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Yancy Bailey Spencer III (July 2, 1950 – February 14, 2011) was a surfer from Pensacola, Florida, who was widely regarded as the father of Gulf Coast surfing. [1]
15 feb 2011 · Yesterday, a third name was added to that list when the "godfather" of Gulf Coast surfing, Yancy Spencer III, died of a heart attack in Malibu. He was 60 years old. Spencer began surfing during the mid 1960s along the Florida's Gulf Coast.
3 apr 2011 · After Easter Surf in Cocoa Beach in 2005, he decided to focus his attention and travel time on son Yancy, the latest in the line of Spencer surf royalty. Only 23-years-old at the time, Sterling already boasted a string of sponsors and titles.
Yancy Spencer III was born in 1950 in Roanoke, Virginia, then moved with his family to Pensacola, Florida, where he began surfing at 14. He got his first surfboard from the local Hutson hardware store. “It was May 1, 1965,” Spencer recalled in a 2009 interview.
THE STORY OF YANCY SPENCER III. Yancy first picked up a surfboard and his inaugural wave on the Gulf of Mexico at Pensacola Beach, FL on May 1, 1965. Regarded internationally as the best surfer to come out of the Gulf Coast area, Yancy remembers the summer of '65 when out of curiosity he picked up a friend's board and paddled out among the waves.
16 feb 2011 · I know it is not a huge surf community, rich in surf culture, but Yancy Spencer was as noble of a surfer to ever call the Gulf of Mexico home. And to all of us that share the bond of having to surf some of the worst waves on the planet, he was our Duke.
15 feb 2011 · Gulf Coast surfing legend Yancy Spencer III died on Monday from a heart attack after surfing Malibu in California. “He was very healthy, very fit,” his brother and partner, J.B. Schluter,...
