Special thanks to Nate K for the link to a nice historical piece on the Greenough family of Montecito, California.
The article is here...
Nate spotted the link on My Paipos Forum...
Also, I came across this page a while back. It's an article about the yacht owned by the Greenough's during George's childhood, the Marmetta. "Marmetta" is the name of the surf spot out at the Santa Barbara Channel Islands, which is often (wrongly) called "Mar Meadow." Obviously, the spot got it's name because George spent so much time anchored there in that vessel.
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Great article! I never knew how to spell Marmetta. I ran around those same Montecito neighborhoods in my youth, although I'm more than a decade younger than GG. I can attest that Camp Lorr, under the loving stewardship of the Sheltons, is just as funky and charming today as it ever was.
That is a great article - thanks for sharing with the surf mat community! Long live SB!
I ran into George back in the mid 90's. He was surfing a mat at Hobson's.
I had just bought a new boat to surf the islands & asked him if he wanted to join a friend & me on a trip we had planned that weekend. He was headed back to Australia so couldn't go, but asked me where we planned to surf. I told him "Moore Meadow". He laughed and said it was Marmetta. He said that he had named it after his parents' sailboat. I was talking with a friend this weekend at the Surf Film Festival. He had been invited to join the Santa Barbara County Surf Club when he was a young teen. He said that he and George surfed Lefts, just the two of them, until dark many evenings. He had some great stories.
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