Rawson, Pat

Even-keeled, hard-working surfboard shaper from Sunset Beach, Hawaii; regarded by many as the maker of the world's finest big-wave boards during the 1980s and '90s. "There was a point," TransWorld Surf magazine wrote in 2001, "where any traveling pro would give a testicle to get a Rawson board while on the North Shore." Rawson was born (1954) and raised in Santa Monica, California and started sur...