Tom Morey, Boogie Board inventor who opened the waves to the masses, dead at 86

LOS ANGELES -- The stout waves off the Kona coastline on Hawaii's Big Island were still the domain of stand-up surfers as Tom Morey fiddled in his garage with a 9-foot plank of polyethylene foam, an electric carving knife and an iron he'd borrowed from a neighbor.

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