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Surf Splendor

581 - Bob McTavish: Part One

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode Bob McTavish shares stories from surfing in an era prior to foam cores and surf wax, charts the path from dropping out of school to surf, to being homeless with only $10 to his name, to stowing away on a ship to Hawaii for the North Shore winter, the jail time that resulted, and he reveals the only two surfboards he's ever purchased in his life. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:12.8

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0:22.4

but you might not be aware of their sleep aid, AGZ, which I've been enjoying to great effect.

0:29.7

Sleeping hard and waking up restored is kind of the best way that I could put it,

0:34.1

but it's a melatonin-free sleep aid, also just a powder that you mix with water.

0:39.2

It's made with magnesium, valerian root, lemon balm, saffron, aschwaganda, amino acids,

0:45.6

and other ingredients to give you a clean, deep sleep with no groginess in the morning.

0:51.4

I actually look forward to the ritual of drinking it each night, and then I reap

0:55.4

the benefits each morning and every day. So you can click to AGZ when you visit drinkag1.com

1:02.6

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1:09.4

not to try to get optimal sleep at drinkag1.com

1:14.7

slash surf.

1:15.8

Enjoy. Imagine surfing in a time before foam was available to manufacture surfboards using candle wax because surf wax wasn't invented yet. Of course, there's no

1:46.6

wetsuits, no cords or leashes. These are details from the origin story of today's guest, who has gone on

1:54.5

from that to become one of the most well-known, important, and influential surfboard builders of

2:00.4

all time. There is no way for me to

2:03.9

give you a comprehensive overview of his career. And any summary here would just fall short.

2:09.9

So I'm going to let him do that himself in today's chat. But there are actually a couple of

2:13.9

highlights that we don't even get around to discussing here that are definitely

2:17.8

worth noting. The first is that he's widely accepted as the inventor of the V-bottom. He's a key

2:24.3

figure in the shortboard revolution, but more to the point, he formed the core of what he

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