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Nat Young – Nat’s Nat and That’s That!

Robert “Nat” Young was born in 1947 in Sydney, Australia. He began surfing at age 10. Six years later, he won the open division of the 1963 Australian Invitational Surfing Championships, as…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Archive Exhibits

Eddie Aikau

Eddie Aikau had the lineage of a king, and he became a modern member of Hawaii’s royal pantheon. A descendant of Hewahewa, the kahuna nui (high priest) King Kamehameha I and his…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Archive Exhibits

The Legendary Greg Noll

Colorful, charismatic, headstrong, and larger-than-life, Greg Noll was born in 1937 and decided early on that being around the ocean was to be his life. When he was a youngster, the family…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Current Exhibits

The Plastic Fantastic Surfboard Company was established in 1968, and built surfboards in small factories in Hawaii and California. After 1972 they were made only in Huntington Beach, California. This mid-1970s "Sting"…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Archive Exhibits

The 1966 World Championships – A Defining Moment in Competitive Surfing

Although the competitive field was full of excellent surfers from seven nations, the matchup between California’s David Nuuhiwa and Australia’s Nat Young was considered as the ultimate test of both skill and…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Archive Exhibits

Making Boards the Hurley Way!

Bob Hurley started out as a surfboard shaper in Huntington Beach in the 1970s. Throughout the years, Bob has shaped thousands of board for surfers like Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, Jay Adams, Carissa…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Archive Exhibits

Billabong Salute to Pipeline

Three factors inspired the concept of this exhibit: the legendary reputation of the wave at Pipeline, the epic history of the Pipeline Masters contest, and the virtuoso skills and equipment of the…

CSMApril 8, 2019

Stories

Mike “Tiki Mike” Doyle…RIP

There are very few surfers nowadays that know anything about what kind of man Mike Doyle was....or rather, what was his connection, actually, to the ocean? When we think of Mike, we…

CSMMay 24, 2019

Stories

The Evolution of the Fin

The evolution of the fin from Tom Blake’s first prototype was a slow process, sometimes taking two steps forward and one step back. The keel fin that Blake first created was modified…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Current Exhibits

World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater’s Surfboard

Kelly Slater, a supernaturally talented pro surfer from Cocoa Beach, Florida, has reinvented virtually every aspect of high-performance surfing. “his competitive statistics numb the brain” world champion Shaun Tomson said of Slater,…

CSMApril 9, 2019

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Nat Young – Nat’s Nat and That’s That!

Eddie Aikau

The Legendary Greg Noll

Plastic Fantastic

The 1966 World Championships – A Defining Moment in Competitive Surfing

Making Boards the Hurley Way!

Billabong Salute to Pipeline

Mike “Tiki Mike” Doyle…RIP

The Evolution of the Fin

World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater’s Surfboard

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