text:  The story has needed to be told for a long time. Dick Brewer is kind of the Leonardo da Vinci of surfboard design. He changed the world of surfboards and shapes three different times in his lifetime. Once when he did a board specifically for Pipeline, called the Pipeliner. Once when he invented the Minigun, the one that actually really worked as far as shortboards and the shortboard revolution goes. And then a third time, many years later, when he designed a board for tow surfing.