The 1971 Golden Breed Expression Session. Photo: Jeff Divine

The shaping room at Surf Line Hawai’i where, for the first time, I shaped boards under my own label. Photo: Gerry Lopez Collection

Buzzy Trent taking the drop at Sunset Beach, a wave he considered a shorter and less challenging ride than his favorite, Point Surf Makaha. Photo: John Severson

Jock Sutherland, an early master of the Pipeline, was a great help to me when I was starting out there. Photo: Art Brewer

Buffalo and Teddy Bear headed out for another day at the office at Makaha Beach. Photo: Jeff Divine

R B, Reno, and I posed this shot at the Makiki Pumping Station as a tribute to our new shortboard shapes. Photo: David Darling

Another routine drop at the Pipeline that ended up as a poster for Surfer magazine. Photo: Jeff Divine

A slight stall at the bottom of a sweet Pipeline wave to let the tube set up ahead. Photo: Jeff Hornbaker

The tube at the Pipeline had enough room to stand straight up inside it. Photo: Jeff Hornbaker

A bottom turn at the Pipeline on the Coral Cruiser marks the beginning of some success at surfing this difficult and dangerous break. Photo: James Cassimus

The Coral Cruiser, an eight-foot pintail gun, made surfing the Pipeline, more or less, a cakewalk. Photo: Art Brewer