{"id":23474,"date":"2016-11-12T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T00:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2016-11-12T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T00:03:34","slug":"surfboard-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/surfboard-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfboard Builders Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/surfshap.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 the &#8220;makers&#8221; of the surf industry, the surfboard shapers and builders, were honored in a Hall of Fame ceremony at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/huntington-beach-international-surfing-museum.html\">International Surf Museum in Huntington Beach<\/a>. Showing up for the event was (left photo) Dana Rohrabacher, US Representative for California&#8217;s 48th\u00a0District. Also in attendance was actor\/ producer\/ director Gregory Harrison who played Chandler, a surfboard maker in the movie North Shore. The mayor of Huntington Beach, Jim Katapodis, said he doesn&#8217;t surf but understands it is like this: &#8220;You build a great race car and you put a great driver in there, then you win. You build a great surfboard and you put a great surfer on it, and you win. So, if you don&#8217;t have great surfboards, you can&#8217;t win!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame (isbhof.com) Inductees 2016: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob McTavish<\/li>\n<li>Mike Davis<\/li>\n<li>Greg Loehr<\/li>\n<li>Wayne Rich<\/li>\n<li>Randy Wong<\/li>\n<li>Robert Milner<\/li>\n<li>Gene Belshe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 the &#8220;makers&#8221; of the surf industry, the surfboard shapers and builders, were honored in a Hall of Fame ceremony at the International Surf Museum in Huntington Beach. Showing up for the event was (left photo) Dana Rohrabacher, US Representative for California&#8217;s 48th\u00a0District. Also in attendance was actor\/ producer\/ director Gregory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}