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Big gun shaper: South Bay’s Pat Rawson found success on the North Shore

Summary by Easy Reader News
by Kevin Cody Surfboard shaper Pat Rawson is the least locally known, and best globally known of the 2026 Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame inductees. That’s because the year after graduating from Westchester High, in 1972, against his parents’ wishes, he moved to Hawaii. Over the next decade Rawson emerged as the most prominent shaper of big wave “guns” in the world, with the possible exception of his mentor of five decades, Dick Brewer.  “At o…
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Easy Reader News broke the news on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
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