Endnotes for parts 1 and 2
1. All the quoted passages by Frederick Wardy in this essay are from many in-person conversations with this author in 2022 and 2023.
2. The source of this photograph of Wardy Surfboards is unknown.
3. In this photograph (Fig. 5), Wardy and the crew are arranged as follows left to right in the front row: Bob Spencer, Ron Sizemore, Wardy; left to right in the back row: Stuart Burgess, Bob Machado, Larry Bailey, and John Thurston.
4. “The Emblem and the Craftsmen,” Surfer 3, no. 2 (May–June 1962): 12. This photograph was incorrectly attributed to John Severson.
5. SI Surfing Illustrated 1, no. 1 (Winter 1963): inside back cover.
6. Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing by Bolton T. Colburn and others: Ben Finney, Tyler Stallings, C. R. Stecyk, Deanne Stillman, Tom Wolfe (Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, and Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2002), in conjunction with an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in July to Oct. 2002. The exhibition traveled to The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, and the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
7. Ron Sizemore, conversation with author, Aug. 2022.
8. “The Emblem and the Craftsmen,” 12.
9. “On Quality Boards….,” Surfer 3, no. 1 (Spring 1962): 15.
10. Richard W. Graham, “A Look at the Boards,” “WARDY,” Surfing Yearbook (Petersen’s, 1963): 74.
11. “A Few Words on Surfboards . . .,” Surfer 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1963/Jan. 1964): 12.
12. “Wardy Beachbreak Board for Small Waves,” Surfer 7, no. 3 (July 1966): 82.
“Wardy Beachbreak Board for Small Waves,” Surfer 7, no. 4 (Sept. 1966): 76.
13. This quotation from an anonymous collector is from a conversation with the author during a visit to the collector’s home, July 2017.
14. Jean-Pierre van Swae (The Fly), conversation with Wardy, Ron Sizemore, and Erwin Spitz, Laguna Beach, CA, April 26, 2023.
15. “Wardy Surfboards,” Surfer 6, no. 5 (Nov. 1965): 20.
16. “On Quality Boards….,” 15.
17. Graham, “A Look at the Boards,” “WARDY,” 74.
18. “On Quality Boards….,” 15.
19. “Wardy Surfboards,” Surfer 5, no. 3 (July 1964): 15.
20. Randy Rarick, email to author and Lance Conragan, June 18, 2022.
21. Dick Graham, “All About Surfboards,” Petersen’s Surfing Yearbook No. 2 (1965): 117.
22. Randy Rarick, conversation with Frederick Wardy, Long Beach, CA, Feb. 2, 2022.
23. Rarick, email to author and to Lance Conragan, June 18, 2022.
24. Greg Noll, conversation with Lance Conragan, 2007, posted online by Conragan in 2012 in a blog.
25. Gerry Lopez, Our Surfboards Then & Yet Becoming, online, April 9, 2014.
26. Jim Cocores, email to author, June 17, 2022.
27. Lance Conragan, email to author, June 20, 2022.
28. Graham, “All About Surfboards,” 117.
29. Lisa Krasprzycki was born in Laguna Beach and went to Maui in her childhood. She attended the school of Visual Arts in New York and the Otis College of Art in Los Angeles. She has resided in Hawaii for many years.
30. John Grannis, son of LeRoy Grannis, graciously provided this photograph of Wardy in his shop.
31. “Personalities,” Surfer 5, no. 1 (Feb–March 1964): 64.
32. “The Great Assemblage of Power,” Surfer 6, no. 3 (July 1965): 11.
33. Graham, “A Look at the Boards,” “WARDY,” 74.
34. “Wardy Surfboards,” Surfer 3, no. 5 (Dec. 1962–Jan. 1963): 6.
35. “we’re small in a big way,” Surfer 5, no. 5 (Nov. 1964): 8.
36. Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, 2002.
37. Christakes used Coastal Blue in San Juan Capistrano for the printing of Fig. 87 and other numbers of the run.
38. “A Few Words on Surfboards . . .,” 12.
39. Corky Carroll, “CORKY BLOG,” Dec. 29, 2008. Between 1966 and 1970, Carroll won the United States Surfing Championship and the International Surfing Championship three times.
40. Graham, “A Look at the Boards,” “WARDY,” Surfing Yearbook, 74.
41. Cocores, email to author, June 11, 2022.
42. Lopez, Our Surfboards Then & Yet Becoming.
43. Gerry Lopez, email via Lance Conragan, Feb. 20, 2022.
44. Rarick, email to author and Conragan, June 18, 2022.
45. Lance Conragan, a longboard blog as “Surfnfish,” 2017.
46. Lance Conragan, email to author, Aug. 23, 2017.
47. Central’s Surfin’ Catalog, (Jamaica, New York: Central Skin Divers, 1966), front cover and inside of front cover.
48. Rick Griffin (1944–1991); John Severson (1933–2017).
49. SoCal Surfing News 1, no. 2 (Feb. 1963): 9.
50. Surfer 4, no. 5 (Oct.–Nov. 1963): inside back cover.
51. Carl Abejon, conversation with author, May 4, 2022.
52. “Interviews with the Greats,” “FREDERICK WARDY,” Surfing Yearbook (Petersen Publishing, 1963): 57.
53. “Personalities,” Surfer 5, no. 1 (Feb.–March 1964): 64.
54. Wardy business card, Surfer 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1960): 22.
55. “WARDY SURFBOARDS,” Reef 1, no. 1 (Aug. 1960): 21.
56. “Discriminating People Use Wardy Surfboards,” Surfer 2, no. 1 (Fall 1961): inside front cover.
57. “On Quality Boards….,” 15.
58. “Confidence,” SI Surfing Illustrated 1, no. 2 (Spring 1963): inside back cover; “Confidence,” Surfer 4, no. 4 (Aug.–Sept. 1963): 7.
59. SI Surfing Illustrated 1, no. 4 (Fall 1963): inside back cover.
60. “A Few Words on Surfboards . . .,” 12.
61. Surfer (Feb.–March 1964): 46.
62. “Don’t let the bull throw you!,” Surfer 5, no. 2 (April–May 1964): 24.
63. “Wardy Surfboards,” Surfer 5, no. 3 (July 1964): 15.
64. Surfer 5, no. 4 (Sept. 1964): 57.
65. SI Surfing Illustrated 2, no. 1 (Winter 1964): inside back cover.
66. “Santa’s on The Stick,” Surfer 5, no. 6 (Dec. 1964/Jan. 1965): 13.
67. “Wardy Surfboards,” Surfer 6, no. 2 (May 1965), 80.
68. “The Great Assemblage of Power,” 11.
69. “Wardy Beachbreak Board for Small Waves,” Surfer 7: 82; “Wardy Beachbreak Board for Small Waves,” Surfer 7, no. 4 (Sept. 1966): 76.
70. “Surf Bill,” Surfer, (July 1964), 3. Others pictured in the same column were Morgan (no other name given), Bo Boeck, Lance Carson, and Bruce Bonney.
71. Frederick Wardy, “The Lure of the Sea,” Surfer (July 1964): 38–41.
72. Fred Wardy, “Surfing Is,” Surfer 6, no. 1 (March 1965): 35–37.
73. Wardy, “Surfing Is,” 36.
74. John Severson, Great Surfing (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967), 12–15.
75. The poster “Surfing Is” does not carry a date of publication.
76. Sam George, ed., The Perfect Day: 40 Years of Surfer Magazine (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003, paperback), 14–15.
77. Grant Ellis, Surfer Magazine 1960–2020 (New York: Rizzoli International), 37–39.
78. Jean-Pierre van Swae, “Catch a wave and you’re . . .,” Laguna News-Post (Nov. 26, 1987), 21.
79. Lance Conragan, email to author, Aug. 23, 2017.
80. Jean-Pierre van Swae (The Fly), conversation with author, April 26, 2023.
81. Jonathan Blair (1941–2017) became a well-known photographer who worked for the National Geographic Society for many years. One of his specialties was deep ocean photography.
82. Mindy Pennybacker, “Views from Kaimuki,” The Surfer’s Journal (Aug./Sept. 2021).
83. Sheri Crummer, conversation with author, July 31 2023. Matt Warshaw, email to author, Aug. 5, 2020.
Pennybacker writes in her article that “Phil Edwards designed a Joey Hamasaki signature longboard for Wardy.” Online, in The History of Women’s Surfing entry on Hamasaki by Sheri Crummer, there are the lines (not a quotation) reading: "Hamasaki rode for Hobie, Jacobs, Weber and Wardy Surfboards. Phil Edwards designed her signature model for Wardy.” On April 26, 2023, Wardy and his former crew members Ron Sizemore and Jean-Pierre van Swae, The Fly, maintained without question that Edwards did not design the board for Wardy that Hamasaki endorsed but that indeed Wardy did. In an email to this author on July 15, 2023, Pennybacker responded to an inquiry with: "I do recall Joey saying Phil designed her board but it was never manufactured.” In an email to this author on July 25, 2023, Warshaw wrote: "I've looked into this and cannot confirm (or deny) that Phil designed the Joey Hamasaki Model board. Phil was so involved with Hobie during that period that I kind of doubt it, though. Shapers as a rule stayed with the company they were involved with. Hobie had his guys, Wardy has his, etc.”
84. Ron Sizemore, email to author, July 9, 2023.
85. Ron Sizemore, conversation with Wardy, The Fly, and Erwin Spitz, notations taken by author, April 26, 2023.
86. Chuck Bassett, Doheny Crazed: Barefoot Misadventures in the Golden Age of Surfing (self-pub., chuckbassett@icloud.com, 2023).
87. Chuck Bassett, email to author, May 3, 2023, tells more of the story. Jeff’s balsa Wardy board disappeared from his family home after he and his sister, Susan, both teenagers, died in a car accident in 1965.
88. Chuck Bassett, email to author, May 16, 2023.
89. Chuck Bassett, Doheny Crazed, 114–118.
90. Paul Rappaport, text to author, July 12, 2023. “My dad’s business was in Montebello (Los Angeles). When my friends and I took up surfing, he’d drive us to Seal Beach where by the jetty there was a spot called “the Bathtub” because of a steam plant that was in front and warmed up the water. He also took us to Huntington Beach—Balsa Chica area. When we got our licenses, we ventured further south. My favorite breaks were Laguna Beach (Thalia Street), Doheny Beach, San Clemente T Street, Swami’s, and Pipe (about 50 yards or more south). We surfed those in the summer. During the winter, we bypassed crowded Malibu and headed straight for the Ventura County line where big green long, glassy (because of all the kelp beds that were there) walls constantly rolled through.”
91. Paul Rappaport, email to author, June 14, 2023.
92. Larry Howlett, email to author, July 12, 2022.
93. Larry Howlett, email to the author, June 27, 2022.
94. Carl Abejon, email to and conversation with author, June 10, 2023.
95. Abejon, email to and conversation with author, June 10, 2023.
96. Mike Armstrong, conversation with author, July 11, 2023.
97. Bill Longenecker, conversation with author, Sept. 22, 2022.
98. Rev. David Tamaoka, email to author, Oct. 2, 2021.
99. Rev. David Tamaoka, email to author, Oct. 26, 2021.
100. Randy Rarick, email to author, July 4, 2023.
101. Ken Hall, email to author, May 17, 2023.
102. Dr. Barton Wachs, email to author, May 25, 2023.
103. Conragan, email to and conversation with author, July 7, 2022.
104. There is another Wardy board in the rafters at the Hobie Surf Shop in Laguna Beach, as of the spring of 2023.
105. “Interviews with the Greats,” 57.
106. Conragan, email to author, June 20, 2022.