Burns, Ronnie (1963 – 1990)

Quiet, unpretentious pro surfer from the North Shore of Oahu; best remembered as a Pipeline sharpshooter throughout the 1980s.

Burns was born (1963) in Newport Beach, California, the son of ace surfboard laminator Boscoe Burns; he began surfing in 1969 at age five, not long after moving with his family to Hawaii, and by his late teenage years, the tall (6' 2"), blond, slightly bow-legged Burns had earned a reputation across the North Shore as a versatile and powerful waverider, able to set t...