CRIME Greg Noll on Da Cat Surfboards Copy Cats Fraud

Greg Noll describes cop action and how the Greg Noll/Miki Dora Da Cat models were infamously knocked off by a surfboard builder and how the perpetrator was caught in a crime sting.

[@jamesmccormack1786]

My first surboard was a pop out $85.....was saving up for a Hobie and a lady that worked in the office above the plumbing shop my dad managed said her husband had 2 new surfboards he wanted to sell for $35 a piece . Reluctantly we drove over Turnbull Canyon Rd. from Whittier to Hacienda Hieghts. The lady wasn't sure what kind they were and her husband didn't surf. We went into the garage and the the gentlman pulled back the tarp covering the the 2 boards and low and behold the board on top was a brand new Gregg Noll Mickey Dora " Da Cat Model " staring me in the face.....I had to compose myself. If the guy knew what he had it would have cost me more than $35.....I was fucking stoked.....my parents thought it was a fad and 50 years and 25 different surboards later....I'm still stoked.....Dora Lives !!

[@gordonquigg9389]

This is interesting because so many surfboard builders did exact tracings of of Joe Quigg boards from Woody Brown in ‘48, to Bob Simmons in late ‘49, to Velsy and Hobie in ‘52, to all the board builders in the 50’s, and then Bing and Greg Noll in the early ‘60’s. The first real board for Miki Dora, was a Joe Quigg, that was Joe’s personal, sold to Guard Chapin in the early 50’s, 51 or 52, who was Miki’s step dad at the time, for a christmas present. Which launched Miki’s career, and his surfing took off from there. Joe, my mom, and my new born sister, Katy, moved to Hawaii in’53, where Joe worked at the Moana hotel and built boards for all of the hot local Hawaiian guys, from hot dog boards for waikiki, to big wave guns, to the most radical new open class stratatovarous racing paddle boards, and min-guns for the guys at Ala moana, which were all copied. Then uppn moving back to mewport beach in ‘57, Joe did some boards for Miki that were the most plagiarized boards of the early sixties by all of the leading board manufacturers at the time, and which Greg Noll exactly plagiarized as his “Da Cat Model”. So, if all the board builders who rver plagiarized Joes boards were to be caught and convicted, they’d all have been just that. But Joe didn’t care. He just kept moving forward with newr stuff because that’s what he was all about, Inventing the future. He didnt have time for mass production. He was a genius that kept javing to get the newest stuff out there to push the envelope.

[@joegardner3083]

Gregg noll is a very mean father too his first family and he had a fantastic brother, but he might be a 10 for being a ledgends b UT he's a total zero for what he did too his oldest son, soon da bull will be surfing the n on endless summer, too bad his brother died way too early

[@signjoey]

Greg Noll is the John Wayne of surfing so everyone wants in...I'm surprised they weren't Chinese boards...LOL

[@joegardner3083]

Greg noll is so full of himself, n his f in stories, he's got be the biggest storytelle.r

[@trainsacomin2088]

Much ado about nothing...