VIA – THE COAST NEWS By staff May 28, 2014 • 171 views • 0 comments DEL MAR — Longtime surfboard craftsman Roger Hinds won the Icons of Foam Tribute to the Masters shaping competition May 18, honoring Ben Aipa. Six shapers were tasked with replicating a classic Aipa Sting. The board was made … Continue reading Surfboard shape-off goes to Hind – #art #design #surf
VIA – KPBS Airs Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 8:30 p.m. & Saturday, May 10 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV Credit: Courtesy of Tim Mantoani Photography Above: Jeff McCallum, surfboard shaper Tuesday, May 6, 2014 SNAPSHOT is a half-hour magazine-style show that takes the KPBS viewer on a journey around the San Diego region, on … Continue reading SNAPSHOT: #Surfboard Shaper – Jeff McCallum – #Photography #surf
VIA – OC REGISTER t about 5 p.m. Friday, hundreds of surfers and rowers gathered around a Hobie Cat catamaran off the shore of Doheny State Beach to celebrate the life of surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer Hobie Alter. BRUCE CHAMBERS, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY LAYLAN CONNELLY / STAFF WRITER Published: April 18, 2014 Updated: … Continue reading Hundreds take to water in tribute to surfing icon Hobie Alter – #aloha #surf #oc
VIA – KTVU Posted: 12:23 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2014 Teen surfer hailed as hero in Ocean Beach rescue KTVU and Wires SAN FRANCISCO — As crews continue to search Thursday for a 14-year-old boy who was swept out to sea at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, a 17-year-old surfer was being hailed as a hero … Continue reading 17 Year Old Surfer Saves Two at Ocean Beach #Surf #SF #SanFrancisco #aloha
RIP to a man I personally admired so very much… Surfboard, sailboat innovator ‘Hobie’ Alter dies AP 12:24 a.m. EDT March 31, 2014 PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — Hobart “Hobie” Alter, who helped popularize surfing and sailing with the development of the foam surfboard and the “Hobie Cat” sailboat, has died. He was 80. Alter … Continue reading Surfing Pioneer & Legend Hobie Alter Passes Away At 80 Years Old…#Surf #Aloha #California #History
VIA – DAILY PILOT A bodyboarder catches a wave at The Wedge in Newport Beach in March. (KEVIN CHANG / Daily Pilot / March 31, 2012) Decision by Newport’s beaches commission comes after much emotional public comment and ongoing tensions between board users and other wave chasers. By Emily FoxhallFebruary 4, 2014 | … Continue reading Rules for surfers are unchanged – #Surf #OC
I hate California politics, can’t get an aesthetic art piece up in public but you can piss away money on totally worthless bs without thinking twice… VIA – UT SAN DIEGO Surfing Madonna loses round in Sacramento Written by Michael Gardner 10:44 a.m., April 24, 2012 Updated 6:13 p.m. Sacramento — The Surfing Madonna apparently … Continue reading Surfing Madonna loses round in Sacramento
VIA – SANTA CRUZ PATCH 2012 Mavericks Invitational Festival Goes Big and Grinds Out Hunger Saturday was the inaugural festival to award the gladiator surfers that ride Mavericks. Action Sports Wire By Danny Keith 3:36 pm Thanks to the relationship with The Go Big Project, Grind Out Hunger had the opportunity to participate in … Continue reading 2012 Mavericks Invitational Festival Goes Big and Grinds Out Hunger
VIA – U T SAN DIEGO NEARLY 2,000 PUT ON THEIR KOOK FOR FUND RUN Written by Caroline Dipping 12:01 a.m., Feb. 6, 2012 Cardiff They came in Spandex, feathery boas, wigs and Asics. For the nearly 2,000 runners and walkers warming up in the Moonlight State Beach parking lot Sunday morning, the inaugural … Continue reading NEARLY 2,000 PUT ON THEIR (CARDIFF) KOOK FOR FUND RUN