The First Cut Is the Deepest

Name: The Surfer's Journal
Price range: $

Feature • 19 min read

Long misunderstood and overlooked, the channel bottom holds boundless potential for its faithful.

By Christian Beamish

Volume 31 Issue 4 (2022)

33.1
The Slender Man

A small scratch into nonagenarian Dick Metz’s…

By Steve Pezman
29.1
The End of the Circle

Typhoid, dengue fever, heartbreak, madness.…

By Nathan Myers
26.5
I Cut Off a Friend

Surfing’s rules are nebulous—where they exist at…

By Scott Bass
23.1
727 Laguna Canyon Road

The Apple computer, the hot road, the Owsley…

By Paul Holmes

Featured in

Volume 31 Issue 4

In this issue

On the cover: Simon Murdoch, making every use of his residential knowledge and hanging on by the tip of his single-fin against the sundowner winds, somewhere in the 805. Photo by Trent Stevens. Other drop-ins include the peer study of a shaper’s half century in the game, the surf holdings of an island in the Bering Sea, and channel bottom masters showing proof of work. Cultural check-ins include the contemporary surf scene of a once-romanticized Mexican beach town, an in-depth look at a Southern California landscape in 1950, a folk-rockstar’s Atlantic-set island redoubt, and more.

Preview

— / 17

The First Cut Is the Deepest

Related Articles

The Slender Man

The End of the Circle

I Cut Off a Friend

727 Laguna Canyon Road

Volume 31 Issue 4