Velzy, Dale

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Swaggering, innovative surfboard designer, builder, and retailer from Hermosa Beach, California, best known for creating the "pig" in 1955, a wide-hipped board that became a prototype for today's longboard. "Dale could out-drink, out-shoot, out-ride, out-shape, out-sell and out-finesse all comers," Surfer's Journal wrote in 1994. "And he made it all up as he went along." Velzy was born (1927) and...

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