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Square One
Lindsay Lord's planing hull study in Hawaii during WWII marks an obscure pivotal moment in surf history. After discovering Lord's book Naval Architecture of Planing Hulls, Bob Simmons developed the first hydrodynamic planing hull. Fast forward to 2009. Ryan Burch and Lucas Dirkse are students of riding simple surfable finless boards of closed-cell foam: They work the same with a fin, only faster and are strong enough to ride without glassing.
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Tranquila La Plaza
For a hundred or so local surfers, day-tripping Sinaloa is— tentatively—back on the table.
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Behind Bars: Pt. Dume to Lompoc, A Surfing Odyssey
Arnold Zelonka tells the tale of a surfer that goes to great lengths to surf the private access perfection of Point Dume. Finally he steals a car just for the gate key is caught and lands in the slammer.
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Brief Encounter
Bill Wise recounts a conversation with Mickey Dora during the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational at Sunset Beach in 1967. Wise exposes a rare compassionate side of Dora quite contrary to much of the mythology surrounding 'Da Cat.
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A Beautiful Pandemonium: How Rick Griffin Became the Unlikely Herald of the Psychedelic Revolution
Steve Barilotti provides a biography of iconic surf artist Rick Griffin. This piece follows Rick from his days as a high school student contributing the Murphy comics to Surfer Magazine, to his eventual conversion to Christianity and illustrating the book of John. The path he took was anything but ordinary. He started the mid sixties in art school in Los Angeles, but ended up right in the middle of the psychedelic experiments at the height of the hippie movement in San Francisco. While there he created groundbreaking psychedelic poster art and album covers for the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and many others. He was also a part of the influential Zap Comix founded by R. Crumb. After an apocalypse scare lead him to New York in the late sixties he came back to Southern California and worked with John Severson and Surfer Magazine again, creating the tremendous artwork for Severson’s film Pacific Vibrations.
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A Train Going West
Foundational Aussie media maestro Bob evans was a gentlemen of the road
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