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The Archivist: A Reckoning

David Eggers found something like grace in the desert.

 
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Hot Curl

Finless surfing filtered through the mid-century Hawaiians.

 
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Roadside Death Marker

Short fiction from the TSJ archives.

 
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What The Hell Is A Waterman?

Dissecting one of surfing's most loaded labels.

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Two Decades Behind the Century

Modern nostalgia, filtered through the 650mm Century lens of deliberate retrogressive Tatsuo Takei.

 
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Displacements

Alex Kopps, the Gothic Dolphins, and displacement hulls from TSJ Volume 18.

 
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Extinction Level Event

How various single-fin experiments were subsumed by the course of multi-fin history.

 
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Memories of Peta

Gerald Saunders on the discovery—and death—of Petacalco from TSJ Volume 8.

 
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Like Bees On A Raft Of Air

In the shadow of elders in 1950s Laguna.

 
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The Archivist

Non-vanilla extracts from the life and times of TSJ.

 
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Strength and Honor

An Odyssey with Ivan Trent

 
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The Road to Angourie

The 1960s surf photography of Bob Weeks

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