"Life is a wave. Your attitude is your surfboard.
Stay stoked & aim for the light! "
-Drew Kampion
-Drew Kampion
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Billy Jack Hagerman
1:21 PM on May 31, 2017
Your Dad's boards were a favorite of mine even though I was born a few years too late to get a hold of them. It was a pleasure meeting Dan and discussing Plastic Fantastic and his ideas to bring the classic boards back as "Classic Fantastic". I was repping for Joel Tudor back then so he even had me talk to Jock on one of my Hawaii trips and get him on board to release a board with his name on it. Not sure if Dan ever did it, but I know it would have been great. My fondest memory is when I first met him when we were judging a surf contest in Westport. I showed him an old Surfer mag I had that highlighted Huntington Beach and had a shot of him hanging out on Main street. His eyes lit up and he began telling me all about the photo as well as other things about my hometown HB back then. He still had the stoke. He laughed at me when I asked him to sign it, but I am so glad I did. He was and always will be a huge part of surfing. RIP Danny.
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Max
12:31 PM on August 27, 2014
Hey guys, send me an email address I've got some photos of an old Daniel Calohan Single fin that found it's way to me. It was passed down from the rafters to me, by Gary Hinds. He surfed it at sebastian inlet in his hey day and has now passed on. It's headed back for an inlet session after being plugged up and cleaned. 1-4 ft and clean.
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Steve Herring
2:29 PM on January 30, 2013
We first met Dan and Melisa some time in 1990. That beautiful jewlery box you see in the photo gallery was crafted by Dan at my request for a surprise anniversary present for my wife Irene. I believe he won first prize at the fair with it that year . Wow, what an incredibly gifted artisan he was. He will be missed by all those whose lives he touched.
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Glenn Hargrove
4:55 AM on January 10, 2013
I had the pleasure of getting to know Dan and Melissa while working for them years ago...........I don't think I've ever met a kinder soul than Dan......He will be missed by many!
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Don Koplien
9:28 AM on January 1, 2013
I was part of Plastic Fantastic when we tried to open a shop in Hawaii 1968. It didn't work out and I went on to be part of Lilghtning Bolt with Lopez and Shipley. Dan and I worked together in an old house we turned into a surfboard shop on the north shore. Myself, Dan, Dave Garner, John Boozer and Greg Tucker.
Thank you for this....a beautiful tribute and remembrance of a loving, gentle, funny, intelligent, supremely talented man. So grateful to have had him in my life....all of the Calohans.....a blessing indeed. Love to you and yours......aiming for the light.....mission accomplished. xoxoxox
Thank you everyone for posting your kind words for Dad. This means a lot to my family and I. Every time I get a notification that someone has commented, I scramble to the computer to check it out....Thank you Thank You....so comforting reading about him..xoxox
I had the pleasure of knowing Dan and working with him.he was a great teacher.he took me from being a framer to fine wood working.When I got back into surfing years ago after a bit off my friend and talented guitar maker Bobby Waren said he was working with a amazing wood worker and also shaped surf boards.I called my friend who I had surfed with since the 60's and asked about Dan.When I found out I wanted one of his boards.I met him and we hit it off good stoke I asked him if he would make me a board.we made a bay in the shop and Friday Harbor's first surf boards were made.I still have and ride my 8'0 it is fast through the sections and likes a late drop[seems age makes latter drops] I could call him when I ran into some thing in the shop and he would tell me how to do it.I am really going to miss him.Ride the good wave Danny.
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Kerwin Johnson
6:44 PM on December 12, 2012
I was priviledged to have known Dan along with Melissa and the girls for many years. What a gentle soul - Dan truly walked lightly on this earth but left big impressions of who he was, a kind and caring guy. Margaret and I are blessed to have some of his woodworks within our home as a lasting tribute to his craftmanship. We will continue to treasure them as well as the man that created them.
Ride the "big wave" and "hang loose" into eternity Dan. We miss you Dan but we know that your spirit lives on in those you touched while you were here among us.
A friend forever.
Kerwin
Ride the "big wave" and "hang loose" into eternity Dan. We miss you Dan but we know that your spirit lives on in those you touched while you were here among us.
A friend forever.
Kerwin
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