Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Leah Dawson New exhibit opens at CBSM By Lani Mucha On a July Saturday morning just south of Lori Wilson Park, head-high sets made their way onto the shore, and on this stretch of beach, several dozen women had the local sand bar all to themselves. The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s Women’s Surfing Social was just one of the activities in a full weekend opening the new exhibit, “Florida Women of the Waves.” The weekend had begun the previous evening with a full house at the Cocoa... [Read more...]
Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun • Lani Mucha • Reports of the first swell of the season got me up at sunrise. Standing there at the Johnson Street crossover, I could see three silhouettes bobbing in the surf. You can find the same three local girls most mornings, in the same spot, sharing a good time catching waves. I’ve always felt a better vibe out in the lineup when women were out surfing. They seemed to make us guys forget about the mano-a-mano battles for waves, if even for a moment. But... [Read more...]
Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Paipo expression session … progression … at CBSM’s Waterman’s Challenge • Lani Mucha • “But a diversion the most common is upon the Water, where there is a very great Sea, and surf breaking on the Shore. The Men sometimes 20 or 30 go without the Swell of the Surf, & lay themselves flat upon an oval piece of plank about their size and breadth, they keep their legs close on top of it, & their arms are us’d to guide the plank, they wait the time for the greatest... [Read more...]
Athena Sasso
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Cocoa Beach Surf Museum News Spring at last! • Athena Sasso • Spring ushered in the weather we’d pined for, the promise of school ending and the busiest part of the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s year. On Easter weekend, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum brought paddlers a memorable day at the Florida State Paddleboard Championships, an event at Ron Jon’s 46th Easter Surfing Festival. That evening, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum opened its new exhibit, “Dick Catri: the Contests, the Teams,... [Read more...]
Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
COCOA BEACH SURF MUSEUM NEWS King and Queen of the Beach By Lani Mucha When the waves are lacking, I find myself looking for old surf videos on various video hosting sites. I happened upon “Ride the Wild Surf,” a title that didn’t sound like it came from some slick modern day marketing company. With a simple click of the mouse, up popped Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. During the 1960s, Annette and Frankie were the King and Queen of the surf movie genre. These surf movies... [Read more...]
By Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Looking Back to Find the New By Lani Mucha It’s been 40 years since man set foot on the moon, and we still have a lot to discover about our orbiting brother. A lunar mission in 2009 brought to our attention a possible ice layer just inches beneath the surface. There are recent earthbound discoveries that are just as intriguing. Jeff Clark rode Mavericks — now a renowned big wave spot in Northern California — for nearly 15 years by himself. It was later discovered that three surfers... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
At this time of year, the hardcore or desperately seeking can still be found in the lineup wearing wetsuits topped off with booties and gloves. The water temperature is hovering around the low 50s. For me, the lack of water time has less to do with the temperature than with the swells out of the north passing us by to the south. The sport of surfing has always been a great way to stay in shape, and dry land training or other types of on-the-water activities are a must during the winter. After a surf... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum sure has grown up this past year, and it’s a good time to reflect on how we arrived at this point and who helped us along the way. Some dedicated people missed a few surf sessions so we could enjoy the final outcome. Back in 1999, local surfer Sean O’Hare founded the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum as a way to preserve the area’s rich surfing heritage. This year, the surf community found out that we are stuck with him for life. The CBSM board named Sean President... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Throughout this past year, I’ve discussed with friends how the Internet has become intertwined with the Sport of Kings, surfing. The talk covered a wide variety of areas like surf forecasting, finding out the latest technical information and even watching live surf conditions half way around the world. It’s not the days I remember as a grom, when I had to wait a week to get back 35mm slides. You still had to mail them off to get them printed. With advances in technology, the old... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
More than one way to paddle By Lani Mucha It’s October and Hurricane Fred was the latest named storm to appear… and disappear just as quickly. Needless to say, waves have been scarce on both sides of the state of Florida. Like myself, I’m sure many of you have been looking for ways to stay out in the surf zone. So I found myself paddling a few times to fill in on the flat days, and three weeks ago, I tried stand up stand-up paddleboarding for the first time. I found there is... [Read more...]
