As a Chris Hawk surfboard is held up to the sky, nearly 200 surfers sitting on their boards in a makeshift circle unclasp their hands and spray the ocean water upward.
More friends and family watching the memorial paddle-out from the Huntington Beach Pier cheer, and soon a chant starts: “Hawk! Hawk! Hawk!”
Surfboard shaper and ’70s icon Christopher Lee Hawk – also known as “the Hawk” — was remembered Sunday during a ceremony that brought hundreds of friends and family to the beach break where decades ago Hawk could be found taking barrel rides.
“It was a beautiful send-off for a perfect guy,” said his wife, Kathy.
Hawk, of San Clemente, died on Oct. 23 from throat cancer. He was 58.
Read the full story here. Photos by Mike Goulding/Orange County Register








Two of surfing’s greats died this weekend, and were remembered by the surf community along the Orange County coast.







