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A Dane Peterson shot of Kelia Moniz in the Mentawai that graced our cover eight years ago (Vol 16 #2) - it still shimmers.

Where’s the Surf? Find swell direction with Wave Science - California Surf Museum Surf forecasting and how waves are made.

"Life’s Swell" when you’re surfing O'side! 🏄‍♀️ In honor of California Surfing Day on September 20th, we invite you to catch a wave in a photo or selfie and tag
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*BONUS* Pick up this year's limited edition California Surfing Day T-shirt at the CA Welcome Center! ALL proceeds benefit our very own 🤙

Current Exhibits at the California Surf Museum
Expanded Timeline of Surfboards! 👇
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STOP BY AND SEE US AND OUR NEW CURRENT EXHIBITS!
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https://surfmuseum.org/current-exhibits/expanded-timeline-of-surfboards/

The California Surf Museum was founded in 1986 and has been in operation for three decades serving tens of thousands of annual visitors from over 40 nations around the globe. With a permanent collection which chronicles the history of surfboards and wave-riding, the museum also offers many revolving exhibits each year. In its current museum-quality space, it has acquired a rare set of archives and collections gathered over more than 30 years, comprising one of the world’s richest troves of surfing history. 🤙 -
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🌊 #2020 ⚓️ 🌊

Interview: Carl Herrman - California Surf Museum Carl Herrman was born in 1939 in Freeport, New York, and attended Massapequa High School, where he lettered in football and wrestling. A pound-for-pound fit athlete, he was thus in great shape when he was introduced to surfing as a teen. He became a lifeguard at Tobay Beach and was able to surf most...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Buffalo Keaulana
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One of Hawaii's most naturally-talented surfer.
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Richard “Buffalo” Keaulana, patriarchal Hawaiian surfer and lifesaver, is known as the Mayor of Makaha, especially considering that he’s given rise to a Westside dynasty that’s now in its third generation.
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Richard Keaulana was born in 1935 in Honolulu and his family settled in Makaha while he was still a young boy. He learned to surf in the gentle rollers off Waikiki, eventually graduating to the level of “beach boy” during the 1950s.
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Dubbed “Buffalo” by friends due to a large head covered in copious amounts hair, he was considered one of Hawaii’s most naturally-talented surfers. His smooth style, switch-stance skills and nose for the pocket made him an annual favorite at the Makaha International contest, an event he won in 1960. In fact, Keaulana captured six top-four finishes in the contest between 1957 and 1965. Built with the sturdy frame of a Polynesian warrior, he was also considered by many at the time to be the world’s best bodysurfer.
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A consummate waterman, Keaulana was named Makaha’s lifeguard chief in 1969, a position he managed for the next two and a half decades. In 1972, local officials erected a statue in his honor in front of a library near Makaha. Buffalo’s Big Board Classic — a surf contest and beach party held at Makaha for over four decades — has become a community mainstay. Two of his six children have gone on to noteworthy careers in surfing: Brian, a world class waterman and big-wave surfer; and Rusty, a three-time world longboard champion (1993-95)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - John Van Hamersveld 🤙🎂✌️
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Over the course of his 50-year career, multidisciplinary pop artist John Van Hamersveld has created influential and instantly recognizable graphic design. Early in his career, he created the legendary Endless Summer poster 🤙 to advertise the 1966 film of the same name. Thus began a career in graphic design that found him immersed in the world of rock and roll as Art Director for Capitol Records Distribution Company. During the 1960s and 1970s he designed such iconic album covers as the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, The Grateful Dead Skeletons in the Closet, the Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street, and concert posters for artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Bob Dylan and many others.
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Era of Cool will include a selection of Van Hamersveld’s album covers, poster designs, drawings, mural designs, photography and paintings.

Bethany Hamilton short documentary by - This Iz My Story For more of Bethany's story check out - http://www.heartofasoulsurfer.com/ for other stories like Bethany's check out http://www.thisizmystory.com/ Want to j...

Happy Birthday 🎉 Joey Cabell’s - Life of Precision and Control. 🤙
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“Cool-handed regular footer from Honolulu, Hawaii; arguably the finest all-around surfer of the 60s; cofounder of the Chart House restaurant chain. “He’s Mr. Perfect” California surfer Mickey Munoz said of Cabell “Everything he does, he does well.” Cabell was born in 1938 and raised in Honolulu. He began surfing at age seven. By the late 50s he had studied the moves and countermoves of surfing competition as if it were chess, and won easily, unemotionally.
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After years of competition he spent two years in Colorado. In 1962 Cabell and partner Buzzy Bent opened the first Chart House restaurant in Aspen and it was an instant success. Branches soon appeared in Redondo Beach, Newport Beach, and Honolulu. Cabell created the Chart House ambience, selling the menu items, designing the wood paneled decor, and dressing the staff in brightly colored aloha shirts. The Chart House became a kind of surfing institution, as generations of Californian and Hawaiian surfers took jobs there as waiters and bartenders, as to free up daylight hours for surfing. Cabell sold his interest in the chain, but retained ownership of the Honolulu Chart House in the early 70s.
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In 1968, Cabell became one of the shortboard movement’s key figures, putting forth his “speed surfing” theory, wherein the surfer rides in a crouch with his feet and his knees together, seeking out the fastest line across the wave. Cabell riding a pointy 8’3” homemade board called the “White Ghost”, seemed to be riding faster than any surfer alive.
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“He is a leader”, Pipeline surfer Gerry Lopez said in 1970, by which time Cabell had grown a full Moses-like beard, “whose followers seldom realize they’re being led.” Cabell appeared in more than a dozen surf movies. He was named to Surf Guide magazine’s First All-American Surfing Team in 1963. In 1985, Surfer magazine named him as one of “25 Surfers Whose Surfing Changed the Sport”
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Cabell has been married twice and has three children. His oldest daughter, Raina, was married to 2000 world professional surfing champion Sunny Garcia.” -
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