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.

Issue 32.6. features:

On the cover: Eurico Romaguera, redirecting his 9'9" Gato Heroi “Killer” off the top of a Moroccan runner. “The cat does not offer services,” wrote William S. Burroughs, a former Tangier International Zone denizen. “The cat offers itself.” Photograph by Simon Fitz.

Further down the line, we check in with an alt-shaper designing in the extremes, view the work of a ’70s photo duo, critique a modern French impressionist logger, swot how a shaper and surfer are reinvigorating a bypassed theory, cruise with a zeitgeist surf auteur, survey an absolutely no-go Pacific island, and more.

ESSAY: SURFING IS A JOKE
How the standard session mirrors the structure of a stand-up comedy set.

INTERVIEW: HOW TO REDUCE YOUR SHARK RISK TO ZERO
Experienced shark researchers Scot Anderson and Paul Kanive on the known and unknown about the ocean’s apex predator.