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Collector Club brings design history to San Clemente's Surf Ghetto. President Brian Davis leads 628 members at monthly board swaps. Vintage starts at 50 years, so 1975 and earlier count. Source: Picket Fence Media.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves.
Home waters, Mon Oct 26: surf 8 to 10 ft from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine, rip risk high, NE winds around 25 mph. High Surf Advisory until 8 AM Wednesday.
Source: National Weather Service, Jacksonville.
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In late 1962, only a handful of surfers rode in the Jacksonville area. In 1963, R. L. Williams built a pier at Sixth Avenue South with his own funds, and on July 9, 1964, Bruce Brown brought The Endless Summer.
Source: The Jaxson.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves. In the early 1960s, Western Australia had no board business, so Malibu boards came from Gordon Woods and Barry Bennett, and surfers built boards in backyards. Source: Surfing Down South. surfingdownsouth.com.au/2018…
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Gordie Duane learned to surf at Waikiki in 1950 and opened Gordie Surfboards in 1956. He became one of the first to set a wooden stringer into foam blanks.
Source: Last Wave Originals.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves. SHACC offers about 100 vintage boards to the public today in Laguna Beach, some rare, some ready to ride. Members 8:30 AM Pacific, general 9:00 AM Pacific. Source: Surfing Heritage and Culture Center. museums1.com/US/Laguna-Beach…
A 1963 Hobie Reverse D-fin, shaped by Mike Hynson for Butch Van Artsdalen, turned up in a barn. Blue Beach Blanket Bingo paint hid it. Stripped at the Haut shop, its stringer read: 'Butch Van Artsdalen's Personal Shaped by Hynson.'
Source: Surfline.
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The Endless Summer turns 60 with a perfect 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score. Bruce Brown shot it on $50,000 and followed Hynson and August in search of the perfect wave. Source: Men's Journal.
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Home waters, Sat Oct 24: surf 6 to 7 ft from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine, rip risk high, north winds 20 to 30 mph. Sunday builds to 8 to 10 ft.
Source: National Weather Service, Jacksonville.
weather.gov/beach/jax
Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves.
Alice Lemoigne won a record third women's title and Benoit Clemente his second men's title at the ISA World Longboard Championship. France claimed a fifth team title.
Source: International Surfing Association.
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Mexico's first wave pool began filling at Cabo Real in Cabo San Lucas. The four-acre basin takes about seven million gallons, with Endless Surf power and surfing hoped for by early December. Source: Surfer.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves. DSRT Surf soft-opened Sep. 26 in Palm Desert. A 5.5-acre lagoon by Desert Willow, with a full opening in November.
Source: Desert Sun.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves. Pradco acquired Kent Outdoors on Oct. 1, its first watersports deal. Kent, founded in 1959, holds HO Sports, Hyperlite, Bote, and Liquid Force.
Source: Shop Eat Surf Outdoor.
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About 400 leaders gathered in Virginia Beach in September 2026 for the largest Surf Park Summit yet. It launched the Surf Conservation Fund, and DSRT Surf took the Sustainability award.
Source: WavePoolMag.
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We saw the Sunshine Sea, the 1971 surf movie last night and it was amazing. Made by Greg MacGillivray (who was there last night) of @MacFreeFilms it was a travel style surf move shot in 35mm and intended for wide audiences. It was Art, funny, with great waves and great storytelling.
The slow motion surf sequences of David Nuuhiwa and Nat Young were incredible and should be seen and analyzed by all young surfers and coaches today.
MacGillivray should consider re-releasing it to theatres. It tells a wonderful and timeless story about surfing.
Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves. Doc Ball shot surfing from 1931 and published California Surfriders in 1946. LeRoy Grannis took up a camera in 1959 and shot the 1960s scene.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves.
Home waters, Mon Oct 19: surf 7 to 10 ft from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine, rip risk high, north winds 15 to 25 mph. Tuesday 6 to 9 ft.
Source: National Weather Service, Jacksonville.
weather.gov/beach/jax
Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves. In Sep 2006, vintage muscle cars lined Seaside, Oregon for the Muscle Beach Cruz, led by a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner restored by its college-age buyer.
Source: The Daily Illini.
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Beach Boys were named the No. 1 American band of all time in BBC Music's Classical Music ranking, ahead of the Eagles. Formed in Hawthorne in 1961 as The Pendletones.
Source: Parade.
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Dispatch from the Minister of Lost Waves.
Shaper Dale Velzy was honored with a bronze plaque, unveiled Aug 27, 2023. He opened his Manhattan Beach shop in 1950, called the first retail surf shop in the world.
Source: Daily Breeze.
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