Corky: When that garage sale purchase pays off
Surfing columnist Corky Carroll gets the story of when a surfboard was saved from a garage sale only to connect some dots.
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Surfing columnist Corky Carroll gets the story of when a surfboard was saved from a garage sale only to connect some dots.
The California Surf Museum honors people who made a lasting mark on the sport since 2009.
“Everyone has a Butch story.” So says author Douglas Cavanaugh about surfer Butch Van Artsdalen. And so says Carl Ekstrom. And Mike Hynson. And Hank Warner. And Melinda Merryweather. And members of the Windansea Surf Club. To share their stories, Cavanaugh wrote and recently published “Remembering Butch: The Butch Van Artsdalen Story,” a biography about the surf legend who rode the waves at Ehukai Beach in Hawaii known as the Banzai Pipeline and lived in La Jolla for five years and surfed at Windansea Beach. He died at age 38 in 1979. “When I get into something, I get into the hist...