Volume 21 Issue 4
This issue opens with Dave Rastovich at Jeffreys Bay, as captured by Thomas Campbell. Interest points inside include Ken “Skindog” Collins' telling of why Shane Dorian is the best surfer he’s ever seen, Jeff Johnson delving into the handiwork of Hawaiian craftsman Jon Pyzel, a look at a never-before-surfed Canadian slab, the scrutinization of pointy nosed boards get scrutinized, and the Midwest waverider getting his due.
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THE LAST SURFBOARD TREE
The ancients used the wood to make their olos, amas and such. Today only a few natural stands of Wiliwili trees remain on Oahu.
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The Scars of Yorkshire
Captain Cook didn’t have to go to Hawaii to find good surf, it was right out his backdoor all along.
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Waypoints
Kayak hunting the Southwest Pacific
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One Particular Harbor
We all toy with the idea pulling up stakes and sailing to the South Pacific, but few actually follow through with it.
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WEST OF GRACETOWN
Those that were there consider it the biggest day in Australian surfing history.
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A GOMES FAMILY SAGA
“Papa” Abel Gomes was a staple of Hawaiian surfing until he picked up stakes and moved his family to California in the 1950s
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THE SEA GIVETH
Re-interpreting Japan
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Let’s Get Wrong
Spending his working days tending to Surfing magazine’s flock of photographers, Peter Taras has a well-developed eye and an acute compositional sense.
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Full Speed Rewind
The Momentum Generation defined the 1990s, but as Ross Williams explains about surfing’s greatest boy band, it wasn’t all shakas and quick edits.
