Jack "Capt.
Ono" Reilly, the Creator of Creation Surfboards.
Jack "Capt. Ono" Reilly blasts through at Oxnard Shores,
CA 2004.
Ono slices another one of his signature
casual bottom turns, Ventura Point, Dec. 2009
Daytona
Beach 1966
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Ono
slicin' across a cool one in Ventura County, CA. 1998 |
Capt. Ono 1972
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Ono
slippin' into the zone, Ventura Point, December 2009
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Creation "Ono" Model
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Gerry Lopez greets Ono at Pipeline, Hawaii 1995 |
Hanging out in Biarritz, France 1993
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Walkin' on water, Ventura County, CA 1998
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Ono:
backhand power drive - Anglet, France 1993
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Capt. Ono 1976
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Hangin'
in Malibu 1987 |
Malibu
1987
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Oxnard
Shores 2005
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Ono,
curtain call - Ventura Point 2003 |
"Capt.
Ono" 1975. New Smyrna Beach, Florida
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Jack
Ono Reilly, Ventura Point, CA 2004 |
David
Nuuhiwa and Jack "Ono" Reilly
Ventura, 2007
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After
graduating from Florida State University in 1978, Jack
"Capt. Ono" Reilly
moved to California. He worked for CON surfboards in Venice,
CA as shaper, pinstriper, and airbrush artist. In 1979 he established
his career as a fine artist in the Los Angeles art scene and
went on to exhibit his paintings
nationwide. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Art
Department at California State University Channel Islands. He teaches courses
in painting, digital filmmaking and video art as well as the
Zen of Surfng.
An experienced "Zen Surfer," Ono can be regularly
spotted surfing the breaks of Ventura County, where it is rumored
he now resides. Ono still makes
CREATION boards on an extremely limited basis for his own use
and occasionally for a surf bro.
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