My San Diego quiver
When I was a kid, most surfers owned only one surfboard....
Chris Ahrens
The Young Man and the Sea: A Windansea shark story
According to Windansea surfer Scot Cherry, “I was trolling off my [13-foot] board with my friend, Danny Thomas (Tiny Brain Thomas’s son). I like using...
Hungry surfers
Somehow, I never realized then that surfing on a full stomach was not a great idea....
The many lives of ‘Windansea’
Being a great wave and home to an elite fleet of surfers, Windansea is worthy of a full-color coffee table volume....
The return of sidewalk surfing?
Skateboarding, as many of you know, was once called “sidewalk surfing.” This was not a sport of its own, but a fun pastime for surfers...
Branding Mac Meda
Can you call a group of wackos who drove cars off cliffs and destroyed abandoned houses just for fun an organization?...
Not all heroes wear masks
"Pal” Al Nelson somehow avoided fame in spite of being one of our sport’s top surfers and board makers....
Work and other four-letter words
The tradeoff in my case is that physical poverty is traded for spiritual freedom....
Windansea: The story of the surf break and the characters who inhabit it
From the very first time I visited there in 1965, Windansea emoted a sense of joy and fear, in roughly equal parts....
The Bird and the Master
Mike Hynson was born to be famous. He had too many natural gifts not to be....
New spots near home
Once the rain has cleared for a few days, look for waves to form down current of any sand source....
Artificial reef in O’side a good start
Artificial reefs could be the answer to saving sand, providing structures for fish and making better waves for surfers....
If surfing’s not a sport, what is it?
Many use the term “lifestyle,” which seems accurate as far as it goes....
The reef solution
Upon close examination, sand replenishment is not a win-win. So, what to do?...
The artist Ekstrom
Famed pop artist Andy Warhol saw surfboards, especially those handcrafted by Carl Ekstrom, as works of fine art....
