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Weber hired his highly regarded shaper, Harold Iggy, and assembled a surfing team, which he sent to surfing events attired in distinctive red Weber trunks and jackets to promote the Weber brand. The success of his surfing team led Weber Surfboards at the time to sales second only to Hobie.
Dewey revolutionized surfing with the first “cut-a-way” fin (the infamous hatchet fin), the introduction of the first removable fin unit, and his implementation of the first “milling” machine; which was the forerunner of computer assisted design.
Feb 8, 2017 · Matt Warshaw's latest History Of Surfing chapter dropped a few days ago, and it's all about Malibu's "Little Man on Wheels," Dewey Weber. An expert hotdogger, and one of the '50s-generations' most talented surfers, Weber brought a showmanship dripping with ambition and self-critical intensity.
Jan 8, 1993 · Dewey Weber, whose intricate surfing style and board designs helped popularize the sport and made him one of surfing’s legends, died Wednesday of cardiac failure brought on by alcohol abuse.
May 23, 2021 · Dewey Weber was born David Earl Weber on August 18, 1938 in Denver, Colorado. He went on to become one of the greats in surfing in the 1950s and a great in the surfboard manufacturing world in the 1960s. His stardom, however, began at an early age.
Weber was born (1938) in Denver, Colorado, the son of a truck driver, moved with his family at age five to Manhattan Beach (just north of Hermosa), and began surfing four years later. He was already a minor celebrity...
May 14, 2014 · Dewey Weber, arguably the finest small-wave surfer to come out of the South Bay, epitomized the lifestyle and attitude of the Golden Era of Surfing in California—a time when longboards didn’t exist (they were simply surfboards).
