MAGAZINE

More book than magazine. A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is a vivid, authoritative, and independent document that delivers purist surf energy in each bimonthly edition.

What is happening in edition 32.1?

On the cover:
Shaun Manners, achieving low orbit somewhere in the Australian desert. “I love getting down to the dez,” says photographer Josh Tabone. “It’s cold. It’s raw. It’s a little bit eerie, and it kind of sorts the men from the boys.”

Other glide paths inside include one woman’s inexplicable draw to the world’s deadliest wave, trafficking contraband via foam and fiberglass, the collision of aerospace and surf culture in a champion-breeding town, a freewheeling French Caribbean export, high-horsepower fabrications, and a low-brow artist’s big-wave motif.

ESSAY: SANDÍAS Y CORRIDAS DE TOROS. From the bullfights to the Tijuana jail.

INTERVIEW: MRS. PIPELINE. Moana Jones Wong on being crippling shy while excelling at the world’s most examined wave, lineup politics, her DIY approach, and growing up on the North Shore.

BOARDS OF INFAMY: The golden era of surfboard smuggling was brief, coinciding with what many consider to be the definitive American decade.