Tom Morey, an innovator whose love of surfing inspired the best-selling Boogie Board, died on Thursday in California Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering Human Interest. She has ...

Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was 86. “It was Morey who introduced ...

Re “Boogie boards” (July 7):While I well remember using Boogie boards and surfboards for riding the waves, there is nothing better than old-school body surfing.As a young boy, my father taught me body ...

What’s the best boogie board for 2021? Boogie boards, also known as bodyboards, are like smaller versions of surfboards designed to ride waves in a prone position. Although there’s plenty of skill ...

Tom Morey was looking for a way to seal a piece of foam to create a mini wave-riding board, an idea to use scraps of old surfboards that would allow him to ride waves on his belly, maneuvering across ...

Tom Morey, the inventor of the Boogie Board and a renowned figure in the surfing world, died Thursday at age 86. Morey grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he started surfing and became one of the ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board in Hawaii, allowing belly wave riding, has died at 86. Morey died on October 14 in Laguna Hills, Calif., from complications of a strike, his ...

He created a lightweight, flexible board out of a piece of foam in his backyard in Hawaii in 1971. It introduced millions to the pleasures of riding waves on their bellies. By Richard Sandomir Tom ...