Two surfers were rescued from rough waters at The Hook off the intersection of East Cliff Drive and 41st Avenue on Wednesday morning, one of whom was hospitalized.
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This week in Santa Cruz County business: Report finds surfing contributes $194M to local economy but faces uncertain future; wineries still feeling CZU effects
A study spearheaded by Save the Waves Coalition and Black Surf Santa Cruz details surfing’s big local economic impact and outlines major threats from climate change, Jessica M. Pasko reports in her weekly look at Santa Cruz County business.
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Chairman of the (surf) board: Doug Haut’s wild ride through 60 years of surfing
No full story of Santa Cruz’s surfing history can be written without mention of Doug Haut, the longtime surfer who became one of the industry’s most well-known and respected surfboard shapers. His influence on how surfers interact with their waves and on the many shapers who followed in his wake is incalculable.
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At 17, Soquel High senior is taking on the ‘Mount Everest of paddling’ across Hawaii’s channel of bones
Ryder Walding, 17, will compete in the prone paddling world championships this Sunday. After a year of intense training, he aims to conquer one of the sport’s most grueling races: a 32-mile paddle from Molokai to Oahu in Hawaii.
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New ‘Princes’ exhibit at MAH embraces the whole of Santa Cruz’s history of surfing
A new exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History brings back a popular show from 2015 about the three Hawaiian princes who first brought surfing to Santa Cruz. But, with the addition of a look back at the surf shops of the 1960s, the exhibit also includes the whole of Santa Cruz’s deep association with surfing.
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Famed Steinbeck boat lives on in guitar and surfboard made of vessel’s reclaimed wood
Wood from the Western Flyer, the boat John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts chartered for a 1940 trip to the Sea of Cortez, is now a guitar and a surfboard made in a collaboration between Santa Cruz Guitar Company and Ventana Surfboards.
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LogJam! vintage surf contest returns to Pleasure Point
The Big Stick Surfing Association’s LogJam!, the longest-running vintage longboard surfing contest in the world, brought 120 competitors, ranging in age from 7 to over 70, to Pleasure Point over the weekend. All rode boards shaped before 1969.
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Logjam! vintage board event brings surfers and international acclaim to Pleasure Point
Logjam!, the world’s longest running vintage longboard event, is back. The surf contest will be at Pleasure Point Beach in Santa Cruz on April 26 and 27 this year.
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SwellCycle, creator of sustainable surfboard tech, nets new funding to expand to more industries
With an injection of $1 million, the Westside’s SwellCycle aims to pivot from a focus on selling boards directly to consumers to instead working with surfboard shapers and licensing its technology to “micro-factories” to produce the surfboards.
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The Surf Whisperer: Mark Sponsler’s forecasts have earned a devoted following among big-wave surfers
Mark Sponsler has gained cult status among big-wave surfers thanks to his ability to time a wave down to the minute and predict its height to within inches. The retired engineer’s website, Stormsurf, combines meteorological science with custom software to forecast exactly when the next monster wave will hit Steamer Lane.