Dave Johnson is one of the lucky ones, who gets to do what he loves and get paid for it. The UCSB graduate’s chosen profession is operating Progressive Surfboards, a big wave’s break from Hollister and South Fairview, his business since 1975.
Since then, he’s been fortunate to have chased beach breaks and point breaks all over the Good Land, in between reincarnations of the popular retail and custom surfboard shop.