SURFING the web has helped a Durban family come across a family heirloom that they might not have found without logging into Facebook.
The family of well-known surfer Colin Doveton has been collecting the many surfboards he shaped by hand since the 1980s. The surfer with an engineering background pioneered the shaping of channels onto surfboards to make them more aerodynamic, according to his daughter Michelle.
Doveton died a few years ago.
Another well-known figure in the