Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Morey poses with the Swizzle, one of the surfboards he invented. (Los Angeles Times) The stout waves off the Kona coastline on ...

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 inventor of the Boogie Board and a renowned figure in the surfing world, died Thursday at age 86. Morey grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he started surfing and became one of the ...

For the last seven weeks the Morey Boogie Board Division of the Kransco manufacturing company has occupied a squarish tan building in one of Oceanside's new industrial parks, a mile or two east on the ...

The stout waves off the Kona coastline on Hawaii’s Big Island were still the domain of stand-up surfers as Tom Morey fiddled in his garage with a 9-foot plank of polyethylene foam, an electric carving ...

Tom Morey, the inventor of the Boogie Board and a renowned figure in the surfing world, died Thursday at age 86. Morey grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he started surfing and became one of the ...

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 ...

Tom Morey’s lightweight invention allowed millions of people the thrill of wave riding. Morey, creator of the Boogie Board and one of the most influential inventors in the sport of surfing, died on ...