Boards of Infamy

Name: The Surfer's Journal
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Feature • 16 min read

The golden era of surfboard smuggling was brief, coinciding with what many consider to be the definitive American decade.

By Cedar Hobbs

Volume 32 Issue 1 (2023)

35.5
Cool Culture

Chris Carter, the former Surfing magazine editor…

By Travis Ferré
35.4
Pink Noise

Rewinding the Japanese cult classic “A Scene at…

By Ron de Leeuw
35.3
Captain Fun

The still photography of the late Sonny Miller.

By Jamie Brisick
35.3
Welcome to Hel

Chasing grinding Baltic cylinders in Poland.

By Jason Lock

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On the cover: Shaun Manners, achieving low orbit somewhere in the Australian desert. “I love getting down to the dez,” says photographer Josh Tabone. “It’s cold. It’s raw. It’s a little bit eerie, and it kind of sorts the men from the boys.” Other glide paths inside include one woman’s inexplicable draw to the world’s deadliest wave, trafficking contraband via foam and fiberglass, the collision of aerospace and surf culture in a champion-breeding town, a freewheeling French Caribbean export, high-horsepower fabrications, and a low-brow artist’s big-wave motif.

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