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Left: Bill, Chris (3) and Josh (9)
at a Southern North Carolina
Eastern Surfing Association
contest at the Cove in Fort
Fisher, 1984. Bottom left:
Josh (12) and Chris (6) wait to
start their heat at a Southern
North Carolina Eastern
Surfing Association contest
in Wrightsville Beach, 1987.
Josh passed on his love of
surfing to his son, Logan,
shown here at age 6 at
Wrightsville’s south end.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CURRY FAMILY
By contrast, the spark of ath-leticism
and competitiveness
struck the younger Curry.
“One of the most amazing
things is to have been able to
grow up in a surfing family. I
got to see the world because
of it,” Chris says. He was able
to join his father traveling
to competitions and on surf
trips, exposing him to some
of the world’s surfing elite at
a young age. Bill and Chris
were both on the Eastern
Surfing Association’s All-Star
team, and the U.S. Surfing
Team, competing at the world
level together. Eventually, they
ended up head-to-head in
the same final of a longboard
competition, in which their
humble, mutual respect for one
another predicated the result.