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Tom Morey (born Detroit, Michigan, August 15, 1935) also known by the moniker "Y" is a musician, engineer, and surfer responsible for several technological innovations that have heavily influenced modern developments in surfing equipment design. Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area - City 370. ...
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Buttons Kaluhiokalani at Banzai Pipeline, December 1981 Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried by a breaking wave on a surfboard. ...
Background Morey was living in Laguna Beach, California, by 1944 and was avidely developing his talent for drumming in his youth and became a professional musician in the 1950's. While surfing as a hobby he attended the University of Southern California and graduated with a B.A. in mathematics in 1957. He married in 1957 and worked for Douglas Aircraft, as a process engineer in composites. After Douglas, he worked a series of jobs involving composite materials and processes, which he applied to his surf-related inventions. He left the corporate world for good in 1964, moved to Ventura and started a series of companies that served the surfing market, currently Morey Surfboards and sponsored surfing competitions such as the The Tom Morey Invitational. He divorced in the late 1960's. Laguna Beach is the name of several places in the United States, and a TV show: Laguna Beach in California Laguna Beach in Florida Laguna Beach the reality soap opera on MTV This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...
A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ...
The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ...
The Douglas Aircraft Company was founded by Donald Wills Douglas in July 1921. ...
Ventura is the name of several places in the United States of America: Ventura, California Ventura, Iowa Ventura County, California Ventura may also refer to one of the following people: Charlie Ventura, American band leader Jean-Baptiste Ventura (ca. ...
Morey is an adherent of the Bahá'í Faith since about 1970 after he came across a picnic at a Kauai beach, a 'unity feast', where "whites, blacks and Hawaiians, mixed, getting along fine" and in couple of months of attending informal meetings on Bahá'í teachings - "...this was really something important not to toy with, but to become immersed in."[1] "I withdrew immediately from alcohol, drugs and sexual promiscuity," he says. "I began saying Baha'i prayers such as 'convey upon me, oh, my God, a thought, which will turn this planet into a rose garden.'"[2] And he married Marchia Nichols, now Marchia Ann Morey, "mother of bodyboarding" and his four sons. Seat of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel, governing body of the BaháÃs The Baháà Faith is a religion founded by Baháulláh in 19th century Persia. ...
Kaua‘i (usually called Kauai outside the Hawaiian Islands, pronounced kawa-ee) is the oldest and fourth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands, having an area of 1,430. ...
He sold his surfboarding company in 1975 and lived in Hawaii for a decade, then moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington, and joined Boeing in 1985. In 1992 he moved back to southern California and reentering the surf scene and consulted with his former company as it became owned eventually by Wham-O. He ended consulting in January of 1999 founding his own company again - Starwaves - and changed his name to Y.[2] Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area Ranked 43rd - Total 10,931 sq mi (29,311 km²) - Width n/a miles (n/a km) - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km) - % water 41. ...
Bainbridge Island is an island in Puget Sound, and is an incorporated city located in Kitsap County, Washington. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18 - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,824 km²) - Width 240 miles (385 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 6. ...
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Wham-O is a toy company currently located in California, USA. They are known for inventing many of the most popular modern toys, including the Hula Hoop®, the Frisbee®, and the predecessor of modern Nerf® dart guns. ...
Musician He had honed his talent as a drummer from his youth, working professionally by the age of 12, that he subsequently performed professionally with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Stew Williamson, Bud Shank and Conti Condolli. He was an original member of the Sons of the Beach ukulele band (on ukelele) in 1950 and formed the Tom Morey Jazz Quartet in 1954. He made music a side hooby until Brotherhood at a Mauna Kea Hotel in the later 1970's and 1980's and plays intermittently since the 1990's back in southern California (including the Tom Muray Trio).[3] John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ...
Bud Shank is an American saxophonist. ...
Ukulele The ukulele (ʻukulele in Hawaiian and standard Hawaiian English; pronounced , or the Anglicised ), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. ...
Surfing At the age of 11 he came in second in the Green Valley Lake Paddleboard Championships and began surfing in 1952 and wake-surfed behind an ocean-going yacht (no towrope) in April of 1955.
After working for the corporate world he became a member, and then sponsored surfer, of the Velzy and Jacobs Surf team, then Jacobs, then Dewey Weber surf teams and began setting up businesses providing surf boards and inventing technologies for surf boards -
- In the late 1950's he created his first "concave nose pocket"
- Also in the 1950's he invented something he called the "Wing Tip," a turned-down nose using his aerospace engineering expertese, and is used in all surfboards today.[4]
- In 1964, he created the first polypropylene fin as the first commercial interchangeable fin system.
- In 1965 he used resin impregnated cardboard to make a "paper" surfboard which became a Television Commercial and an August 1966, a full color, two page advertisement in Reader's Digest.[5]
- In 1965 he established the Tom Morey Invitational Nose Riding Championships, at Ventura Point.[6]
- In 1971, he designed the first practical bodyboard[7], called in those days a Boogie Board after his love of music.
- In 1975 these boards became flexible with twin fiberglass rods for stability.
He left commercial surfboarding interests in the late 1970's and returned to it in the 1990's. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
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1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
Bodyboarder getting major air at The Wedge A bodyboard, known in surfing slang as a sponge, is a form of surfboard consisting of a small roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Quote - "When a guy removes smoking, drinking, gambling and chasing women from his life, there's a whole lot of time to do other neat stuff."[2]
References - ^ Sultan of surf, baron of boogie (Apr 06)
- ^ a b c Surfline bio - Tom Morey, aka Y
- ^ This Week's Jazz Calendar - Tom Morey Trio Schedule in Dec. 2006
- ^ comments by Mike Doyle
- ^ Paper Surfboard - Tom Morey tells the story of how the paper surfboard began
- ^ The Tom Morey Invitational, July 4, 1965, Ventura Point
- ^ LATimes.com Stoking the masses Once upon a time, folks rode waves on surfboards or air mattresses. Then Tom Morey put an iron to a hunk of foam.
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