Joey Hamasaki

Surfer Joey Hamasaki was born in 1946 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hamasaki first started surfing at Waikiki at the age of ten. In 1963 Joey moved to Dana Point, California, where she lived for ten years. Hamasaki finished second in both the 1964 Makaha International and 1966 World Surfing Championship contests as well as rated second in both the 1966 and 1967 United States Surfing Association final ratings and the 1965, 1966, and 1967 Surfer Magazine Readers Poll Awards. Moreover, Joey won both the 1966 Malibu Invitational and the 1967 East Coast Surfing Championships. In addition, Hamasaki also glossed surfboards for such Southern California surfboard manufacturers as Hobie and Weber before eventually returning to her native Honolulu in 1973.