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A Democratising Impulse
The idea arrived, as the best ones often do, at a cocktail party. It was January 1967, Pacific Palisades, California, when surfer Hoyle Schweitzer and sailor Jim Drake fell into conversation about combining their two favourite sports. Most men would have left the idea where they found it, somewhere between the second and third drink. Not Schweitzer.