"BOBBY OWENS: THE QUIET COMPETITOR," BY PAUL HOLMES

This profile article ran in the April 1982 issue of SURFER. It has been slightly shortened and edited. * * * Bobby Owens is a most unusual surfer. Small in stature, fair-skinned and freckled and, well, skinny. At 140 lbs., he’s hardly the archetypal Big-Wave Rider. Yet Owens' home break and favorite spot is Sunset Beach. And since he lives just a stone’s throw up the green tropical hillside behi...

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