Skip Frye

Skip Frye, born Harry Richard Frye on 7 September 1941 in San Diego, California, is an American surfer, surfboard designer and shaper, and environmental activist. He began surfing competitively in San Diego in the late 1950s, rode for Gordon and Smith, won national surfing titles and represented the United States in international competition in 1966. After a surfing trip to Australia in 1969 he refined the shapes he became best known for, including the Egg, the Fish and his longboards, which are prized for smooth flowing lines rather than high performance maneuvers, and he is recognized by his winged logo known as Frye Wings. He was inducted into the Surfboard Shapers Hall of Fame in 2006, the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame in 2011, the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2016 and the San Diego Surfing Hall of Fame in 2019. He has long worked with his wife Donna Frye for cleaner coastal water.