[This article originally appeared in SURFER Magazine, Volume 60, Issue 1. Subscribe here.] Through the 1990s, there was indeed no slap on the North Shore feared more than that from Pipe commander Johnny Boy Gomes, the bruising power surfer who, at 5’9″ and 200 pounds, was built like a bulldozer with a ferocious temper to match.
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