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Nov 11, 2020 · HERBIE: What’s cool is what Hobie wrote in his book before he died about your dad teaching him how to make surfboards. That’s how far back the family goes. It’s interesting.
Herbie Fletcher, the mastermind behind Astrodeck, has never left San Clemente. He calls it home. And the story of Astrodeck starts here, in the heart of California's surfing culture.
May 4, 2017 · There’s an Instagram user who found an old Herbie board in Baja at a surf shop near K38. He has some clear pictures of the board, and even some footage of him surfing it! It looks like a rad 70s single fin.
The Herbie Fletcher surfboard measures in at a buoyant 6’4″ x 20 1/2″ x 3″. If you look at the photos immediately above, you’ll notice there’s a single wing that ends in a round tail. Overall, the outline is pretty classic for the era in which the board was made.
It was around that time Herb met Dibi Hoffman, the sister of Joyce Hoffman, who was then considered the best woman surfer in the world and daughter of Walter Hoffman, a legendary surf...
Now, Fletcher: A Lifetime in Surf, written by Dibi Fletcher—wife of Herbie and matriarch of what Esquire has called “surfing’s first family”—simultaneously traces the evolution of the Fletcher family’s life and offers an oral history of surfing’s counterculture from the 1950s to today.
In the following years, Hoffman coached his step-daughter Joyce to becoming the first women to ever surf Pipeline, and subsequently taking out two surfing world championships. His other step-daughter Dibi was a little more rebellious…
