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Sunset Roars for Women’s Finish

Saturday, November 28, Stephanie Gilmore clinched her third consecutive women’s world title in solid surf at Sunset Beach. The 21-year-old Australian won the ASP Women’s World Title on points; 17-year-old Hawaiian Carissa Moore won the day’s event.
Earlier in the week contest organizers put the event on hold, waiting for a 6-meter swell to subside. By [...]

Second to None

“The best surfers on the planet, surfing the best waves on the planet,” is how the DVD Second to None bills itself. That terse description is not only accurate, but emblematic of the aesthetic of Second to None.
There’s almost no dialog, no explanations, no interviews and spotty identification of the surfers and waves they’re riding. [...]

Artificial Reef Breeds Localism

After a decade of planning and 14 months of construction, Boscombe Reef near Bournemouth on England’s south coast, opened for business last week. It is one of only a handful of reefs in the world that were intentionally created for surfing.
In the few days since its official opening, the Boscombe Surf Reef has shown some [...]

Peru Surfing Travel Guide

This attractive 2002 guide to surfing Peru’s Pacific coast is comprehensive and well illustrated with over 300 photos.
Matias Guzman and Felix Bracco assembled this bi-lingual guidebook and it has a real local flavor. Spot descriptions are filled in with bits of Peruvian history,   regional tips and things to see and do away from the [...]

Life in the Food Chain

The Honolulu Advertiser reported Tuesday that Scott Henrich was resting comfortably after being bitten by a shark at Kalama Bowls.
The 54-year-old surfer was out for the dawn patrol at the popular Maui break about 300 yards from shore when the attack occurred.
The shark clamped onto the surfer’s leg. “I thought, ‘I gotta get him off [...]

Shrink

In a suitably Canadian fashion, Shrink is low-key about some pretty heavy surf. This short video is little more than promotion piece for Sepp and Raph Bruhwiler, but it is also a beautiful document about surfing Canada’s wild west, Vancouver Island. From the first scene — a water shot taken during a driving sleet storm [...]

Link Dump October 2009

Surfing and Sailing Links
Until we catch up with all the sites we’ve been bookmarking, this low-tech list of bookmarks will have to do.

AfricaSurfSites

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Le Surf au Maroc

Surfing in South Africa, Wavescape

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True Blue Travel – surf and adventure specialists

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Wave-Finder’s Central America

This compact guidebook (measuring less than 5 X 3.5 inches) provides detailed information on the better known spots in Central America. It covers Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in clear, well-written prose.
This guide to Central America is part of a series produced by the London-based Wavefinder. Most of the Wavefinder guides share [...]

Young Guns 3

Quiksilver rounds up the latest batch of team surfers for this promotional video. Presumably following the formula of Young Guns 1 and YG2 (haven’t seen them, so I couldn’t tell you) Quik packs the young reps off to locations like G-Land, West Oz and Whale Beach to show off the latest moves in waves ranging [...]

Stylemasters

Greg Weaver and Spyder Wills were two of the premier surf filmmakers in the 1970s.  The duo was responsible for some of the landmark works in the surf movie genre. Weaver and Wills shot The Forgotten Island of Santosha, Pacific Vibrations and Big Wednesday.
Greg Weaver started surfing in Southern California in the 1960s. Spyder Wills [...]