Duke Boyd America

Legends of Surfing:
The Greatest Surfriders
from Duke Kahanamoku
to Kelly Slater
by Duke Boyd

In the Spring of 1963, this guy walked into Ole Surfboards on Bay Boulevard in Seal Beach, California, where I worked as manager Mickey Muñoz's left-hand man. This was a time when surf shops sold surfboards, period! The use of neoprene wetsuits hadn't yet arrived, and the only other auxiliary income such as a retail operation might allow itself to derive came from patching dinged boards. Selling other stuff was considered sissy.

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Hang Ten founder Duke Boyd was born in Kansas City in 1934 and began surfing at age 12 in Waikiki. In 1960 Boyd asked seamstress Doris Boeck to stitch together a durable pair of surf trunks he designed. The first-ever "board-shorts" to be capable of withstanding the rigors of surfing were an instant success with surfers and beach-goers along the California coast and the Hang Ten brand was born. For the next decade, the company’s trademark horizontal stripes and personality-filled ad campaign took the surf world by storm. Boyd sold Hang Ten in 1970 and later played a roll in the success of Lightning Bolt.

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