Bob Kugel

Bob Kugel grew up in Edison, NJ, but has a long history on Long Beach Island. His family’s first one-week LBI vacation was in Beach Haven Gardens in 1970 when he was 13. He was hooked on the Island . Fast forward a decade, and in 1980 he owned one of the classic Holgate trailers. Four years later he bought a house in Ship Bottom. He became a full-time borough resident in 2005. A veteran of New Jersey’s telecommunications industry, he retired in 2005 and took advantage of the beach life ― surf, sand, and fishing ― when not doing carpentry and home improvements. He also worked from 2005 to 2022 at Southern Ocean Medical Center, which he says was “was an education about life, death, illness, medicine, and the importance of taking care of YOU.” When he’s not making surf art, you can find him on Facebook on his favorite LBI beach badge group, or giving online weather reports all summer long.