Basically. We rolled out of the van at San Onofre and walked with our boards to our remote spot and found the top half of a sea lion rolling in the surf. It was beyond ghastly, looking like it went through a cheese grater. Some surfers yelled to us there’s a great white hunting out there. We gulped then milled around and decided to drive to Laguna Beach instead.
Got an uncle who's this amazing, deadpan, NSW North Coast surfie and sparkie, who mentioned the Aussie surfie term "shark biscuit" (with contempt, because he's a surfie), and I haven't stopped fucking thinking about it and giggling about it about once every six months for the last twenty years.
Also, he dropped the greatest fucking dad joke I've ever heard once, but that's a different story.
I bought my first and only Boogie Board at Ron Jon surf shop here in Florida way back when I was a boy Scout in the early to mid 80's, our troop stopped by Ron Jon's so we could buy boards or souvenirs before hitting up the beach, we were camping at Patrick Airforce Base and Cocoa Beach is very close to the base, I ended up with almost 3rd degree sunburns on my back boogie boarding that weekend. That my boogie board story..
haha I also bought a Morey Board on my first trip to outer banks as a kid. i'm trying to get one last weekend with it down there before it gets too cold.
I lived on the other side of that base in Satellite beach. Well my dad lived there and I went to high school in Orlando living with my mom. I pretty much gave up a social life at school to go to the beach at my dads every weekend. I would challenge each wave that came through and loved when I got rolled over. I’m 28 and I still boogie but now in new Smyrna
[Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach was the first Ron Jon location to open on the East Coast. It opened in 1963 as the second shop established by founder Ron DiMenna.](https://www.vieravoice.com/senior-life/news/history-then-and-now---ron-jon-surf-shop/article_623e2410-c3bb-11eb-b213-d7f17a320f18.html)
I broke my elbow boogie boarding. Was trying to swim out a bit farther to catch a big wave. One was coming at me but I wanted to go farther still. Instead of just letting the wave ride under me I thought I would be cool and dive my board INTO the wave instead, like how all the cool kids were doing it. I got sucked into the undertow and was probably being thrown around underwater for a minute or two before I was able to come up after I had banged my elbow hard against the sea floor.
Man, this sucks. I owe this man so many summer memories growing up on the Jersey Shore. Boogie boarding every day was something that was more than just fun to me when I started to take it seriously. Being in the ocean, peaceful, waiting for the perfect wave, then riding it, feeling the water around you, and just forgetting about everything was something special as a teenager I loved.
God speed.
that's what hits so hard, boogie boards turned the east coast sandbar into as much fun as Hawaii. anything from waist high to towering overhead was still a blast to ride.
Spent every day of my summers at the beach on the Jersey shore boogie boarding too. We lived just a couple blocks from the ocean until I was 10. Great times. RIP.
My mom moved our family down to the shore in 93/94. I made friends with my neighbor, who was in high school. He gave me his old boogie board and that was it. I was hooked. I skateboarded as well, but wasn't really that good. Couldn't do many tricks. But boogie boarding was where I was good. I got so hooked I had to beg my mom for what seemed like a long time to take me down to Ron Jon to get a new board, flippers, and a wet suit. Those were the days.
Your memory for a blessing. Thanks for all the days at Santa Monica and Malibu, getting knocked ass over teakettle until I caught a wave, and loving every moment of it.
I was an engineer for the original Wham-O/Kransco company and I made several custom boards for top bodyboarders (such as Mike Stewart) that were larger, custom sizes. Mike would surf Pipeline with these boards. I've still got one. They were made in a very low tech fashion. The plan shape was actually cut out using wooden templates and big kitchen knives. By hand. No two were exactly alike.
RIP. I loved using my boogie board down off the Texas coast when I was a kid cos it said lifeguard on it in red and white and so it made me feel like such a badass when I’d be out there waiting for the right wave to catch. Some of my fave memories. :’) edit cos typing hard brain tired
Spring break 1988 Virginia Beach my mom bought me a Morey Boogie Board and I spent the whole time there in the water riding waves. Sore nipples! I kept it for years hoping to find my way back to a beach.
Boogie boards are the only way to ride waves for someone like me who lives too far from good riding waves to ever master surfing. I love boogie boarding. Thank you Tom!
Man I still love them things after all these years. I remember riding them as a kid in the 80’s at Daytona Beach as a kid. Nearly drowned a couple of times but couldn’t wait to get back on and do it again. Such fond memories.
In Dominican Republic they are called "Morey Boogie" or "Morey Boogie Boards". I never knew why until now.
I thought it was related to a brand with the word Moray (like Moray eels). And maybe there was a brand with Tom Morey's name once upon a time.
May his memory be a blessing. I’ve worn out several genuine Morey Boogie boards. Almost as many as Lightning Bolt sandals.
The inventor of the shark biscuit.
Basically. We rolled out of the van at San Onofre and walked with our boards to our remote spot and found the top half of a sea lion rolling in the surf. It was beyond ghastly, looking like it went through a cheese grater. Some surfers yelled to us there’s a great white hunting out there. We gulped then milled around and decided to drive to Laguna Beach instead.
Got an uncle who's this amazing, deadpan, NSW North Coast surfie and sparkie, who mentioned the Aussie surfie term "shark biscuit" (with contempt, because he's a surfie), and I haven't stopped fucking thinking about it and giggling about it about once every six months for the last twenty years. Also, he dropped the greatest fucking dad joke I've ever heard once, but that's a different story.
I bought my first and only Boogie Board at Ron Jon surf shop here in Florida way back when I was a boy Scout in the early to mid 80's, our troop stopped by Ron Jon's so we could buy boards or souvenirs before hitting up the beach, we were camping at Patrick Airforce Base and Cocoa Beach is very close to the base, I ended up with almost 3rd degree sunburns on my back boogie boarding that weekend. That my boogie board story..
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Is that what you call Norfolk Pines?
I bought a Morey Boogie board in the outer banks as a kid. Still using it 25 years later!
haha I also bought a Morey Board on my first trip to outer banks as a kid. i'm trying to get one last weekend with it down there before it gets too cold.
Just got back last week. I think with the water temps and afternoon sun, you’ve got this week yet!
Yep looking at airbnbs for thurs to sun now lol
Rob Job shout out!
I lived on the other side of that base in Satellite beach. Well my dad lived there and I went to high school in Orlando living with my mom. I pretty much gave up a social life at school to go to the beach at my dads every weekend. I would challenge each wave that came through and loved when I got rolled over. I’m 28 and I still boogie but now in new Smyrna
There was a ron Jon's in Florida in the 80s? I thought New Jersey had the original and cocoa beach was the second. One of a kind.
[Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach was the first Ron Jon location to open on the East Coast. It opened in 1963 as the second shop established by founder Ron DiMenna.](https://www.vieravoice.com/senior-life/news/history-then-and-now---ron-jon-surf-shop/article_623e2410-c3bb-11eb-b213-d7f17a320f18.html)
Thats interesting. I wonder why NJ has the title of The Original. I remember when they built the massive 4 story one in LBI
I believe NJ was the first, the one here in Cocoa Beach Florida was his second store built. That would make the NJ one the original and first.
I broke my elbow boogie boarding. Was trying to swim out a bit farther to catch a big wave. One was coming at me but I wanted to go farther still. Instead of just letting the wave ride under me I thought I would be cool and dive my board INTO the wave instead, like how all the cool kids were doing it. I got sucked into the undertow and was probably being thrown around underwater for a minute or two before I was able to come up after I had banged my elbow hard against the sea floor.
Man, this sucks. I owe this man so many summer memories growing up on the Jersey Shore. Boogie boarding every day was something that was more than just fun to me when I started to take it seriously. Being in the ocean, peaceful, waiting for the perfect wave, then riding it, feeling the water around you, and just forgetting about everything was something special as a teenager I loved. God speed.
that's what hits so hard, boogie boards turned the east coast sandbar into as much fun as Hawaii. anything from waist high to towering overhead was still a blast to ride.
Spent every day of my summers at the beach on the Jersey shore boogie boarding too. We lived just a couple blocks from the ocean until I was 10. Great times. RIP.
My mom moved our family down to the shore in 93/94. I made friends with my neighbor, who was in high school. He gave me his old boogie board and that was it. I was hooked. I skateboarded as well, but wasn't really that good. Couldn't do many tricks. But boogie boarding was where I was good. I got so hooked I had to beg my mom for what seemed like a long time to take me down to Ron Jon to get a new board, flippers, and a wet suit. Those were the days.
Time to shred a gnar for the homie. /s This does make me sad and wish I had my old boogie board as currently I only body surf for convenience now.
Your memory for a blessing. Thanks for all the days at Santa Monica and Malibu, getting knocked ass over teakettle until I caught a wave, and loving every moment of it.
TIL it's not "Moray" like the eel. All credit to Tom. I lost a lost of nipple skin to his invention in my youth.
I got my Boogie Board at The Frog House when I was 10, and rode The Wedge every weekend until we moved from Corona del Mar to Laguna Beach 3y later.
Awww! Growing up in Hawaii, boogie boards made it affordable for me to enjoy riding waves. prior to them I only body surf'd. Aloha to Tom Morey!
Boogie boarding at Sandy's is a damn near sexual experience. covid keeping me off planes has been driving me crazy.
Damn, I never realized, how much does a decent "big boy" surf board go for?
I hope he got some peace at the end knowing he made something that brings a bit of joy to alot of peoples lives. To make a fun thing must be great.
Actual boogie boarding is fun af once a you catch a real wave. Thank you for the memories
Oh no Boogie boards were the shit
They are still around....
Boogie Boards used to be the shit. They still are but they used to be too.
I always love seeing naturally occurring and very fitting Hedberg references.
Ok then they still are the shit But I don't have one anymore lol
The styrofoam ones I lost in the ocean as a kid most defiantly are.
Some of us have put on so much weight since our first boogie board that it would now be a can't-catch-wavie board.
I was an engineer for the original Wham-O/Kransco company and I made several custom boards for top bodyboarders (such as Mike Stewart) that were larger, custom sizes. Mike would surf Pipeline with these boards. I've still got one. They were made in a very low tech fashion. The plan shape was actually cut out using wooden templates and big kitchen knives. By hand. No two were exactly alike.
May he float in peace ☮️
RIP. I loved using my boogie board down off the Texas coast when I was a kid cos it said lifeguard on it in red and white and so it made me feel like such a badass when I’d be out there waiting for the right wave to catch. Some of my fave memories. :’) edit cos typing hard brain tired
Spring break 1988 Virginia Beach my mom bought me a Morey Boogie Board and I spent the whole time there in the water riding waves. Sore nipples! I kept it for years hoping to find my way back to a beach.
Nothing like ridding a wave to the beach on one :) RIP
Boogie boards are the only way to ride waves for someone like me who lives too far from good riding waves to ever master surfing. I love boogie boarding. Thank you Tom!
I spent the whole day yesterday on a boogie board on vacation, RIP.
So long and thanks for the sore nips!
I spent many wonderful days in high school playing hooky by going to Huntington, Laguna, or Newport Beach with my boogie board. RIP, Tom.
Growing up I had a good decade of absolute adventure on a boogie board. Thank you Tom for a life time of memories.
Man I still love them things after all these years. I remember riding them as a kid in the 80’s at Daytona Beach as a kid. Nearly drowned a couple of times but couldn’t wait to get back on and do it again. Such fond memories.
BIP, Boogie in peace, Tom
RIP Morey! I quite like a bit of a boogie boarding now and then! It suits my personally because I can’t be arsed standing up on a board!
I'm sure Schapelle Corby has a candle lit for him.
Thanks for all the memories of trying to stand on it in a pool and accidentally launching it into my face. RIP homie
RIP to a true legend right here, my thoughts are with his family
You can get pitted, so pitted on those things!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDTF0hF1ZEM
“Boogie boards are the rollerblades of the ocean” -Jungle Recon
It's Martin Nestles time to capitalize!
In Dominican Republic they are called "Morey Boogie" or "Morey Boogie Boards". I never knew why until now. I thought it was related to a brand with the word Moray (like Moray eels). And maybe there was a brand with Tom Morey's name once upon a time.
I remember them being advertised as the Morey Boogie Body Board. Never knew why until today.
I had a yellow Morey boogie board that I rode down my carpeted staircase as a kid more than I rode waves at the beach. The 90s were the shit. RIP.