It was probably the biggest coup ever pulled off by a Board Riders club anywhere in the world – hold a single fin contest that doubles as a reunion and then arrange for the Beach Boys to play the ...

I arrive at the Indonesian bengkel, or mechanic workshop, with a long list of repairs. Brighter front lights, new chain and front and rear sprockets. Plugging the oil leak where the tacho cable has ...

Catharina Duval de Navarre just wanted a wetsuit that she loved. After falling under surfing’s spell, she’d tried all the suits on the rack, but as a fashion designer she had a hunch she could do it ...

Many of us are eagerly following the travel updates to determine when we will be able to return to Bali. The distinctive scent of clove cigarettes, the tropical swelter and the sparkling lines of the ...

When I first met Larry Bertlemann 49 years ago he was still a teenager – only just – but he was already a phenomenon, cover boy (there were no cover girls, yet) on every major surf magazine around the ...

It seems being a once celebrated pro surfer does not guarantee you a safe and prosperous journey through life. The surfing world was shocked by reports earlier in the week that Hawaiian surfing legend ...

Monty Webber is a man with an incredible amount of fascinating layers. Each one a different element such as art, invention, philosophy, sport and Christianity, all of which make him who he is today.

I’m sitting just below where Ombak Warung used to be. The broken, unfinished stairs still open onto the same path down to the beach. Anas, who used to work at one of the warungs, now has a tiny stall ...

The Hoole/McCoy team had sent cinema audiences wild with the 1975/76 release of ‘Tubular Swells’, but with ‘Storm Riders’ they were gunning for even greater heights – like an opening scene featuring ...

The World Surf League has provisionally suspended a men’s Championship Tour competitor after receiving serious allegations concerning a private gathering in Tahiti in August. Published reports citing ...

My earliest memories of Richard Harvey revolve around the Brookvale surfboard industry and the various contests held on the Northern Beaches during the mid-late 60s. A gifted and stylish goofy-foot, ...

I caught up with Andrew Ross in a Fremantle café for a chat about how a Lorne born, Perth raised boy turned lawyer, investment banker, and corporate slave to the oil and gas industry, ended up being ...