Editorial
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A Friend to Face the Current
The waves were perfect. A sleepy haze hung over the sea surface, brimming with warm, radiant sunlight and humming with…
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Tentative in Manabí
I needed a hat. Let me explain: My working quiver doesn’t travel well. Lifeguard atrocities. Park helmets (sisal piths favored…
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The Common Man
It isn’t easy to write about Bill Caster. There is no “perfect storm” peak in his life. Unlike some of…
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Tropical Patina
It’s funny how remote a neighboring island can feel, even if it’s just a short flight on a puddle jumper…
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Slab of Irish Rock
Like two men on a park bench watching the world go by, Barry Mottershead and I sit on the ski…
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Bright Crafts in Dark City
“I started going to Asbury Park in ’98,” says Phil Browne, the co-founder of Glide Surf Co. “I was 17,…
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Mark Cunningham
Apple | Spotify | YouTube Mark Cunningham, aka The Human Fish, is hailed as one of the greatest bodysurfers of…
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Batik with Chili Pepper Crab
[Editor’s note: Originally published in TSJ 23.5, October, 2014, this feature has been digitally remastered and republished on our site…
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Harrison Roach in “Proper by Any Measure”
“Long before he won a world title in 2022,” Michael Adno writes in TSJ 33.3, “Harrison Roach was known as…
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Sunset, That’s It
I haven’t missed a North Shore winter since I came here in 1958, and I’ve become very narrow-minded. I surf…
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Monuments of Nonconformity
Listed in this treatise is a small but representative sample of the numerous indelibly colorful individuals who, to me, stand…
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The Jungle Endures
In the beginning was G-Land—almost literally for the Javan people, who believed this jungled eastern tip of Java was the…