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Phlegmatic surf competition judge from Hawaii, and cofounder of Lightning Bolt Surfboards. Shipley was nine in 1961 when he moved with his family from Baltimore, Maryland, to Oahu. He later worked for the Hobie Surfboards outlet in Honolulu, and in 1966 judged his first surf contest.

Shipley and Pipeline master surfer Gerry Lopez, funded by Shipley's life savings of $2,500, opened the first Lighting Bolt shop in Honolulu in 1970; Bolt would dominate the Hawaiian big-wave board market for the rest of the decade, and into the early '80s. Two or three years later, after the company grew too big and imploded, Shipley ended up with more or less the same amount of money as when he started.

Shipley meanwhile continued to judge contests at every level, and was regarded as one of the most knowledgeable and trenchant observers of the Hawaiian surf scene. Hired by the world pro tour, Shipley was director of judging from 1976 to 1982, and as of 2012 he'd worked as a judge at every single Pipeline Masters event—although, as Shipley admitted in 2008, "the competitive aspect of the sport has become too self-important. As surfing inches closer and closer to basketball and footballl, something is gained, but a whole lot of stuff is lost."

Shipley, Jack

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