Midget Farrelly's article on the Windansea Surf Club's recent visit to Australia ran in the December 10, 1967, issue of the Sydney Morning Herald. The American surfers had arrived in Sydney equipped with 9' 6" noseriders, only to find that the local surfers, with Farrelly and Bob McTavish leading the way, had recently begun riding smaller, lighter, more performance-oriented boards. This was the mo...
"Surfers Splash at Chilly Shore," Jon Clemen's report on the Polar Bear Surfing Meet in Ocean City, New Jersey, ran in the December 1966 issue of the Hackensack Record. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Despite the rays of a timid winter sun glinting across snow-covered Ocean City beach, it was a cold day to ride a wave’s crest to shore. But at the second annual Polar Bear Surfing ...
Nancy Mistral's one-page article on women's surfing in New Jersey was published in the Summer 1965 issue of Eastern Surf magazine. * * * The women's surfing contest at Point Pleasant Bench on April 17 developed into an unexpected surprise for all—giving encouragement to the timid novice and greatly increased respect for these former gremlins to the wiser and more accomplished men who were th...
Brian Gillogly's profile on Lynne Boyer ran in the March 1978 issue of SURFER. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Near the bottom of a thick Sunset Beach ledge, she engages the rail and sets a defiantly tight course. Long legs slightly bent and lean torso pitched well forward, she jets along a very straight, clean line until that point where the energy momentarily recedes; where the...
Drew Kampion's feature on the making of ABC-TV's Grajagan episode of American Sportsman, which aired in Spring of 1981, ran in the December 1980 issue of Surfing. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Some years ago, while traveling in the Indonesian archipelago, well-known Long Island pro surfer Ricky Rasmussen and a few others visited a long, perfect wave that wrapped along a jungle-...
Howard Gottlieb's feature on pro surfer Linda Davoli ran in the June 19, 1978, issue of the Press of Atlantic City. This version has been slightly edited. * * * She likes to party, and over the years she’s developed a reputation as a table-top dancer. But Linda Davoli would rather be balanced on a surfboard than a table. The 21-year-old Brigantine surfer admits that surfing is her life. As...
Go For It, produced by surf filmmaker Hal Jepsen and retired NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain, was released in 1976. "Action sports" was not yet the term of choice, but Go For It touched almost all the bases as it focused on surfing, skiing, climbing, skateboarding, climbing and hang-gliding. The idea was to produce an Endless Summer-like mainstream hit, but things did not work out that way. Here is a ...
"SKATEBOARD MEET ON TAP," Ventura County Star, Feb 13, 1975 The second annual Ventura Skateboarding Championships will be conducted Saturday and Sunday in Grant Park overlooking Downtown Ventura, beginning at 9 AM Saturday and 8 AM Sunday. Competition is scheduled to run all day on both days with finals on Sunday. Some 230 participants are expected to compete for titles in freestyle, slalom, and...
"Kelly Slater is an American Hero," one in a series of Stab magazine cartoon strips written by Derek Rielly and illustrated by Ben Brown, ran in the September 2005 issue. * * * ...
Derek Rielly's feature on the Drive-Thru series ran in the July 2005 issue of Stab magazine. This version has been slightly edited. * * * You surf? Oh, I get it, so you ride longboards, paint, play a beat-up acoustic guitar between sessions, enjoy photography, gallery openings, shooting Super-8 film and staring into exotic sunsets while your long hair billows in the wind. I don't do any of t...