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The Best I Ever Saw: Shaun Claffey
The Best I Ever Saw: Looking through a copy of "Photo: Grannis," the author sees a photo of his favorite surfer: a classic black-and-white photo captioned "unidentified." With the mystery solved, Schurman recollects Shaun's classic maneuvers and impressions he made when he was just a grom at local Santa Barbara breaks throughout the '60s.Blank Expression: A confined, lonesome, dirty job: "Behold the humble sander." Take a peak at one of San Diego's most famous surfboard sanders—Kenny Mann.
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The Last Surfboard Tree
The ancients used the wood to make their olos, amas and such. Today only a few natural stands of Wiliwili trees remain on Oahu. Its whereabouts are a closely guarded secret, fraught with political complications, but that might just be for the better.
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Tagging Along A Dream
"A married couple sail from California to Panama along the Pacific Coast of Central America, inspired by a photo of Nexpa taken by the husband years earlier on an overland voyage through Central America."
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Sessions Measured in Millimeters
Bodysurfing alone in the Pacific Northwest.
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The Eye of the Hunter
Derek Dunfee’s evolution from big-wave surfer to big-wave photographer. Excerpted from TSJ 29.3.
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Gallery: Good Vibrations
Neil Stebbins speaks with Ron Anderson about Anderson's upbeat-surf-inspired artwork.
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