FLASHBACKS PART 3

Venice High School buddies Pete Salutes and Phil Lee sitting on the hood of our 55 Chevy we purchased by pooling our cash. $175. It drank 2 quarts of oil for a round trip from Waikiki to the north shore. 1967

Maui beach pad. 1978


North Shore house 1971

Two views of Yokohama on a small day. 1967

Kimo Wilder McVay, founder of the Duke contest teamed with Hobie Hawaii, hired shapers Don Koplien and Ryan Dotson on the North Shore trying to change the Hobie Image from old to new school. Hard to pull off with the old time DUKE logo in 1969. We had these radical wild guns shaped by Dotson with the DUKE crowned logo on the deck. It was a catch 22. Kimo insisted on the old school logo. We sold the DUKE guns in the Hobie shop. Honolulu International Center Surf Expo 1968
Ala Moana Surf Contest: 2nd place, 1968. 1st place: Jimmy Blears (R.I.P.) 1969. The 7'10" was a short board in those days