21.5

Bernie’s House

Before multi-million dollar corporations vied for every inch of real estate along Oahu’s North Shore, there was Bernie’s yard. Gerry Lopez, Rabbit Bartholomew, and Bernie…

21.5

The Best Way to Chew Qat

We cannot recommend surfing in Yemen, and perhaps you won’t either after reading Charlie Smith’s account of three months among the stellar pointbreaks in Al…

21.5

Shifting Sands

Ben Mondy sifts through typical perceptions of surf travel in France to unearth a more genuine experience of the original expat haunt for Americans: “Surfing…

21.4

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. Its…

21.4

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. With a handful of hard-charging…

21.4

Waypoints

As word trickles out that Kaifu is holding, missions to the super typhoon-rich south of Japan are becoming a necessary pinpoint on the traveling surfer’s…

21.3

Gow’s Boatshed by Midget Farrelly

Australia's Whale Beach has remained a quaint, boat-building community since Frank Gonsalves first rented slip space at Carl Gow's boatshed in the early 1960s. Time…

21.3

California Reverb

Ruminations from the California coast.

21.3

Redundant Perfection on The Diamond Coast

Journeying far off the well-worn path, Grant "Twiggy" Baker and a handful of his South African cohorts uncover a bounty of slabbing diamonds in the…

21.3

Wild at Heart

At home with Los Angeles-based architect and man of the world Harry Gesner.

21.3

Seward’s Folly, Scott’s Reward

Life in Alaska is hard no matter what you do, but for those that ply the icy waters in search of ridable waves, it's an…

21.3

Bigger, Faster, Louder, Deeper

Part rock star, part TV star, part dedicated big-wave lunatic, Australia's Ross Clarke Jones is a lot of things. But over his 30-plus years of…