. (That's 2 time world longboard champ, Jen Smith, seated with her brand new paipo)

Jackson and Mark Christy flank Dick Metz at our "Evening with Dick Metz". We'll be putting out a DVD as soon as we're done with editing.

Tom Morey showing Leo Hetzel something of interest, we're sure.

Vincent Kemp helped out during the Grain board building class and when it was over, he donated his paipo that he had previously built from a Grain kit that he had sent away for.

Paul Strauch and Jonathan Jenkins at our evening with Metz. Jonathan has helped us video most of the events and many interviews over the last few years.

Peter Mel is part of our California Gold Auction Committee. Pete recently won the Mav's contest!

Dick Metz and some of his classmates from Redlands College, class of 1954.

Dick Metz giving a tour to his Redlands Classmates.

Legendary surfer, skier, and Chart House restaurant founder, Joey Cabell with Dick Metz.

Local surfer, artist, hot rodder, etc., Brian Bent stopped by to check out our planks and paddleboards. Brian is hard core old school—no wetsuit, wool sweaters and wooden hollow paddleboards.

The annual Coalition of Surf Club Team Captains meeting was held here recently, just prior to their contest at Church. They were blessed with some of the best wave conditions ever.

Legendary surfer, Bill Fury was here as a guest for the Coalition of Surf Club Team Captains meeting.

L-R: Carl Tanner, Marni Larkin, Joe Larkin and Kelly Larkin.
Joe Larkin, Legendary Australian Shaper, and his daughters, Marni and Kelly and Carl Tanner visited Surfing Heritage last month. Joe was inducted into the International Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame at the Longboard Collectors Club's annual meeting at DoHo.

Asier Antoma, Alex Aristegieta, Patxi Usubiaga, Ignacio Liria, and Cedric were visiting from the Basque Country, Spain. They all picked up these vintage Aloha print shirts we have for sale here at SHF.

Lisa Newin, Julie Daumes, Cesar Moreira, and Albert and Mindy Elliott.

We turned the tables on "Curious" Gabe Sullivan and asked him which was his favorite board from our collection. The AH-Wooooo!

Founding Partners, Mark and Cindy Fragale were here on a visit from Oahu. Mark runs the Honolulu Surfing Museum.

Miles, Blake, Dean, Noah, and Sean. Nuff said.

Nasrin Rahinieh, George Lang, John and Karen Young, and Angie Alford.

Steve West, Kurt Feeter, Kirby Fosgatt came down from Santa Cruz.

Jeff and Azure Wolfe, and Karen and Greg Chisolm were here to see our Weber exhibit.

Bill Zielinski, and Rena and Tim Passar were here on Oct 18.

Early Hobie employee, Dennis Olsen came by with family members for a visit.

Gene Cooper makes some of the most beautiful wave-riding toys around-this one is headed to Japan.

Tim Bessell donated a cherry Bodyglove wetsuit from the early 1970s. He also had one of his "Warhol" surfboards with him.

Jack and Mary Jo Lincke stopped by for a visit and liked this redwood and balsa mini gun Greg Noll made for Dick Metz.

This photo is from last year when Derek Jardine was visiting from South Africa and Doc Paskowitz and he came in for an interview.

SHF Founding Partners, Teresa and Sam Gornto were visiting from Florida.

SHF Founding & Sustaining Partners, Joe and Ellie Dunn brought the extended family by for a visit. Dick Metz was here to give them the grand tour.

Gracelyn Rezmer was visiting from Wisconsin and looking for material on Tom Blake (also from Wisconsin), for a school project. We highly approve of her choice of subject matter!

Photographer, Tim Hogan is producing a book on the history of surfboard fins and has been shooting many boards and fins from our collection. It's an amazingly elaborate set-up that he utilizes, each fin takes about an hour to photograph.

Troy McElveen is assisting Tim on the surfboard fin project. Here he is operating another piece of the equipment they use.

Floyd Smith, Dick Metz, and George Bensen.

Floyd Smith and George Bensen standing in front of one of George's restored Woodies.

South Coast Distributor, Rick Arons, and Mike Perch.

San Clemente Mayor, Jim Evert, and San Onofre Foundation and California Surf Museum President, Jim Kempton, posing here in front of Greg Long's Eddie board.

Dick Metz and Steve Wilking's friend, surfer Malcolm McCassy.

Craig Le Seuer, the winner of our Found It In the Archives contest dropped by.

Rick Thompson, our next-door neighbor at ReShape Medical came by to do some shopping.

SHF Photo Archivist, Steve Wilkings and Roger Yates (Forgotten Island of Santosha) pose in front of the Velzy Shaping Shack.

SHF Curator, Barry Haun is pictured here with surfing historian, Bruce Gabrielson, and HB legend, Chuck Linnen. Bruce donated a couple of Dale Velzy's shaping lights and one of Dale's gun templates.

Harlan Patterson and Kevin Julien were visiting from Nova Scotia. Harlan glassed the Todd Chesser, Rusty surfboard back when he owned Pacific Surf Glass. photo: Linda Michael

Colin Foulker and Chris Bugge were visiting from the UK.

Dan, Nora, and Tom McCarthy were here from Long Beach, New York.

George Stremple in red is holding one of the boards he donated a few years back and Frank Van Wickle is holding one of 4 boards donated by the Quinard family.

Glen Thompson is over from South Africa and using our library to do research for his thesis.

Legendary Shaper, Rich Harbour and Steve Wilkings check out one of Phil Edwards' shapes.

Brothers Britt and Chris Janusz with a couple boards from their collection.

Mike Schwarner, and Vincent and Emilie. Vincent and Emilie were visiting from France.

Paul and Karen Samuelson with a balsa board that was glassed by Danny Brawner.

Fuzzy foto. That's Christian Driggs, Rob Givens, Lindsay Perry, and Pierce Michael Kavanagh stopping by for a visit yesterday.

About a dozen Adventure Guides-Big Sky Circle, Laguna Niguel Nation, came by for a visit and tour. Being second-graders, I was able to hold their attention for about 30 seconds, but their dads seemed to appreciate the info. Barry, SHF Curator, etc.

Our archivist Becki Church's sister Amy, and her family. Husband Bryan, and kids, Katie, Isaac, Mckenzie, and Benny Thulin.

SHF Curator Barry Haun, legendary shaper Terry Martin, David Krause, SHF co-founder Spencer Croul, and SHF Executive Director Bolton Colburn

The Coalition of Surf Clubs' Team Captains and various members, met at SHF on the eve of the annual Church contest, 1/6/12.

SHF Director & docent, Denny Michael, accepts a $1,000 donation from DLSA President Mark Calkins, and DSLA VP Bobby Knox. Thank you Doheny Longboard Surfing Association!

Surfing legend and former Hawaii State Senator, Fred Hemmings dropped by and met our new Executive Director, Bolton Colburn. Fred's daughter, Kaui Hart Hemmings, wrote the novel, "The Descendants”, whose film version with George Clooney, is nominated for 5 Oscars.

Kemp Aaberg and Richard Yelland working on 12 Miles North: the Nick Gabeldon Story.

Stoked Groms, Noah Cordoza, Dean Michael, and Ben Cordoza.

Mark Weiner, San Diego charger Richard Kenvin, and designer/shaper Carl Ekstrom.

Scott Bass, Wade Koniakowsky and Barry Haun hold up a piece of fiberglass and resin taken from a Matt Kivlin Malibu Chip that is being restored. Wade will be painting the artwork for the Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction directly on the fiberglass.

Michael "Salt" Labita with the Jed Noll, Steven Thomas model that he created the artwork for.

Charlie Fernandez (Jimmy Buffett's manager), and Russ Kunkle (long time drummer for Jackson Browne) came by for a visit. Charlie is now the proud owner of the JP St Pierre (Surfy Surfy) customized Enjoy handplane.

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Hap Jacobs "Celebrating 60 Years of Shaping" Opens November 15, 5-8pm

October 9, 2014, 2:24 pm

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Hap Jacobs

"Celebrating 60 Years of Shaping"

In 1960, Jacobs opened the Jacobs Surfboards shop at 422 Pacific Coast Highway during the "golden years" of surfing, when the Beach Boys music hit the bandstand and Bud Browne, John Severson and Grant Rohloff movies were screened at local theaters. Surfer magazine was also becoming a must-have for every surfer. Jacobs was regarded as one of surfing's finest craftsmen.

Exhibit Opening Night, Saturday, November 15, 5-8pm

SHACC

110 Calle Iglesia · San Clemente · 92672

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Longboard Collector's Club Annual SHACC Meet

October 9, 2014, 2:38 pm

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ANNUAL EVENT AT SHACC
SATURDAY OCTOBER 25!
Dawn to 1pm

We're going to pull some photos, vintage mags, and other collectible items and have them for sale.
CLICK HERE to visit the LBCC website

SHACC
110 Calle Iglesia · San Clemente · CA 92672

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The Endless Summer 50th Anniversary Contest

February 28, 2014, 11:10 am

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Jacobs Exhibit Items

September 8, 2014, 1:27 pm

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In the past, Jacobs team riders included David Nuuhiwa, Miki Dora, Lance Carson, Mike Purpus, Mike Doyle, Dru Harrison, Robert August, Paul Strauch, Rick Irons, Johnny Fain, Henry Ford, Sparky Hudson, Kemp Aaberg, Herb Torrens, and many more. This is Herb Torrens' team shirt from back in the day, and these 2 Transition Era Jacobs boards on loan from Britt Tobia, will be on display as part of our Jacobs exhibit which runs from November 15, 2014 - January 15, 2015.

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Aloha Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

November 11, 2014, 10:52 am

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It's with sadness that we wave farewell to one of surfing's early pioneers, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz. He lived his life his way, but he also spread a message of holistic well-being, surfing's benefits, and love. He leaves behind an amazing eclectic family who each have carved out their own paths in life, ones that Doc would surely approve. Aloha Doc, we know you are smiling wherever you are!

Here are some insights into Doc on The Inertia and also a nice piece on Matt Warshaw's Encyclopedia of Surfing.

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Whitey Harrison Surfboard

September 9, 2014, 1:44 pm

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Pictured above is Bill "Fubar" Faerber, with our Whitey Harrison foam board, #161, shaped in 1959 for Bill. It's on display at the Hobie Surf Shop in Dana Point as part of SHACC's"Surfing Innovators Series" exhibit, along with a lot of other great memorabilia and photos attributed to California legendary waterman, Lorrin "Whitey" Harrison. Bill and his family stopped by SHACC and told us about the Whitey board he originally owned, so we directed him to go check it out at the Hobie shop. He sent us this photo along with the story shown below (CLICK on the letter to enlarge).

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Coming in February

December 1, 2014, 5:10 pm

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"What Box? Thinking Outside traditional Lines of Surfboard Design"
Featuring work by Carl Ekstrom, Tom Morey, Donald Brink and Ryan Burch. This exhibit is made possible through the generous support of

John Mazza, Founder of the Malibu Surfing Museum at Pepperdine.

SHACC

110 Calle Iglesia · San Clemente · 92672

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A Swizzle!

September 10, 2014, 11:55 am

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In honor of our upcoming exhibit, "What Box? Thinking Outside traditional Lines of Surfboard Design", featuring work by Tom Morey, Carl Ekstrom, Donald Brink and Ryan Burch, we decided to feature this recently donated Morey "Swizzle" from Don Bishop.

Below is an article on the Swizzle that appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune, back nearly a decade ago:

A whole new wave
Tom Morey wants surfers to try the Swizzle Stick, a soft board that's designed to shred

By Rachel Laing
STAFF WRITER

April 24, 2005

OCEANSIDE – People who spent their youth in coastal Southern California since the 1970s probably had their summer memories touched by Tom Morey.

Morey, who whiled away his own youth on local beaches, invented the Boogie board, the spongy bodyboard that has become a fixture on garage-wall hooks throughout the region.

Now, nearly 35 years after the Boogie's debut, Morey is ready to launch another innovation in wave-riding: the soft-performance surfboard.

To hard-core surfers, it might seem Morey is dreaming the impossible dream."Soft" and "performance" are mutually exclusive, they'll tell you. Soft boards are for beginners and vacationers from the corn-producing states. If you want to shred, you shell out the bucks for a board with a fiberglass shell.

But Morey, who's been surfing since the days of wooden boards, sees plenty of room for improvement to today's hard surfboard. He's spent the past decade working on a board he believes does a better job of preserving the fun of surfing while removing some of the peril hard boards pose to surfers' heads and faces.

"In my view, surfing isn't about constantly being in jeopardy," he said.

Dubbed the Swizzle Stick, Morey's board is shaped of polypropylene foam, the same lightweight, shock-absorbent material that's inside modern car bumpers. The foam core is covered with a vibrantly colored skin of polyethylene, an inexpensive, waxy plastic, that is heat-seared onto the shape. The only hard surface on the board is the wooden spine, called a stringer, that runs up the middle of all surfboards to give them stability.

While it's hardly pillow-soft, the board's slight give makes the threat of being nailed in the head less menacing.

"You need to get bumped a little to get the idea," Morey said. "But you won't get maimed."

Morey has spent about a decade designing the Swizzle, trying out various materials, shapes and manufacturing processes. He was assisted by Chuck Herpick, an old surfing buddy he's known since the 1940s, with input from Jimmy Linville of J.L. Designs, a well-known local custom bodyboard maker thatshares workshop space in Oceanside with Morey's Y Surfboards.

The Swizzle Stick went through hundreds of iterations before the fine-tuning process started a few years ago. For this phase, Morey relied on a small network of serious surfers who bought early versions of the board to help work out the final kinks. Anyone who had a problem could exchange the board for a newer version, so Morey was always aware of design flaws.

One early user was Richard Ruiz, who works from his beachfront condo in Oceanside and surfs daily. Ruiz has witnessed the evolution of the Swizzle Stick through experimentation with various materials, problems with leaks and stringers that break.

Recently, he said, he wrote to Morey and Herpick to tell them they'd done it at last: They made a soft board that performed as well as a hard board while offering several advantages hard boards can't match.

Ruiz said the board is extremely buoyant without being bouncy. Its softness makes it comfortable to lie on and to kneel on for paddling. Best of all, he said, the board inspires a confidence hard boards don't.

"I take off on waves on the Swizzle that I otherwise wouldn't take off on because I'd be measuring the consequences," Ruiz said. "If I know I'm going to hit something, with fiberglass, I just pass on it."

Paul Mears, who discovered the Swizzle Stick at an Encinitas surf shop, said another advantage of the board is its resistance to "dings," nicks in the shell of hard boards that will cause them to leak.

"It's completely ding-resistant," Mears said. "It doesn't absorb water, no matter what happens to it."

That quality makes it a good traveling board, Mears said. He has taken his to Hawaii and surfed in contests with it.

The Swizzle is sold over the Internet and from Y Surfboard's production facility on South Cleveland Avenue in Oceanside, as well as a few surf shops in California and Hawaii.

Now that the board is ready for consumer sales, the company is anticipating a swell in demand and plans to license the board out to a manufacturer for an upfront fee and royalties.

With all that the Swizzle has going for it, the biggest challenge for Y Surfboards might be overcoming surfers' dismissive attitude toward soft boards.

Mears recalls a story of a fellow surfer's initial disdain upon paddling over to him in the water to check out his Swizzle Stick.

"He grabs it and says, 'Aw, a sponger,'" Mears said. "Then I took off and did really well on the wave, and the guy couldn't believe how I could surf."

The Swizzle Stick, while less expensive than hard boards, is an investment. A 9-foot board retails for about $600.

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Just in Time for the Holidays, the Special Editions Release of "The Surf Riders of Hawaii"

December 11, 2014, 4:22 pm

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After 15 years of dedication to this project, we are proud to announce the publication of two (2) Limited Edition Publications to honor the 100 year anniversary of "The Surf Riders of Hawaii"

The "The Surf Riders of Hawaii" Edition

• Done in co-operation with the Gurrey/Bayer/Murray families.

• Includes the restored "The Surf Riders of Hawaii".

• Hand made to the original specifications.

• All text restored to match the original craftsman style lettering.

• All photos restored and printed using the "silver halide" method, as used by A.R. Gurrey Jr. in 1914.

• Comes inside the "The Surf Riders of Hawaii" slip case, to protect your collectable.

• A limited and individually numbered edition of 100 Hand Made books from Hawaiʻi with special SHACC Certificate.

The Centennial Edition

• Done in co-operation with the Gurrey/Bayer/Murray families.

• Includes 2 books: The restored "The Surf Riders of Hawaii" and "The Life & Times of A. R. Gurrey Jr." by Joel T. Smith & Sandra K. Hall, with new information on Gurrey. Including five restored photos by A. R. Gurrey Jr., including "The Duke Diving, shown above."

• Hand made to the original specifications.

• All text restored to match the original craftsman style lettering.

• All photos restored and printed using the "silver halide" method, as used by A.R. Gurrey Jr. in 1914.

• Comes inside the "Centennial Edition" presentation box, to protect your collectable.

• Limited and individually numbered edition of 50 Hand Made books from Hawaiʻi with special SHACC Certificate.

To order either edition, CLICK HERE.

In this photo, you can compare an original 1912 "Gray" version of the book with the new the restored version.

"Hana Hou" the magazine of Hawaiian Airlines featured an article on A. R. Gurrey Jr. and the "The Surf Riders of Hawaii, Centennial Edition".

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Hobie Sailboard

October 11, 2014, 3:30 pm

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Justin Rogina's neighbor in Hawaii was throwing this out when Justin rescued this early model Hobie sailboard. (Number 4, circa 1980s). Justin in turn donated it to SHACC. Asymmetrical templates are far more prevalent in sailboard design, we have asymmetrical sailboards designed by Velzy and Gerry Lopez in our collection as well. Velzy called his the "Can Opener".

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Original Jams

December 6, 2014, 11:50 am

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Click on the letter above to view at a legible size.

As much as I'd love to wear these and get my "Fernando" on, I think they deserve to be housed in our archive and put on display when we redo our Evolution of Surfboard Design timeline. We'll be turning it into the History of Surfing timeline and we'll be including all sorts of gems from our collection, including trunks, wetsuits, leashes, skateboards, etc. This huge undertaking will be starting soon! PS, thanks Bing for thinking of me, I'd totally rock these if I didn't feel they needed to be put to better use than just updating my wardrobe!

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Big Wave Gun

December 10, 2014, 2:53 pm

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The initial wave riding sequence of "Die Another Day" was filmed at Peahi (Jaws) off the North coast of Maui, in December 2001. The footage shows three surfers exchanging surf lines, during a large swell. Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama and Darrick Doerner were the surfers called in to play the actors' in this opening surf scene.

Darrick Doerner gave this prop from the film (it's made of black rubber) to Ed Clapp and Ed in turn just donated it to us. 00Cool.

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Monthly Group Ukulele Lessons At SHACC!

February 11, 2015, 10:45 am

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Here's the group from our first gathering, it was a blast! Photo: Linda Michael

Monthly Lessons Every Third Tuesday of the Month
We're Looking at Tuesday, March 18 (St. Patty's) for our next gathering!

The Ukulele is a fun, traditional Hawaiian instrument that sings in the key of aloha. SHACC is pleased to announce that we are now offering our members monthly group ukulele lessons for just $8 per session.

Non-members can join SHACC online at: http://store.surfingheritage.org/membership.asp to be eligible to participate, or may sign up for membership onsite prior to class.

Lessons will take place on the third Tuesday of each month from 7:00 - 9:00 pm beginning February 17. Classes will be instructed by Lincoln Kaio. Lincoln was born and raised in Laie, Oahu and is the brother of accomplished Hawaiian surfer, Kealoha Kaio. A colorful, talented and fun-loving man, Lincoln enjoys sharing Hawai'i's traditional music through his ukulele classes. His ukulele group, ULU, has been entertaining at events and parties throughout Southern California for years.

Lincoln is also the hula musician for Halau O Lilinoe/Na Pua Me Ke Aloha, a halau (Hawaiian hula dance studio) started by his wife, Sissy Kaio, in 1980. Their hula group performs annually at the prestigious Merrie Monarch Festival on the island of Hawai'i, where they have garnered numerous awards.

Dust off your ukulele... or go out and buy one, and start learning to play this popular stringed instrument. Invite your friends...and together you can look forward to a fun and entertaining musical experience each month at SHACC. For more information, call 949-388-0313.

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Pacific Beach Surf Club's Yearbooks

February 11, 2015, 2:49 pm

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Richard Steadham, historian and Yearbook Editor for the Pacific Beach Surf Club, donated these copies along with the program for Bobby Challenger Thomas' Paddle Out. If there are other surf clubs out there who would like to do the same, we encourage you to please do so. That way we can start to build a collection of these for the SHACC archives. Mahalo!

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Joyce Hoffman's Fin

February 12, 2015, 3:06 pm

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This fin, signed by Joyce Hoffman and Terry Martin, came along with a Joyce Hoffman model surfboard that was Joyce's own rider, shaped by Terry. Donated by Don Granata, in 2011, it will be one of the boards featured in our upcoming "Trailblazers in Women's Surfing" exhibit, opening on April 25, 2015. Joyce is certainly a "trailblazer" and has been a longtime supporter of Surfing Heritage.

By 1963 Hoffman was among the best women surfers in the state; from 1964 to 1967 she was nearly invincible in competition, placing first in the United States Surfing Association's year-end ratings four years in a row, and posting multiple victories in the United States Surfing Championships (1965, 1966, and 1967), the Makaha International (1964, 1966), and the Laguna Masters (1965, 1967). Hoffman's 1965 World Championships win in Lima, Peru, went virtually unnoticed by the surf press (Surfer magazine dispatched with the women's portion of the event in a single sentence), but earned her the first of dozens of general-interest magazine feature articles, including a Sports Illustrated profile titled "An Odd Sport, and an Unusual Champion," in which Hoffman is quoted as saying, "If I didn't think I was considered the best I'd quit." (excerpt from Matt Warshaw's Encyclopedia of Surfing)

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Vintage Map of California Surf Spots

February 15, 2015, 1:30 pm

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Donated by Mark Matyas and Roger Nance (Beach House, Santa Barbara), this cool map done circa late 60s-early 70s describes the various surf breaks that were popular in California during this era. No secret spots are listed, Stanley's is no longer in existence and Tressels might be a typo. Jus sayin'.

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A Very Modern Piece of Equipment!

February 16, 2015, 11:16 am

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Dane Hantz and one of his creations, photo: Barry Haun

This 5'5" x 20.5" x 2.5" planning hull was designed and built by Dane Hantz of Vulcan surfboards, San Diego, CA. This board is a representation of current trends in small wave design, intended for nimble performance in average California conditions. The construction however, represents a departure from the typical methods and materials used in the surf industry. Most notably, this surfboard has no internal wooden stringer, rather the design gains its structural integrity from the elliptical corrugations seen in the deck. The glassing schedule uses a vacuum bagged plain weave carbon fiber over a 1.9# recycled EPS core. The use of carbon fiber allows the lowest material use when compared to fiberglass while achieving a greater mechanical longevity. The end result is a board which is not only as strong as traditional surfboards but drastically lower in weight.

Donated by Vulcan, this board will be the "end cap" to our "Evolution of Surfboard Design" timeline, which is currently being redone. We'll be moving the early wood boards to the left side of the showroom and incorporating some of the other items we have; trunks, shaping tools, photos, wetsuits, etc., in order to tell a more complete story of the history of surfing. We'll also be breaking it down into eras of surfing, so be sure and come for a visit to see how things progress.

To learn more about Vulcan Surfboards, visit their website by CLICKING HERE.

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SHACC Visitors

February 14, 2015, 3:30 pm

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We get a wide range of visitors on any given day. Local groms, legends, pros, and a fair number from foreign lands.

The Bernice Ayer's surf team with SHACC Executive Director, Paul Strauch, and SHACC docents, Duncan Wilson and Dillon Joyce. Getting some surf history lessons. Photo: Linda Michael

Surfline's Dave Gilovich, doing some research in the SHACC library. Photo: Linda Michael

Dylan, Bill and Scott Thomson with SHACC Founder, Dick Metz. Photo: Linda Michael

SHACC's Cindy Rincon, John Leininger, legendary shaper, Phil Becker, Steve Mangiali and Rob Sachse. Photo: Linda Michael

Lauren Lilley and David Howard visiting from Houston, Texas. Photo: Linda Michael

Scott Bass (SHACC Board member and creator of The Boardroom) and another legendary shaper, Maurice Cole. Photo: Linda Michael

TK Brimer from the Frog House and SHACC curator, Barry Haun, posing by Ron Croci's painting of Captain Cooks arrival in Hawaii. Photo: Linda Michael

Felix Giulioni, and Christian and Max Giesser from Cinecraft, were here from Vienna, Austria, filming Paul Strauch, Dick Metz, Steve Pezman, Tom Morey, and Mickey Muñoz. Photo: Linda Michael

Rusty and Kyle Drumm and Paul Strauch. Photo: Linda Michael

Shaper Bill Shrosbee (Fresh Pineapple) and Ned McMahon. This is a board Bill shaped for Miki Dora (hence the Cat paw). Photo: Linda Michael

The Doheny Longboard Surfing Association Surf Team held their annual Christmas Party at SHACC. Photo: Linda Michael

Paul Strauch and Jason Shugar. Jason flew out from Pennsylvania to attend the paddle out for Doc Paskowitz. Photo: Linda Michael

Paul Strauch and Moses Paskowitz. Photo: Linda Michael

Barbara and Charlie Moir from Capetown, South Africa. Photo: Linda Michael

Bob, Leigh, and Bill Faerber, and Nicole and Shaun Campbell. We have a really cool story from Bill about a Whitey Harrison board that ended up in our collection, that we'll be sharing soon in our "Gem of the Week". Photo: Linda Michael

Charlie Fernandez, Paul Strauch, Linda Michael, Jimmy Buffett (yes, that Jimmy Buffett) and Steve Dunn. Photo: Barry Haun

Docent and Surf Ed Committee chair, Duncan Wilson, giving tour to Damian and Xavier Court and their friends after a day at SanO . Photo: Linda Michael

Barry Haun, Jerry Wallner, Steve Wible, Henry Ford and Paul Strauch, holding a vintage Jacobs. Photo: Linda Michael