THE QUOTABLE HOT CURL: DOWNING, FROISETH, KEKAI, KELLY, QUIGG, TALK ABOUT THE DEPRESSION ERA'S HOTTEST BOARD

The hot curl was the biggest surfboard design advancement of the 1930s. The quotes here, from surfers most closely associated with the design, originally appeared in "Hot Curl," by Craig Stecyk, which was published in the 1994 summer issue of Surfer's Journal. * * * JOHN KELLY Fran Heath and I were surfing at Brown’s surf on a glassy day [in 1937]. We couldn’t turn our redwood planks fast enough...