Kelly Slater has reportedly donated the board he surfed on at the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, according to a post on the Mountain and Wave.
The surfboard, made of white fiberglass and sporting a blue wave design covered with sponsor stickers throughout, is currently on view in the museum’s first-floor Artifact Walls. It has a rubber pad at the back of the board for traction and three removable fins along the bottom. . . “Over the past 20 years, his approach to surfing as a professional and dedicated philanthropist has changed how people surf and view the sport,” said Jane Rogers, curator, at the museum.
That means in a way both Al Merrick and Jake Burton are in that museum as well. It’s a Smithsonian trifecta.
[Link: The Mountain and Wave via OC Register]
pity parko one bells this year though??
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