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Volume 15 NO. 4 - Summer '06
Island of Wire By Derek Hynd Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Art of Andy Davis By Devon Howard Other Roadside: Attractions Words and photos by Michael Kew So, What Do You Do With a Mystical Day? By Terry Fitzgerald Will the World's Greatest Surfer Please Lie Down? By Bruce Jenkins El Hombre Invisible (With apologies to William S. Burroughs) An Owl Chapman Story By Jeff Johnson Plus… A surfer's escape on the high seas, the photography of Pete Frieden (all I'll say is Gavin Beschen ages, he's in the tube so long), and wilderness surf exploration by paddleboard. Volume 15 NO. 4 - Summer '06
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Cover
Dan Malloy travels hands-free through a glowing backside barrel; leashes not welcome.
Page One
"A collection of photographs of Owl Chapman, taken by Jeff Divine, depict Owl's stylish approach to riding the waves of the North Shore."
Table of Contents
A view from behind of a backside rail-grab aerial in the Mentawais.
Go For Your Life
Randy Dale writes about his escape from Tonga after being charged with cultivating Marijuana, setting up a couple of lonely months of sailing through the Pacific with a mini compass guiding his attempt to reach Australia.
Island of Wire
"Derek Hynd masterfully writes of Tasmania and Jeremy ""Wire"" Curtain's relative positioning in the surfing community and the greater world, with a visit from Kelly Slater and Eddie Vedder providing a foil to Wire's uniquely Tasmanian life, musical, and surfing experiences."
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow
"Devon Howard visits surfer-artist Andy Davis at his home in Carmel by the Sea, attempting to understand the man behind the artwork that has had a magnetic effect on so many surfers and non-surfers alike."
Other Roadside Attractions
Michael Kew manages to capture some very epic photos of Northern and Central Californian surf spots that require copius amounts of rubber.
So, What Do you Do with a Mystical Day?
"Terry Fitzgerald and sons Kye and Joel experience first-hand the rewards of venturing from Jeffrey's Bay for a day and checking Cape St. Francis, the subject of many a notebook doodle thanks to Bruce Brown. Joel and Kye ride a couple of their father Terry's Driftas to the grave in epic surf."
Albatross
An exhibition of Pete Frieden's surf photography takes us on a colorful liquid journey around the world, watching the world's best surfers interact with the world's best waves. Freiden, a Florida native, has spent a good deal of his life on the road, shooting often with Cory and Shea Lopez, the late Andy Irons and other top surfers in exotic locales from the Mentawai Islands to France to Australia.
Will the World's Greatest Surfer Please Lie Down?
The epic stoy of pioneer waterman Mike Stewart's career and personal life involves some of the biggest and heaviest waves ever ridden in such fearless and futuristic ways, whether bodysurfing or bodyboarding or inventing some other way to ride waves. Through good times and bad, rich times and poor, Stewart's relentless survival instincts have propelled him through the most adverse oceanic and social circumstances, and his ability to put up a fight has allowed him to prevail through some heavy hold-downs.
El Hombre Invisible
When Jeff Johnson decides to order a 10'0"" Waimea gun from North Shore icon Owl Chapman, an upfront cash payment keeps Jeff on his toes for over 2 months, but the long wait and the end product provide a window into Chapman's intriguing presence (or lack therof) as a North Shore surfer and shaper over the years.
Undercurrents
"Todd Saunders, Joe Bark, Dan Dixon, and Tanner Beckett form a core crew of dedicated and curious paddle boarders who have explored the intricate coastlines of British Columbia, and are looking forward to many more expeditions in the future."
