Velzy was a pioneering surfer/shaper, hailed as the first commercial board builder and the undisputed king of the fledging ‘surf industry’ in the 50’s. ‘He could out-drink, out-shoot, out-ride and out-finesse all comers’ claimed the Surfers Journal in 1994. With a penchant for cuban cigars, sports cars and flamboyant moustaches, ‘V-Land’ came into being when Velzy ‘discovered’ it shooting Slippery When Wet with Bruce Brown in 1958.
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