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Endless Summer co-star Mike Hynson was born in Crescent City, California in 1942.

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His father was career navy, so the family bounced between Hawaii and San Diego for the first dozen or so years of Michael’s life. By the mid-‘50s, the family had settled in Pacific Beach, a neighborhood of San Diego. There, Hynson started surfing and quickly became one of area’s hottest surfers.

In late 1961, he moved to Hawaii to surf the North Shore of Oahu, and was one of the first surfers to take on Pipeline.
By 1959, Michael had become a professional surfboard shaper, shaping for such notable brands as Hobie and Gordon and Smith.

While working for Gordon and Smith, he and his friend Herbie Fletcher pioneered the down rail concept, and Michael personally designed and created the HY-1 and HY-2 models.

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But perhaps his most famous design was the Hynson Redfin Model.
Never that enthralled by surf competitions, Michael still had some success as a contest surfer in the ‘60s. Often riding for the W