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The Road to Chinchilla
Yasha Hetzel brings us along on a surf trip to a remote and rugged area with surf to match. The tale is as much about the long arduous trip and the people they meet along the as the great surf they eventually find.
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![[All captions by the photographer] Joel Parkinson, Cloudbreak. You see a surfer’s style in everything they do in the water—even in the way they kick out. Even though he’s a world champion, he probably would have won even more heats had he not made things look so easy.](https://surfersjournal.ipdev.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/servais14_33385.jpg)
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Built to Last
Tom Servais has been sharpshooting arcade ducks for nearly four decades…and counting.
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Foam Dust – 25 Years of FCD Surfboards, Presented by Patagonia
The indefinite history of Fletcher Chouinard Designs.
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Pseudo Escondido
It’s a crude sport—packing tubes. Take one thumping beachbreak. Add a little performance-enhancing squirt from some modern machinery. The methods are as lawless as the thrill-seekers. Christian Beamish reports on the stretch of black sand in Mainland Mexico where it all goes down.
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Tarzan Redux: Chapter Fill-ins from the Life of Gene Smith
This continued documentary of “Tarzan”, Gene Smith, pioneer waterman and unsurpassed paddle-boarder, closes the chapter on a fighting man’s slow descent and return to a sanctuary in the California desert. From the tragic death of his mother at age 7, fighting and defending himself and his younger sister from the ravages of angry guardians and local street gangs to his self-imposed exile from society in the lumber camps of Oregon, he blazed a trail, ‘cruising for a bruising’ in the ‘30s that earned him the nickname “Tarzan”. Migrating to Hawaii from Southern California, he established himself as a pioneer waterman and a record holding marathon inter-island paddler, often unheralded and largely unsung, a loner on ocean and land.
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Rolling with Frank
Dorian ""Doc"" Paskowitz humorously recounts some of the tales from 1930s and '40s Hawaii and California that capture the legacy of his crazy Irishman friend Frank Donahue.
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