Tom Morey, an innovator whose love of surfing inspired the best-selling Boogie Board, died on Thursday in California Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering Human Interest. She has ...

Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was 86. “It was Morey who introduced ...

SOLANA BEACHSOLANA BEACH — In the early 1970s, the Boogie Board was born. So was Charlotte Gumbrell’s love for riding the waves on the popular foam body boards. Fifty years later, Gumbrell is still at ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board in Hawaii, allowing belly wave riding, has died at 86. Morey died on October 14 in Laguna Hills, Calif., from complications of a strike, his ...

(Reuters) - Californian grannies and retired mothers are living it up on boogie boards, riding the waves like kids away from the sunset. For these besties, there was no better way to celebrate ...

Re “Boogie boards” (July 7):While I well remember using Boogie boards and surfboards for riding the waves, there is nothing better than old-school body surfing.As a young boy, my father taught me body ...

Tom Morey was looking for a way to seal a piece of foam to create a mini wave-riding board, an idea to use scraps of old surfboards that would allow him to ride waves on his belly, maneuvering across ...

Tom Morey would say he never set out to change the world, but his lightweight invention would ultimately allow millions of people the thrill of wave riding. Morey, inventor of the Boogie Board and one ...