As a follow-up addendum to last month’s tribute to shaping guru Dick Brewer, please see the following interview recorded in 2007 in his shaping room at Paumalu, in which he sets the record straight.
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2022/06/06/listen-the-dick-brewer-interview
Highlights include:
00.45 Big Wave Design - how its changed.
02.00 Waimea Gun
02.25 Tow Boards with Darrick & Laird
05.05 The Beginning - the early days for Dick
06.10 building engines for drag boats in his teen years
07.20 Moving to Hawaii in 61 and starting SURFBOARDS HAWAII
08.22 You don’t refuse 'Buffalo’ Keaulana a board
09.45 SURFBOARDS HAWAII
10.05 Bob Shepherd
11.00 Bing Pipeliner with Bing, Butch Van Artsdalen in 1962
12.47 The most influential surfer?
14.11 Midget Farrelly - Joey Cabell - Fred Hemmings
15.20 Surfboards Hawaii
16.25 Jeff Hackman
18.08 Duke Kahanamoku
19.13 Buzzy Trent
19.37 Jim Mizel
19.53 Building concave boards for Vetea David - Teahupoo
20.07 Laird Hamilton, Darrick Doerner & Buzzy Kerbox - towing in at Backyards in 1992
20.33 Jaws
20.55 Poto/Teahupoo
21.15 Built a tow board for Laird/Jaws
22.30 Tow-in boards - the designs
24.06 Laird Hamilton
25.35 Eddie Aikau
26.06 Hackman and Hobie
26.26 Hobie
27.46 Bob McTavish
28.55 George Greenough
29.22 double barrel concave
30.35 V bottom
31.26 Ted Spencer and the mini malibu
33.40 Bob McTavish
35.22 Aussie square bottom
38.34 The short board revolution
39.14 Moving to Kauai
39.33 Test pilots - Reno, Lopez, Hakman then Terry Fitzgerald
40.05 Gary Chapman
40.20 Sammy Hawk
40.38 Reno Abellira
41.32 Pipeline boards
43.00 Mark Richards, shaping with Dick
45.37 Terry Fitzgerald
47.31 Business setbacks
47.51 Brewer sailboards
48.45 Tri-fin boards in 1971 - the 1+2 & the Ala Moana Bowls ContestÂ
50.15 Calling Steve Pezman
50.56 Conversation with Hobie
52.00 staying in the background
52.25 Gerry Lopez - copying his tow fins and sold them to Future Fins
53.45 Going to start Lightning Bolt Surfboards
55.24 Tow-in movement
56.20 Darrick Doerner
56.50 The best thing about surfing?
57.10 The essence of surfing
57.59 What is surfing?
58.09 The experience of surfing