LYNNE
BOYER

In 1975 at age 18, newcomer Lynne Boyer won first place at the Hawaii State Amateur Surfing Championships. In 1976, she turned pro, winning the first professional event she competed in – the WISA Hang Ten Pro at Malibu, California. Lynne joined the first International Professional Surfers World Tour (IPS) in 1977. Her dynamic, rotational power style instantly differentiated her from the other female competitors. She was often compared to Hawaiian Larry Bertlemann, who had been credited with a radical new way of riding waves that featured a lower center of gravity and was influenced by skateboarding. Lynne soon became one of the two most dominant competitive female surfers in the World. Lynne and champion Margo Oberg, the titans of the women’s tour, battled for the title which in 1978 and 1979 went to Boyer, making her the first female pro surfer to beat Oberg in her prime. Lynne also won the prestigious 1979 Surfer Magazine Reader's Poll Award and was featured in multiple surfing films. Later in life, Boyer became a celebrated painter and visual artist. The legendary waterman/shaper Harold Iggy made Lynne’s high-performance boards. He decorated them with a brightly colored airbrush ribbon pattern featuring the revolutionary racing skis, The Kneissl “Star”. Lynne rode the original board to victory in the 1979 Cuervo Pro at Sunset Beach, Hawaii. This replica surfboard was hand-crafted by San Diego shaper Craig Hollingsworth.

This board is on loan from the collection of Candice Woodward.
Portrait photo © Lynne Boyer