23.6

Send Them Bagels

23.5

Steeped In The Brew

Nathan Fletcher has spent most of his life in the shadow of his family. In 2011, however, he dropped into one of the heaviest waves…

23.5

Sick

Pro skater Grayson Fletcher is the scion of the Hoffman/Fletcher axis, a distinction wrought with blessings and perhaps more than one curse. Luckily, most of…

23.5

Dragged Into The Daylight

23.5

Woman In The Workplace

To really understand the inner-workings of a dynasty, it helps to have an insider show you the kingdom. Lady Astrodeck walks us through her marriage…

23.5

Spearhead

Academics seek knowledge. Capitalists seek wealth. The Fletchers have chased hedonistic experience. For Herbie Fletcher, this worldview has translated into hanging with the likes of…

23.5

There Are No Sharks

Late-millennial big-wave waterman Marty Hoffman spent much of his youth in the orbit of his father, Flippy, surfing the North Shore, Indo, and deep into…

23.5

Shitty But Good

Flippy Hoffman was part surfer, part pirate, part business-hawk, and all character. Along with his younger brother, Walter, his Hawaiian big-wave water time in the…

23.5

Sui Generis

Joyce Hoffman established the image of the archetypal pro surfer. Fiercely competitive and highly photogenic, she won four U.S. Championships in the 1960s and 70s,…

23.5

Batik With Chili Pepper Crab

Walter Hoffman was in early at Malibu and then went farther afield to sample big surf in Makaha and along the North Shore. His efforts…

23.5

Nuclear Family

23.5

Tierra De Patagones

Chilean surf gauchos Julian and Joaquin Azulay left Buenos Aires in a truck loaded with camping gear on a mission to scout an underexplored island…