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LOS ANGELES -- The stout waves off the Kona coastline on Hawaii's Big Island were still the domain of stand-up surfers as Tom Morey fiddled in his garage with a 9-foot plank of polyethylene foam, an electric carving knife and an iron he'd borrowed from a neighbor.
Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was
A lifelong dreamer and tinkerer, Tom Morey created a stubby, lightweight bodyboard that changed beach culture forever. He was 86.
The prolific longboarder and father of the boogie board is larger than life. Read the tributes to Tom Morey, the man who revolutionized wave riding forever.
Tom Morey unveils his Universal Numeral System (UNS) January 1, 2021 | Bodyboarding For the 50th anniversary of the original Morey Boogie board, the father of the bodyboard and the sport of bodyboarding is revamping one of his most exciting creations - the Universal Numeral System (UNS). Tom Morey's Universal Numeral System is a series of 11 symbols or glyphs - ten numbers and the decimal separator - that aim to deliver a more clear and easy to read numeral writing system. The concept could very well be adopted in future names of bodyboard models. For example, Mach 2021 - who knows? There ar...