Bill Barnfield: Setting the Record Straight
against hard core bikers and old MX racers. So it is pretty unique that a surfer can give them a run for the money.
If my currently broken leg (femur) heals up ok, I will probably go after the National and World titles again this summer......though my heart is not as committed as I was in past years. Just a side note......I attended the Worlds with my old friend from Seaside, Kent Wienker. We never really stayed in touch much, but he happened to get into cycling when he stopped drinking and cleaned up his life. We bumped into each other 30 years later, at a Nationals Race at Crystal Mtn. Washington. So we made plans and attended the World Championships in Quebec, together. That was really a blast from the past. It is truly a small world out there!
YACHTING
As the Skipper on my Yacht "Hallelujah" I won the "Around Oahu" race and am considered among the top yachtsmen in Hawaii. I have sailed across the Pacific and with my Friend Dave Collignon, in about '75 designed and built a Yacht that we raced and is still active in the yachting scene here in Hawaii.
WINDSURFING
I pioneered the early development of early wave riding, sailboard designs. Making them in the style and function of surfboards. I received a lot of flak for this as many thought sailboards should look like "sailboards". I perciveried but by the time others were doing similar things few remembered where they first saw it. I was also the first to make the slotted fin on my boards, which later, my employee Mike Rogers, went on to make for people. Even he didn't get credit for it........My original creation of it never even got on the map. Oh well!
BIG SCREEN
I was the inspiration for Chandler in the movie North Shore. I was hired as a technical advisor to Gregory Harrison to shape his character into the North Shore Guru Shaper dude that was seen on screen. I charged the producers a lot for this and since many gave themselves up cheap, to be involved........ they were quite offended by my high costs, so I wasn't included in the credits. Gregory and I were friends before this, and still are to this day.
BUSINESS
Built the first surfboard factory on the North Shore that was perfectly legal and to code. I have never "socially" recovered
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