Skip Frye

Frye attended Mission Bay High School and began his professional surfing career in 1958.

After hitting a rough financial patch in the 70s, he started signing his wings in pencil because he could't afford laminates.

This is referred to as his "ghetto days", when he shaped surfboards behind Select Surf Shop in Pacific Beach.

Iconic images of him surfing with his dog, silhouetted against a setting sun, and paddling alone into "The Ranch" have appeared in books and magazines and have been printed on clothing and surfboards.

Frye is a 2006 inductee into the Surfboard Shapers Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in the surf pioneer category.