'He said he'd shape boards until the day he died, and that's just what he did.'
On a recent Sunday morning at the weather-worn entrance of Kelly’s Cove nestled beneath the Cliff House, a crowd of nearly 100 people gathered around an assortment of custom-made surfboards, each bearing watercolorlike swirls, meticulous pinstriping and a bold, unmistakable “H.”surf spot since as early as the 1950s — before the days of wetsuits, leashes, lifeguards and even boards themselves.
All of them were there because of the late Bill Hickey, an artist and surfboard maker who worked for the first O’Neill surf shop on Wawona Street and went on to open his own business at 48th Avenue and Irving Street, crafting, shaping and glassing thousands of boards by hand from start to finish and changing the local surf scene forever.
Hickey died at his Encinitas home Feb. 27 after a year-and-a-half-long battle with cancer. He was 85 years old.Patricia Chang/Special to SFGATEPatricia Chang/Special to SFGATEPatricia Chang/Special to SFGATEPatricia Chang/Special to SFGATEScenes from the Bill Hickey memorial on Ocean Beach in San Francisco on April 24.
A hush fell over the gathering as Steven Krolik, a former bodysurfer at Kelly’s Cove, made his way to a spot on the sandy cement flanked by a few bouquets of roses and photographs of his longtime friend. Stenciled pieces of painted plywood by artist Pierre Benitomako lined the sea wall between Ocean Beach and the Great Highway, some of them reading Hickey’s trademark slogan: “Built to last.”“Waves come and go,” he said, finally. “But Bill Hickey will be here forever.
But it wasn’t until Hickey was a teenager fresh out of Riordan High School in 1954 that he would brave the swell at Kelly’s Cove, eventually learning how to bodysurf there with
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