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Club organizer and surf society raconteur from La Jolla, California; founder of the Windansea Surf Club in 1963. Hasley was born (1934) in Oklahoma, moved with his family in 1941 to Seal Beach, California, and began surfing at age 10. He moved to La Jolla in 1958, one year after receiving a master's in education from Long Beach State College. He briefly worked as a basketball coach at Santa Ana High School.

In 1963, Hasley picked up the long-moribund name of Windansea Surf and Ski Club in order to enter a team in the Malibu Invitational; he then put together an all-star surf squad—including Joey Cabell, LJ Richards, Skip Frye, Mike Hynson, Rusty Miller, and Butch Van Artsdalen—rented a bus, and hired a band to play while they drove up the coast. The Windansea Surf Club's debut turned into a raucous beer-and prank-filled weekend odyssey. They also won the contest, placing five surfers in the six-man final. Under Hasley's direction, Windansea Surf Club was a force in California surfing for the next five years. "Chuck was a Pied Piper kind of guy,” Windansea club member Carl Ekstrom recalled later. “He was fun to be around, and people were attracted to him.”

In 1964, Hasley and Hynson opened Windansea Sport, a La Jolla surf shop. Hasley was convicted of wholesale marijuana drug dealing in 1970 and served four years on a 15-year sentence. In 1981 he opened Windansea Silkscreen, a T-shirt business.

Hasley, four-times married, died in a single-car accident in 2004, at age 69.

Hasley, Chuck

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