Campbell brothers, Malcolm and Duncan (1952 – ) (1955 – )

Innovative, low-key surfboard shaper-designers from Southern California; creators of the bonzer design in the early 1970s. Malcolm and Duncan Campbell were born (1952 and 1955, respectively) in Santa Monica, and began surfing in 1965; the following year they moved with their family to Oxnard, just south of Ventura. In 1968, their father encouraged them to build their own surfboards, and later suggested that they experiment with a three-fin setup (virtually all boards at the time had one fin)....