One of surfingвЂ™s most influential innovators, Jack OвЂ™Neill, 94, died Friday at his long-time home on Pleasure Point in Santa.

He started body surfing in Oregon in the late 1930s before moving to San Francisco, where he earned a bachelor. Saturday, JJack ONeill, surfer, ocean lover, boating enthusiast, wetsuit pioneer, balloonist, and founder of the iconic worldwide surf company ONeill, has passed away in Santa Cruz, California, of natural causes at the age of 94. Jack O'Neill was born in Denver, Colorado, on March 27, 1923. According to his family, the founder of O'Neill died of natural causes at his home in Santa Cruz, California. Jack O Neill made it all possible with his invention of the wet suit. A post shared by O'Neill (oneill) on at 1:48am PDT. Surf legend and wetsuit pioneer Jack O'Neill passed away at 94. By the end of the century, surfers were riding waves in some of the most remote coldwater corners of the world places like Scotland, Tasmania, and Canada in the dead of winter. In the middle of the twentieth century, surfing was overwhelmingly confined to warm-water latitudes and summer seasons. No one has done more to expand the world of surfing than Jack O Neill. In a profile of OвЂ™Neill published in 2013, on. OвЂ™Neill hung a shingle on a small building in lonely, fogbound Ocean Beach, San Francisco way back in 1952. OвЂ™Neill, who lived in Santa Cruz where the wetsuit division of the surf company still operates died Friday of natural causes. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller. The surf world mourns yet another iconic figure this week as Jack OвЂ™Neill, one of the first to sell surf-specific wetsuits, and founder of one of the worldвЂ™s first surf shops, has passed away in Santa Cruz. Dust jacket is also good with minor bumping to edges and small tear to bottom front corner. Word of JackвЂ™s craftsmanship in both shaping boards and designing wetsuits soon spread with. He passed away peacefully at his seaside home in Santa Cruz, California, with his family by his side, O'Neill's friends told. 255pp with many illustrations throughout. The OвЂ™Neill brand started life in 1952 when our founder, Jack OвЂ™Neill began designing and producing the worldвЂ™s first neoprene wetsuits out of the worldвЂ™s first surf shop - a humble garage off the Great Highway, San Francisco. Jack O'Neill, the pioneering US surfer and designer, has died aged 94. The manвЂ™s true legacy, at least as far as OвЂ™Neill himself was concerned, is in a catamaran called the OвЂ™Neill Sea Odyssey, which he helped design. There are only four OвЂ™Neill surf shops, all of them local and owned by the wetsuit company. In 1959, he relocated the Surf Shop 90 miles down the coast to Santa Cruz, where the sun was warmer and the waves were better. OвЂ™Neill Wetsuits, now a separate group, is still family-owned and run by JackвЂ™s eldest son, Pat. Hard cover in very tidy condition with no inscriptions or markings. OвЂ™Neill just wanted to support his growing family.

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