Columns Waterspot‘We’re on fire!’Chris AhrensMay 17, 2022 May 17, 2022037 It seems strange to contemplate now, but in 1990 there were no surf films concerning what I have termed the “Longboard Renaissance.”
Columns WaterspotSurf shacksChris AhrensMay 10, 2022 May 10, 2022037 I moved into my first house on 3rd and G Street in Encinitas in the summer of 1970. The rent was $100 a month.
Columns WaterspotIn praise of ‘junk’ surfChris AhrensMay 3, 2022 May 3, 2022059 Even after I had lived in North County for decades, I would often show up, surfboard in hand, just as the wind turned.
Columns WaterspotSurf community gathers to honor TakayamaChris AhrensApril 26, 2022 April 26, 202201462 It seemed that three quarters of surf history was in one room on April 24 to celebrate Donald Moke Takayama.
Columns WaterspotThe purest form of wave ridingChris AhrensApril 19, 2022 April 19, 2022069 Being good at bodysurfing, which I am not, requires timing, technique, and agility.
Columns WaterspotOld faithfulChris AhrensApril 12, 2022 April 12, 2022041 Thank you, Skip Frye, for the best surfboard I ever owned.
Columns WaterspotPaving the way to dirty waterChris AhrensApril 5, 2022 April 5, 2022069 As a young surfer, when it was pouring rain, the thinking was, “Hey, you’re getting wet anyway, why not go all the way?”
Columns WaterspotA storm surf memoryChris AhrensMarch 30, 2022 March 30, 2022093 That wave had more force behind it than anything I had ever experienced this side of Hawaii.
Columns WaterspotWhat cats have taught me about surfing and lifeChris AhrensMarch 22, 2022 March 22, 2022099 Before I ever shared a house with a cat, the thought of a water-phobic feline teaching a surfer anything seemed absurd.
Columns WaterspotDeath of a killerChris AhrensMarch 15, 2022 March 15, 202211393 Killer Dana is dead, but its legend continues as does, hopefully, the lessons of a place in time that we loved and lost, without a