Outrigger Canoe Club Surfing 1964-1984
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Duke Kahanamoku
1964
1964 Fred Hemmings Jr.
Outrigger Canoe Club's Fred Hemmings Jr. shows off the International Surfing Championship trophy he won in December 1964 in Makaha, Hawaii, in the Senior's Men's Division to his younger brother, Aka Hemmings.
1964 Fred Hemmings Jr. Canoe Surfing
Outrigger Canoe Club's Fred Hemmings Jr. is shown canoe surfing at Old Man's Bowl in 1964. Photo by Cline Mann.
1965 Cline Mann and Fred Hemmings Jr.
Outrigger Canoe Club President Cline Mann wished Fred Hemmings Jr. well as he left for Peru to compete in the world surfing championships.
1965 Duke's Surf Team
Duke Kahanamoku's Surf Team: Paul Strauch Jr., Joey Cabell, Fred Hemmings Jr. and Butch Van Artsdalen.
1965 Duke's Surf Team at Malibu
Outrigger Canoe Club's Paul Strauch Jr., Fred Hemmings Jr. and Butch Van Artsdalen get ready to go surfing with Duke Kahanamoku at Malibu, California. They are shown leaving the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
1965 Duke's Surf Team
Outrigger Canoe Club's Fred Hemmings Jr., Butch Van Artsdalen and Paul Strauch Jr., pose with Duke Kahanamoku as they enter his limo for a ride to Malibu beach with their surfboards on the roof. The photo was taken in front of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
1966 Fred Hemmings Jr.
Outrigger Canoe Club's Fred Hemmings Jr. in a classic bottom turn at Sunset Beach, Hawaii, riding his Blue Max board.
1967 Duke Kahanamoku and Fred Hemmings Jr.
Duke Kahanamoku presents an award to Fred Hemmings Jr. for competing in the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Championship. A total of 24 surfers competed and received awards at the awards banquet. The award had an Oscar-like body posed in front of a surfboard.
1968 Fred Hemmings Jr.
Outrigger Canoe Club's Fred Hemmings Jr. took first place in the World Surfing Championships in Rincon, Puerto Rico in November 1968. This photo was taken during the semi-finals in Gomes. The finals were held at Marias Beach.
1968 Duke Surfing Classic
Mike Doyle, left, won the 1968 Duke Kahananmoku Invitational Surfing Championship. Other participants were Outrigger's Ricky Grigg, Fred Hemmings Jr. and Felipe Pomar.
1968 Fred Hemmings Jr.
Outrigger Canoe Club's first world champion surfer Fred Hemmings Jr.
1969 Fred Hemmings Jr.
Outrigger Canoe Club's World Champion surfer Fred Hemmings Jr. rides the first man-made wave at Big Surf in Tempe, AZ. Bristol Meyer hired Hemmings as a consultant and test pilot for the man-made wave machine.
1969 Hawaii Governor John A. Burns and Fred Hemmings Jr.
During a presentation ceremony held at the Hawaii State Capitol in 1969, Outrigger Canoe Club's Fred Hemmings Jr. presented Hawaii's Governor John A. Burns with the silver World Surfing Championship Trophy he won in 1968 at Rincon, Puerto Rico.
1969 Fred Hemmings Jr.
World surfing champion Fred Hemmings Jr. poses for a photo with a guest at the Outrigger Canoe Club.
Makaha Intl Surfing Championship
1964
Fred Hemmings Jr.
Waimea Bay 1965
Fred Hemmings Jr. & Eddie Aikau
Waimea Bay 1966
Fred Hemmings
Pupukea Beach 1963
Fred Hemmings
Fred Hemmings Jr.
Fred Hemmings
Fred Hemmings
Fred Hemmings Jr.
Fred Hemmings Jr.
Fred Hemmings
Fred Hemmings Jr.
Fred Hemmings
Surfing at Makaha 1969
