Michael Ray Bowe, 60, a homeless man and former noted East Coast surfer was pulled lifeless from the Lake Worth Inlet, Florida themorning of September 9, 2009, according to a story in the Palm Beach Post.
“Mike Bowe was a very good hot dogger. He was considered one of the top five local surfers in the ’60s,” said Fred Salmon, head of the Palm Beach County Surfing History Project. . . The U.S. Coast Guard found 60-year-old Michael Ray Bowe near Peanut Island after local boaters called authorities. . . Growing up in the 1960s, Bowe surfed on a longboard around Riviera Beach, Salmon said. He competed and won surfing events up and down the East Coast. But Salmon said Bowe’s life took a turn after he got into a car accident on Interstate 95, and he had struggled with drugs and alcohol for the rest of his life after it.
Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
[Link: Palm Beach Post]
“BOWE”
ENDLESS GLASSY TUBES! CHEST OUT,TOES ON THE NOSE,
CARVING YOUR WAVE THRU ETERNITY.
IN THE LATE 60’S HE WAS A LEGEND ON A SURFBOARD
WE WERE FRIENDS,I WILL ONLY REMEMBER THESE
GOOD TIMES!
“WE WERE SO YOUNG & FEARLESS”
GOOD SPEED OLD FRIEND, MIKE FRANTZ,POSSUM
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