RIP Tom Morey, inventor of the Boogie Board

Born 8/15/36 in Detroit Mich., Died 10/14/21 in Laguna Hills CA.He was 86. He started his own surf shop after working as an engineer at Douglas Aircraft and n 1964 he started to experiment with surfboard shapes. After moving to Hawaii, in 1971 he shaped a 3 1/2 'ft piece of polyethyene into what would be latter called the Boogie Board and a seaside sensation. Surf Historian Jim Kempton called Morey the Ben Franklin of surfing. "He probably brought more people to ride waves then any single person in the histoy of surfing. That' s a huge accomplishment".