Simmons Airplane Wing Construction Technique by John Giles (Aug. 13, 1923 – July 12, 2010) as told to Larry Balma in 2009 When Bob Simmons and I were building these boards, I…
CSMMarch 29, 2020
In 1996 the program started to make its data available in real-time over the internet, including the highly popular swell models. Today, all of CDIP’s data and products are available on the…
CSMApril 9, 2019
The exhibit tells the story of Bethany losing her left arm to a Tiger shark while surfing at Tunnels Beach on Kauai, how she survived that attack through the help of Alana…
CSMApril 9, 2019
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 stinger…
CSMApril 9, 2019
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
In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci experimented with various devices to improve the human physical condition: wings, vehicles and swim fins. At the same time, Hawaiians were leaving petroglyphic records of…
CSMApril 9, 2019
“I took a lot of photos with it, and when I went off to the war, Bill McKusick took it to repair a leak. When I returned four years later in ’54…
CSMApril 9, 2019
