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  1. 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.

  2. Feb 15, 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, told ...

  3. Feb 16, 2011 · Sterling, although best known now for his quirky and odd sense of humor, is one of the better surfers of his generation. A few years back at a WQS event in Sebastian Inlet, Sterling beat Cory and me in back-to-back man-on-man heats while a huge crowd of Floridians watched.

  4. Feb 15, 2011 · In the past two weeks the surf world has lost two legends in the form of fabled photographer Leroy Grannis and surf icon Jimmy Blears. 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.

  5. Although far too soon, Yancy Spencer (who always threw in that “the third”) part, had about as graceful a departure as any of us can hope for – he was at peace with his God, he had led an amazing personal and professional life, a devoted family.

  6. 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.

  7. As a 9th grader, Yancy Spencer III hitchhiked to Pensacola Beach Florida on May 1st, 1965. There he borrowed a board from his best friend Ken Roose. That b...