Brewer, Dick (1936 – 2022)
Brilliant but moody surfboard designer-shaper from Hanalei, Kauai, Hawaii, generally regarded as the sport's most influential boardmaker; creator of the popular Bing Pipeliner model longboard in 1967, and venerated in the late '60s and early '70s as the first master of shortboard design. "He's got the magic eye," Hawaiian surfer Jeff Hakman said. "Outlines, fins, edges, contours; he knew how to put everything together."
Brewer was born (1936) near Duluth, Minnesota, the son of an aircraft ma...