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Volume 14 NO. 3 - Summer '05
Gasoline Alley (tow surfing origins) By Herbie Fletcher, Occasional Breaches of Structural Integrity: The Peculiar Craft of Dale Kobetich (camera housings) By Ben Marcus, Saudacoes de Fernando de Noronha By Kimball Taylor, Portfolio: Tom Servais, Gallery: Melinda Morey Owning Her Nature By Scott Hulet, Cold Turkey Coming Clean in the Hinako Islands By Shane Peel, Blood Feud Searching for Surf in Somalia By Jay Quick and Cole Estrada, Eye Openers: Seven Trips that Changed Rob Gilley’s View of Travel, The Road to Mogadishu Warlords, Whippings, and Shadows in the Surf By Jay Quick and Cole Estrada. Plus: helicopters below the lip line, How to Steal an Airplane, Betrayed in India, The Life Aquatic with Tim McKenna, Tim Elsner’s Quiver of Dreams, A Pro Comes Home, Vancouver surf shacks, and 83-year-old Doc Paskowitz f*&*in’ OWNING Queens on his kneeboard. Volume 14 NO. 3 - Summer '05
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Cover
Darryl Virotsko drops out of the sky during the Quiksilver in memory of Eddie Aikau. Photo by Jim Russi.
Page One
Jaws, on the same day as the cover shot, with five helicopters, dozens of PWC's, inflatables and one small yacht. Photo by Tom Servais.
Table of Contents
The table of contents for Volume 14, No. 3, features Malia Manuel and Coco Ho having a ball at Pupukea. Photo by Dan Merkel
Dad's Piper Cub
Brian Howell recall's a giant Northwest swell in the fall of 1976, when he along with his best friend, Mark Wildman, took to the air in his father's J-3 Piper Cub to check all the big wave spots. Howell recounts seeing only two guys out at Waimea bay, as he yelled "Outside!" from the window of the plane.
Betrayed
Alex Stanich gives a harrowing first hand account of the tsunami that ravaged his "Surfer's Dream" life on the island of Sri Lanka.
Gasoline Alley
"Having let the tow genie out of the bottle, Herbie Fletcher checks the state of the art." Herbie Fletcher talks tow in surfing, and recalls a giant swell at Jaws on December 15, 2004.
Occasional Breaches of Structural Integrity
The intriguing story of Dale Kobetich who pioneered water housing construction in the 70's and 80's. Kobetich was often criticized and dubbed "irresponsible" by fellow surf photographers, as he was known to take a very long time to complete water-housing orders.
