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To me thats the number one sign of good character, being nice to people you dont know and can do nothing for you.I emailed Eaton about a paddle board years ago.
He was super nice.
When people are nice to strangers like that I always think, I need to be like that.
It's just hard when you have.a black devil heart like mine.
1 Met him (not long after meeting Dale Velzy) when I ordered a custom 18' paddleboard at his shop in SD. We shook hands, he said some nice things about Velzy and that they were old friends, and my new custom would be better than my 18' Velzy (it was).
2 Sold that custom board from him to an interesting guy from Petaluma who "I think(?)" owned a surf shop and said he was going to paddle it at some lake up there. One day, I found a picture of it online in a high vault ceiling, full on grandma style living room standing up against the wall. It was so out of place and really weird and really cool at the same time.
3 RIP Mr. Eaton.
Eaton's paddleboard marketplace got a ton of people in the water over the yearsRest Easy, Mike.
around a fifteen years ago, I was looking for a prone paddleboard on the east coast, anywhere mid Atlantic. Mike was stocked to help. A single board shipped east was cost prohibitive for me at the time but he kept an ear out. About 4 months after we last chatted, he calls up out of the blue about an used unlimited in the area that would work for me and what I wanted to do. I think he was more pumped about it than I was. Alotta great experiences on that board. Thank you, Mike.
a master in his element. A beautiful moment captured.