Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was 86. “It was Morey who introduced ...

Tom Morey, an innovator whose love of surfing inspired the best-selling Boogie Board, died on Thursday in California Tom Morey, who celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Boogie Board over the summer, ...

He sold one to a fellow beach bum for $10 and figured that, for a day’s work, at least it covered his costs. Within a year, Morey Boogie Boards were selling by the tens of thousands, opening waves ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tom Morey, the man who invented the modern bodyboard, has died. He was known to many as a surfer, engineer, inventor and musician. In July 1971, he came up with the ...

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Surfing legend Tom Morey, creator of the Boogie Board, has died. He was 86. The California Surf Museum in Oceanside said in a published tribute that Morey died last week at Saddleback Medical Center ...

LOS ANGELES — The stout waves off the Kona coastline were still the domain of stand-up surfers as Tom Morey fiddled in his garage with a 9-foot plank of polyethylene foam, an electric carving knife ...

Tom Morey would say he never set out to change the world, but his lightweight invention would ultimately allow millions of people the thrill of wave riding. Morey, inventor of the Boogie Board and one ...

Tom Morey, the inventor of the Boogie Board and a renowned figure in the surfing world, died Thursday at age 86. Morey grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he started surfing and became one of the ...