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I Don’t Paint Blondes
I meet Pandora Decoster in her hometown of Biarritz, France, at La Côte des Basques. Old French villas and classic…
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The Forbidden Island
Here on Kaua‘i, kings of my surfing generation—the post-WWII-born surfers who were young but also well into longboarding when the shortboard…
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Where Silence Reigns
A steamy cafe perched hawk-like over the Puget Sound. Amid the clatter of dishes, the sizzle of frying eggs, and…
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Finding Andrew
“I was here before it was here…” Andrew Blauschild announces in one of the parking lots at the East Coast…
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Outer Waters: The Voyage of the Rhino
LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIADepartureDistance traveled under sail: 10 nautical milesLocation: 33°31.531’N 117°45.455’W The freedom of floating across the dark abyss of…
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Outer Waters
Surfing—a maritime activity by definition—has always kept a hand on the tiller. From pre-contact Polynesia to the quartet of passage-makers…
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Outer Waters: Deep Learning
STEEP CURVES By Torren Martyn In a lot of ways, I’ve always been intimidated by the ocean. There’s no controlling…
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Outer Waters: Patience & Placement
The first week of the new year sees Southern California on the business end of a monstrous flex, the Pacific…
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Outer Waters: Gunboat Captain
Vela is a 48-foot carbon catamaran. She’s a performance gunboat from Morrelli & Melvin and more stripped down than some…
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The Infallible Freshness of Surf
The artist, brown-skinned and barefoot like everyone else in this neighborhood in Sydney, wears blue jeans and a matching shirt unbuttoned…
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Desert Sleds
In the early 1970s, I was working in Southern California for Dave Rochlen’s Surf Line Hawaii. I spent many grueling…
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La Crise Requine
Arnault Gauthier cuts the engines on the ski boat and points to an orange buoy ahead of us, which rises…