text:  Yeah, so he had those family tragedies, but then worked through that time and through that loss, but then went on to develop other things. The funny thing about Dick is that his longevity was part of his success because there were actually people like Laird Hamilton, whose father, Billy, stepfather Billy, but the man who raised him and who was a great surfer of the 60s, he had championed Brewer's boards. When he was one of the top surfers,