Tom Morey died blind and broke

[NorCalRiverRat]

Free-thinking inventor of the boogie board and surfing hall-of-famer, Tom Morey, dead at 86: “Hello. I am a spaceman. I am the spirits of Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Bob Simmons!”

One of surfing’s great gifts to the world, the inventor Tom Morey, has died a couple of months after his eighty-sixth birthday.

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[DarkHorseRacing]

These things were big when I was a kid. Now I hardly see them anymore. Once in awhile I'll see them in a surf store but they are more likely to be some knock off, and they've been modernized to not give you that foam rash. They were fun for the ocean, riding waves in, doing tricks etc.

 

[was thatguy]

These things were big when I was a kid. Now I hardly see them anymore. Once in awhile I'll see them in a surf store but they are more likely to be some knock off, and they've been modernized to not give you that foam rash. They were fun for the ocean, riding waves in, doing tricks etc.

I was a fan. Rip

 

[Ziggy]

I couldn't surf but I kicked ass on a boogie board. Almost died a few times, invincible teen/twenty something feared nothing.
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RIP Tom, thank you for creating the tool for so many epic memories!

 

[was thatguy]

I couldn't surf but I kicked ass on a boogie board. Almost died a few times, invincible teen/twenty something feared nothing.
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RIP Tom, thank you for creating the tool for so many epic memories!

Same.
Makapuu ate my lunch more than once. Broke ribs and dislocated shoulder on one Beach crash.
Sandy’s as well but it is a smaller break.
My favorite boogie board beach of all time is Waimea by far.
Spent almost a year every weekend on that boogie board in Hawaii. At first the locals and lifeguards ran me off quite a bit. Then they’d start giving me pointers and sort of line me out.
After about 3 months I could go out during closed beaches with the locals.
I’ll never forget the first time a lifeguard at Makapuu called me “local”...I was beaming with pride! Lol
A white guy was arguing because the lifeguard beached him during a closed beach. (Undertows and maybe a 6’ break, closed flags were posted)
The dude says “why does that guy get to go out?”
Lifeguard said “he’s local”...
Even now it makes me smile!!

 

[rrrr]

I was boogie boarding at Waimea, hit the bottom so hard it filled up the pockets of my OP shorts with sand. I thought my ribs were broken.

This was supposed to be fun!

 

[rmarion]

our grandkids are rocking them..

 

[was thatguy]

I was boogie boarding at Waimea, hit the bottom so hard it filled up the pockets of my OP shorts with sand. I thought my ribs were broken.

This was supposed to be fun!

Lol!
That’s what I did at Makapuu.
Came off the top and free fell like 8’ or more straight onto the sand...then the water crashed onto me. That’s the day I went to the emergency room.
I’ll try to find the picture. I’m wrapped up in bandages like a freaking chalupa.
After that I learned real fast to traverse and to kick out. My favorite move was a barrel roll out over the back. I’d try back flips out but never quite pulled it off.

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Looks like everyone and their brother started knocking them off when the patent ran out. Loved mine as a kid. Surfing and behind the boat.

 

[HBCraig]

I had several boogie boards. My son has 2 eight now. Still rocks them both

 

[brianwhiteboy]

I saw my first nice pair of tanned ( . ) ( . ) at Makapuu. Such an amazing beach for body and boogie boarding.

 

[was thatguy]

I saw my first nice pair of tanned ( . ) ( . ) at Makapuu. Such an amazing beach for body and boogie boarding.

Yep!
No fins allowed.
When it’s stood up and steady it is just outstanding.

 

[was thatguy]

This is a closed beach day at Makapuu.
No beach break and no one in the water inside.
This would be the biggest I’d ever go out in at Makapuu, and it took a long time to get to where I could do it, and to where they’d let me go out at all on a closed beach.
I love that place! Now I miss it.

 

[Danger Dave]

Stand up and be counted.

 

[teded]

Still catch a few, Oceanside ca 7-21

 

[RiverDave]

Didn’t know him, but he sure provided a lot of good times for myself and friends in my youth! Wonderful legacy

 

[Ziggy]

View attachment 1059136 Still catch a few, Oceanside ca 7-21

Just a few blocks away from my former dealership, which is now Bagby Beer Co.

 

[teded]

Just a few blocks away from my former dealership, which is now Bagby Beer Co.

Have an occasional Beer there