Surfboard shaped by Duke Kahanamoku on the beach at Corona Del Mar, California in 1928

1928

This redwood surfboard was shaped by Duke Kahanamoku on the beach at Corona Del Mar, California in 1928. The board was reshaped in 1961 by Joe Quigg, a revolutionary board maker from Santa Monica but it is unknown how Quigg came to own the board. Mike Marshall, the donor's husband acquired the board in 1970 after Quigg moved back to Hawaii and left the board. The flying "V" on this board was re-carved by artist Larry Miller in 1989. Originally Kahanamoku shaped this board for Jerry Vultee, an avid surfer and aerospace engineer who worked for Lockheed Martin in the 1930s. Vultee designed the Lockheed Sirus Tingmissartog flown by Charles Lindbergh and the Winnie Mae #2 of Oklahoma, both currently housed at the Air and Space Museum.