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• Bob McTavish

Bob McTavish was born in Australia, and took to the sea completely by the age of 18, exploring the endless miles of good surf along the coastlines of New South Wales and Queensland. McTavish's natural tool skills and curiosity led him into board design. In 1965, he hooked up with Nat Young and George Greenough on a trip to Noosa. This resulted in Young's extraordinary thin-railed, high-aspect-finned board dubbed "Magic Sam." Nat Young rode that board at the 1966 World Contest in an era-bending clash between longboards and shortboards. Young won, on a McTavish design. Today, McTavish’s stature as a shaper/innovator is unsurpassed—in fact, Australian Surfing Life dubbed him the “Most Influential Shaper of All Time.”

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