Long Soggy Saga

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A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is vivid, authoritative, and independent. The goal of each 132-page bimonthly edition? A completely resolved composition. Balance. Color. Story. And purist surf energy from Page One to close-of-book.

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In 1965, the International Paper Company hired Tom Morey to make a surfboard out of a newly-developed cardboard designed to withstand moisture; Morey then paddled the porous craft out at Makaha to shoot a commercial, and lived to tell us about the hilarious ordeal.