Peter Trombly Celebration and Paddle Out

If there were ever a good guy that lived his life in peace, without gossip, and without aspirations for money and fame, Peter Trombly may have been that guy. He learned to surf in the Aina Haina area, learned to make surfboards, and then to become an experienced glasser on the North Shore.
He and his dad were there at the inception of windsurfing in Hawaii, and he was there as it morphed from a flat water hobby into a highly skilled wave catching sport.
He lived for forty years near Sunset Point and made Sunset and Backyards his go-to surfing and windsurfing homes, except, of course, if Laniakea were breaking big.
He walked the North Shore bike path collecting friends, vacuum cleaners, and slippers and even a guitar which he gave to Dougie Diehl. Like many of us guitar players, he was a professional noodler never fully learning or playing a song all the way through, but the noodling seemed to be more than enough to please his audience.
His friends and family gathered at Sunset Beach on July 15, 2023 to celebrate his life and to paddle out and distribute his ashes in the ocean.
Thank you to Bill Brooks and Mike Leonard for the use of their music on this video. Thank you to Lucy Carter for taking the family still shots and doing the closing Aloha. Thank you to Mari and Chip Hartman for their amazing energy in putting on this celebration. Thank you to Terry Ahue and his friends for the tent, chairs, and participation. Thank you to the North Shore lifeguards for their services on the paddle out. And thank you to all of you nameless folks who helped make Peter's day so special.

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I first had the honor & privilege to meet Peter Trombly when I was lifeguarding Waimea Bay, N Shore O'ahu, back in the mid 1970's with Eddie Aikau, Clyde Aikau, Jack Lauer, Mark Dombroski & many other great guards that also guarded there off & on. Peter would come down in the summertime to flatwater windsurf, play volleyball & hang out with the gang. He taught Eddie, Jack & myself ( JQA ), how to windsurf & also sold us one of his old rigs ( dagger board kine ). I think the 3 of us each chipped in less then a $ 100 each for the complete turn key ready rig. I forget exactly, but it was a great deal that he gave us. We would keep it in the lifeguard storeroom & take turns taking it out everytime Da Bay was flat. I wonder what ever happen to that rig ? I assume that is what turned on Jack to start a windsurf business out of Surf N Sea in Haleiwa back in the late 1970's.
RIP Peter with plenty Aloha ! Sorry I missed your services.