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On the cover: Eithan Osborne, apex phase, Indonesia. “He had a career session that day,” says photographer Duncan Macfarlane. we view the stills of a revered auteur, report from the Baltic Sea, camp in South Africa, and study the open-ocean exploits and innovations of a Garden Isle surfer/navigator. We also follow the unadulterated tracks of an Australian modern classicist, examine the compulsive need for waves, hook big bass in Middle America with a Hawaiian shredder, and more.