The Great Ocean of Atmosphere

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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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Ben Marcus talks to Terry “Tubesteak” and wife Phyllis Tracy about the origin of his nickname, the origin of the shack in Malibu and what Malibu was like in the 50s and 60s with Miki Dora, growing up in San Onofre in the summer.