 Hap
opened Jacobs surfboards in
Hermosa Beach on Pacific Coast
Highway in 1959. Business was
good and then it was great and
then it was ridiculous.
"We were there at the
beginning during I guess what
they call the Golden Years of
Surfing between the 60s and
70s," Hap says. Future
shaping legends Lance Carson,
Robert August and Rick Irons
cut their teeth under
Hap’s guidance. At the
peak, Hap’s operation
was turning out 125 boards per
week. This volume enabled the
precise, detail-oriented Hap
to refine his templates,
culminating in his finely
tuned high-performance quiver
on offer today.
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