These surfboards are primarly wall hangers and sell from $10,000 to $50,000. He has been growing and harvesting Balsa wood on Kauai for the past fifteen years and makes beautiful Guns and longboards using a wide varity of exotic hard and soft woods. Hamilton remains on Kauai, near Hanalei, with his wife Rhonda and Bill are divorced too. The success was fleeting as Milius sued for patent rights, leaving Hamilton back where he started. Business boomed with the late '80s surfwear explosion as Bear expanded its line, replacing fishing as his main source of income. Afterward, Hamilton began shaping under the Bear label depicted in the movie. In 1976, Hamilton was chosen to do the surfing for Jan-Michael Vincent's character, Matt Johnson, in John Milius' Big Wednesday, as well as the scene in which lifeguards abandon their small boat in the pit of a gigantic oncoming wave. He would continue shaping, finding work with Country Surfboards, Chuck Dent and Lightning Bolt. He had begun shaping under the tutelage of Surfboards Hawaii's John Price in 1967, but turned to commercial fishing on Kauai for more income. The next year, the clan relocated to the lush isolation of Kauai, an area Hamilton had longed for since experiencing it in his days with MacGillivray and Freeman. Fortunately, Billy and Joann were also attracted, and they soon married. Joann Zyirek's toddler son, Laird, had chosen Hamilton to be his father on the beach at Ehukai in 1967. But, family took priority and he soon left the scene behind. He placed second at both the Smirnoff and Duke, in 1970. The young filmmaking duo of MacGillivray/ Freeman chose him to co-star with Mark Martinson in two monumental films, Free and Easy and Sunshine Sea. In 1966, he returned to Hawaii and was acknowledged as one of the most popular surfers around, placing sixth in the Surfer Poll. He joined them for the annual Makaha Championships the following year. Winning the Junior Division of the Brooks Street Classic in 1963 earned Hamilton membership into the prestigious Windansea Surf Club. In 1959, Hamilton was riding a Hobie double-ender, anywhere from Rincon to Baja. Bill Hamilton (August 27, 1948- ) was born in Long Beach, California, where he and his half-brother, Gordon, surfed South Laguna Beach.
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