Just today I sadly learned of Charlies passing. Having left Long Island many years ago I've lost touch with so many good people involved with surfing on Long Island. I started surfing around 1967 and the only surfboard I rode was a Bunger.  To me the name Bunger was and always will be synonymous with surfing. I remember hanging out at the Bunger surf shack at Gilgo with Charlie, Kevin, and many of my surfing buds. In an odd sort of way these people became my family. I left the surfing scene around 1977 and to this day I remember the good times I had riding a Bunger surfboard. Thank you, Charlie, for being such an important part of my life back in the day. God speed!  

Going to Babylon , picking up all those news surfboards and getting back to Shinnecock surf shop in hampton bays trying to decide on what board I wanted. Every trip was a new board... the pig, the bonzer, the longboard(6'8"). I always had a great quiver Charlie... thanks for adding to my life and joy...

In life you meet a few special people, Charlie Bunger was one of them!  He worked hard, Played hard, always surrounded by his family.  He laid the groundwork for his funeral services almost twenty years and his family kept his wishes, even creating a beach motif complete with surfboards at the funeral home. (see photo)  I know that every time I see a Bunger Board or pass Bunger Surf Shop,  I'll think of Charlie and remember the legacy he started.

rip Charlie went there with my son Charlie 6 grade present bought his first board let's bogie     rip 


Charlie was certainly a forerunner in Long Island surfing . Known to many world wide . A pleasure to have met him & family . Certainly a legend , and will be greatly missed by anyone who met him . Way before his time .

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Charles W. Bunger

5 February, 1941 – 2 July, 2018

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