Hermosa Beach: Lives well lived, 2022
Jacobs shaped boards, surfers Dudley “Hap” Jacobs is acknowledged, along with fellow Hermosa Beach surfboard shapers Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, and Bing Copeland, as among the greatest shapers from surfing’s Golden Era, in the late ’50s and early ’60s. But Jacobs’ most important contribution to surfing wasn’t shaping surfboards boards, former Jacobs team rider Henry Ford recalled during a memorial paddleout for Jacobs at the Hermosa Beach pier in September. “His greatest contribution was shaping strong young men, and women,” Ford said. That sentiment was expressed in different ways by all of the more than 100 surfers at the paddlout, who spanned over six decades of surfing. “Gentleman,” was the word used most often to describe Jacobs. The paddleout was a tribute to both Jacobs’ character and his craftsmanship. The boards brought to the paddleout, dating back to a noserider used in the 1965 C Street Longboard Contest, rivaled the best surfboards made today. The esteem Jacobs’ boards continue to be held in was evident from the surfboard shapers who attended the paddleout. They included Jon Mangiagli, Pat Ryan, Jose Barahona, Tyler Hatzikian, Matt Calvani and Adam Davenport. Jacobs…
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