Chapter: 6
The Fortune Seekers
The Divine Miss M
Margo Oberg, 1980. Photo: Darrell Jones
From left: Oberg, Boyer, Poppler, Depolito. Photo: Shirley Rogers
Lynn Boyer. Photo: Jeff Divine
Laura Blears, 1977
Jericho Poppler. Photo: Bernie Baker
Twenty-five women's world tour events were held between 1977 and 1981. Margo Oberg and Lynn Boyer won 20 of them. For five years, no other female pro surfer was even in the game.
In March 1981, a sun-weathered 28-year-old haole-Hawaiian named Margo Oberg made the cover of Surfer. Two months later she became the first woman to get a full-length Surfer profile. The magazine’s editorial staff likely felt the need to start redressing the sport’s history of sexism, which had only intensified over the past decade or so—Surfer, in fact, hadn’t put a woman on the cover since 1964....
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