by The Editors on September 14, 2009
Surfer Patrick McNeese, 17, of Myrtle Beach, Florida died in a single car crash in the earlier hours of Sunday September 13, 2009, according to a story in The Sun News.
The car he was traveling in struck a ditch on U.S. 378, outside of Conway, hit a tree and then overturned several times, said Cpl. Paul Brouthers with the S.C. Highway Patrol. . . McNeese died at the scene of the crash, Brouthers said. The person traveling with McNeese was taken to Conway Medical Center with injuries.
Our thoughts are with Patrick’s family and friends.
[Link: The Sun News]
by The Editors on September 11, 2009
by The Editors on September 10, 2009
Michael Ray Bowe, 60, a homeless man and former noted East Coast surfer was pulled lifeless from the Lake Worth Inlet, Florida themorning of September 9, 2009, according to a story in the Palm Beach Post.
“Mike Bowe was a very good hot dogger. He was considered one of the top five local surfers in the ’60s,” said Fred Salmon, head of the Palm Beach County Surfing History Project. . . The U.S. Coast Guard found 60-year-old Michael Ray Bowe near Peanut Island after local boaters called authorities. . . Growing up in the 1960s, Bowe surfed on a longboard around Riviera Beach, Salmon said. He competed and won surfing events up and down the East Coast. But Salmon said Bowe’s life took a turn after he got into a car accident on Interstate 95, and he had struggled with drugs and alcohol for the rest of his life after it.
Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
[Link: Palm Beach Post]
by The Editors on September 10, 2009
George Breen, the pilot of a Piper Super Cub, was helping researchers spot Great White sharks off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts when he saw one shark headed for a diver who had just jumped off a research ship in the water. He was able to radio the boat and they pulled the diver out just in time, according to a story in the Boston Globe.
Shortly afterward, Breen said, he watched another shark dart toward a man surfing in the waters off Orleans. . . . He said the surfer, who probably never saw the submerged fish, walked ashore as the shark got within about 100 yards of him. . . . “All I can say is I think he’s just one lucky dude,’’ Breen said. “He was pointed right at the surfer.’’
Seems like the sharks are getting hungry lately.
[Link: Boston Globe]
by The Editors on September 9, 2009
Okay, at this point, we’re just throwing all the movie premieres in here even though these Billabong events are so jam-packed popular that it’s almost pointless to even try to get in, we’re still going to mention that the World Premiere of Still Filthy is going down at 9 PM on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at the Hard Rock Hotel. That’s tomorrow night.
Hard Rock Hotel 207 Fifth Ave. San Diego, CA.
[Link: Billabong]
by The Editors on September 9, 2009
Hirofumi Matsumoto, an employee of the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the Mariana Island of Saipan is still missing after he and a friend got caught in a strong current that reportedly pulled them outside the reef where they were surfing last Sunday (September 6, 2009). The friend was able to paddle back in, however Matsumoto did not make it, according to a story in the Saipan Tribune.
On Tuesday Boyet Centeno found Matsumoto’s rental surfboard floating near shore.
Centeno told police he was fishing in the area when he saw the surfboard wash up on the beach. After several minutes, when nobody claimed the surfboard, he took it home. . . Centeno later read in the newspapers about the missing surfer so he informed his boss, Taylor, about the surfboard he found.
While search crews are still working it has now become a “search and recovery” mission, according to the story.
[Link: Saipan Tribune]
by The Editors on September 7, 2009
Jeff Clark announced that he would no longer be working with Maverick’s Surf Ventures on his blog on June 26, 2009. Now, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bruce Jenkins reminds everyone that Jeff is still gone.
The Maverick’s big-wave contest is moving forward as a democracy, without Jeff Clark. Everything is in place but the legendary surfer’s blessing, in the wake of a tempestuous summer behind the scenes.
Organizers have announced that this year the ultimate decision and whether to hold the contest or not will be left up to the surfers themselves. Though Clark has been officially invited to be the 25th surfer in this year’s event, he’s still not happy about the way things have turned out.
“I’ve tried to hold my tongue,” he said, quietly. “But it’s just wrong. Surfing is a way of life; it’s a spirit. To have a contest run by people who don’t understand the sport – it’s just not cool. That’s really all I’d like to say right now.”
We hear you, Jeff.
[Link: San Francisco Chronicle]
by The Editors on September 4, 2009
After reading retail and brand specialist Bertrand Pellegrin’s (pictured right) new book Branding the Man: Why Men are the Next Frontier in Frashion Retail, SF Gate men’s fashion writer Aaron Britt went out with the man himeself to find San Francisco best men’s shopping environment. Their favorite: Mollusk Surf Shop at 4500 Irving St.
The large, open space felt immediately authentic, charmingly quirky and instantly right. The breadth of merchandise, sunny, smart and ineffably Californian aesthetic made you want to flop down on one of the couches to peruse a book of photographs or sneak into one of the hidden gallery spaces to check out the preponderance of art displayed. Owner John McCambridge did much of the design himself, and the homespun, design-school-meets-driftwood-collector vibe is altogether enchanting. . . Pellegrin called it one of the best new retail environments he’d seen in the Bay Area in years. “For a fraction of the cost most retailers spend on interior design,” he said, “Mollusk not only communicates its story but offers an environment that somehow doesn’t even feel like a store. It’s a state of mind. . . “I went back and a surfer walked in with his board, barefoot, wet and sandy and no one batted an eye. Now that’s authentic.”
Guess as a retailer you can’t really get a better review that this. Then again, if someone like Bertrand Pellegrin like’s your shop you have to wonder a little, don’t you?
[Link: SF Gate]
by The Editors on September 4, 2009
Blogger and former Surfline Power Ranker Lewis Samuels appears to be throwing in the towel on what he called The Post Surf Project. In a post titled Epilouge he broke it down like this.
I am not Lewis Samuels. . . That ended long ago, amidst the pixels and fuckery, clammy clickthroughs, custard pudding bastards, vitriolic comments, tags, tapioca fuckwits and strewn code. A writer does not write the truth about themselves. They leverage words to obscure things. They write the truth about other people, and leave themselves out of it. . . The surf industry is not surfing. My brief forays into the dark, sickly heart of the matter have reminded me of that. Over the course of the last nine months on PostSurf, I’ve simply tried to remind others of this fact. The PostSurf story has proven my point.
We’re not really sure what any of this means exactly, and were not sure that we’re going to miss it, as great as it sometimes was. We’re guessing there is a little more to this story. If you know it, let us know.
[Link: Post Surf]
by The Editors on September 3, 2009
Surfer Patrick McNeese, 17, of Myrtle Beach, Florida died in a single car crash in the earlier hours of Sunday September 13, 2009, according to a story in The Sun News.
