Vintage boards and the hammer blow of commerce
The vintage board market was always fuelled by nostalgia, yet the lure of big dollars has attracted collectors with a different motivation.
The vintage board market was always fuelled by nostalgia, yet the lure of big dollars has attracted collectors with a different motivation.
Bruce Irons cops a wildcard into the competition dedicated to his brother.
Whip employs his drop-shouldered, casual tube stance through five minutes of knee-deep pits, almost all of it filmed near his South Coast home.
Wade Carmichael won the Hawaiian Pro and catapulted from 59th to 13th on the World Surf League Qualifying Series ratings.
In May 1980 three Sydney surfers - cousins Chris Goodnow and Tony Fitzpatrick, and their friend Scott Wakefield - became arguably the first surfers to visit the Mentawais. Among their discoveries was a wave that's now considered one of the world's best, Macaronis....Read the full feature 48
J'Bay returns despite the men in the grey suits and North Point becomes a back up venue for the Margs Pro.