by The Editors on May 7, 2008
Modesto, California’s Barefoot Wine, famous for making award-winning California wines, has teamed up with the Surfrider Foundation, to give someone the chance to take a break from their normal job and spend a week in San Clemente helping to keep beaches safe for barefeet. Barefoot Wine will foot the bill. It’s just one part of the Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project .
After spending our summer hosting beach cleanups, dune restorations and educational coastal tours with the Surfrider Foundation, we learned that members were contributing up to 20 hours a week on top of their professional day jobs,” said Jeremy Soine, Marketing Manager for Barefoot Wine. “The Surfrider Foundation is passionate about beach preservation, and we’re thrilled to provide the resources to help someone else work with them this summer.”
The big question is: can we drink wine while we work?
[Link: Barefoot Wine]
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by The Editors on May 7, 2008
Surfingodds.com “your premiere surf betting website” has the odds up for the Billabong Pro Teahuppo . And guess who is leading the charge? Kelly Slater at 4:1, followed by AI, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, and Bede Durbidge. For the big money, outside win there’s Taylor Knox at 81:1. Not that we’re promoting gambling or anything of the sort.
by The Editors on May 7, 2008
Volcom’s rising 15-year-old surf star Andrew Doheny is profiled in today’s LA Times .
Doheny is the No. 1 surfer for his age group in the nation based on winning the open juniors championship last July at the National Scholastic Surfing Assn. Nationals in San Clemente. He has won close to 90 NSSA competitions and has earned so many trophies that his parents had to put them in a storage locker because they ran out of room in their house.
Looks like homeschooling has it’s advantages at least in the short term, huh?
[Link: LA Times]
by The Editors on May 5, 2008
Chuck Menzel, the founder of Wetsand.com has sold the wave forecasting portion of his business to the Wasserman Media Group for an undisclosed sum, according to a Josh Hunter story on TransworldBusiness.com. He has, however, retained ownership of the Wetsand store front and commerce site.
It’s the creative side of it that we really wanted to maintain, and I’m still creatively in control of the site, as far as keeping it on track with content and credibility,” he says.
Menzel has been looking for buyers for his popular site for more than a year, and we’re guessing being a part of Sportnet (which also includes action sports sites: surfspot.com, motocross.com, 411vm.com, newschollers.com, skateboard.com and sk8site.com) is going to be a great fit. Especially, as surfspot.com continues to grow its traffic.
[Link: Transworld Business]
by The Editors on May 5, 2008
The body of John M. Wagner, 43, was found in the water about 20 miles south of Ventura yesterday.
Federal park rangers found the body of a missing surfer from San Diego on Friday, several hours after he had disappeared while surfing near Santa Cruz Island. . . A spokesman for the Coast Guard said friends of Wagner reported they had been surfing with him near Santa Cruz Island about 5 p.m., when he went underwater for unknown reasons.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on May 5, 2008
Andy Tompkins, the former show director of the Action Sports Retailer has moved over to a new job as show director at Interbike.
Lance Camisasca of Lifeboat Solutions (Interbike’s industry consultantancy), will continue to manage Interbike’s bicycle advocacy efforts and provide input and guidance to Tompkins and Joe Flynn on the strategic development of Interbike shows.
Since both shows are owned by Nielsen Business Media, it’s kind of like getting a new office.
[Link: Bike Biz]
by The Editors on May 2, 2008
According to Investerms :
Volcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLCM) shares are soaring more than 25% midday Thursday on practically five times trading volume after first quarter results and an analyst price target upgrade.
The California-based clothing and accessory maker that sells products under the brand Volcom has added more than $100 million in market capitalization after reporting a 70.4% increase in first quarter net income. Net income rose to $9.3 million, or 38 cents per share, from $5.5 million, or 22 cents per share, on a 58.5% increase in revenues. Even with this drastic sales growth, Volcom managed to increase gross profit slightly to 52.4% from 52%.
Sometimes we’re glad we don’t own Volcom stock, and other times (like today) we’re bummed.
[Link: Investerms]
by The Editors on May 1, 2008
According to a Marcus Sanders story on Surfline:
San Francisco surfer Adrian Ruiz, 26, was attacked and killed by a shark while surfing at Troncones in Mainland Mexico on Monday afternoon. . . According to local paper Despertar de la Costa, the shark bit him on the right thigh, left a 15-inch wound, and he died from blood loss. He was about 300 yards offshore when attacked, and the situation was aggravated by a lack of emergency services at the beach.
[Link: Surfline.com]
by The Editors on April 28, 2008
Following the Solana Beach shark attack in which a 66-year-old triathlete was killed, the sharks in Florida have been going off. Three bites in three days at New Smyrna Beach.
The latest attack happened Monday as David Alger, 18, was surfing south of the jetty. . . . The beach patrol said he stepped off his board and was bitten on his left foot. . . . Over the weekend, two other surfers were bitten in separate incidents.
[Link: CF News 13]
by The Editors on April 23, 2008
Remember Dale Webster? He’s the completely spun surfer from Northern California who was featured in Dana Brown’s Step into Liquid? Well, he’s still at it according to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Ballard.
Every day for the last 32 years, every single day, he has surfed. He heads out each morning in Bodega Bay, a blustery town on the northern California coast, and paddles into the 50° water, a worn-out 59-year-old in a worn-out wet suit. He’s caught waves during howling storms, while wracked by kidney stones and, once, within snapping distance of a Volvo-sized great white (“never paddled so hard in my life,” he says). He’s gone through 35-plus wet suits and as many surfboards, and he’s scraped off 45 pounds of surf wax, all of it preserved in a gooey, browning mound in his backyard. All that cold water has narrowed his ear canals, and his eyes are bloodshot and glassy, in need of surgery.
Having surfed 96 days straight once before in our lives we can say this: running streaks like that is enough to drive a man deeply, irrevocably crazy. We don’t care what anyone says, Dale Webster is crazy.
[Link: Sports Illustrated]
