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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, the inventor of the Boogie Board, has died due to complications from a stroke. Morey was known as a surfing legend, who came up with the idea to create a foam board to prevent severe ...

He created a lightweight, flexible board out of a piece of foam in his backyard in Hawaii in 1971. It introduced millions to the pleasures of riding waves on their bellies. By Richard Sandomir Tom ...