Buzzy Kerbox

Burton "Buzzy" Kerbox, born in 1956 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an American surfer who also worked as a photographer and model. His family moved to Kailua on the eastern side of Oahu in 1965, and he began surfing in Hawaii in 1966. He was ranked in the top ten in 1977, 1978 and 1980, won the 1978 World Cup at Sunset Beach and took the 1980 Surfabout in Sydney. He is best known as one of the surfers, with Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama and a handful of others, who developed tow-in surfing in the mid-1990s, and the first tow-in sessions used his 15-foot Zodiac motorboat. Later in life he became an advocate for standup paddle boarding.