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...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Cocoa Beach Surf Museum News For some visitors to Florida’s beaches and warm weather, the word “quiver” might be a long-distant thought of a chilly night up north. For surfers around the globe, a quiver is not a chill, but the group of surfboards they own. The size and length of the boards in a quiver can vary depending on the type of wave for which a particular board is intended. Then there are quivers that have grown into collections. Surfboard collecting has become more common... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Cocoa Beach Surf Museum You can see the image on any given day — a surfer with his toes on the nose, arms swept back, the rail of his board slicing through the face of the wave above the blue ocean surface. Onlookers in their beach chairs wonder in amazement: How does that board stay locked in the wave? Just beneath the surface, an unseen action is taking place. Like the horizontal stabilizer of an airplane that splits the air and keeps it centered, the fin steadies the board. Walking through... [Read more...]
By: Athena Sasso
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
On a beautiful weekend in June, CBSM put on the 8th Annual Waterman’s Challenge surf contest. Holiday Inn was the best break on the beach, according to various scouts, and that made the 84 contestants very happy. Contest director Matt Bellina ran a great event, and many volunteers pitched in to make the event run smoothly. From the first horn to the last trophy — with a Luau in the middle — it was a weekend to remember. Some came to the Waterman’s Challenge to surf with old friends... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
For nearly 60 years, the Cocoa Beach area has been a mecca of surfing along the East coast. The area’s famous wave riders, Catri, Savage and the Salicks, to name a few, have evolved into the likes of Holland, Slater and the Hobgoods. The longboards and the cruising style they evoked began to give way to the shorter, faster, deeper carving tri-fins and quads we see today. Even the contest scene has exploded with ESA, NSSA, and WQS. The very first East Coast surfing championship, known as the... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
What do you think of when you hear the word “art”? A stretched out canvas with some country landscape theme hanging on the living room wall? Or a still life lining the hallway? As I recall it, I’ve always loved to paint, but living in a world of instant gratification, I didn’t have an appreciation early on. It was something I just did. One afternoon during my grom years, my family walked by an old building in downtown Honolulu. The entire side of this three-story office... [Read more...]
By: Lani Mucha
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Build It and They Will Come With a three- to four-foot swell hitting Cocoa Beach, it was much easier to hit the surf than surf the internet, but the internet was calling me to see who wrote that famous quote, “Build it and they will come.” With no luck on the net, I just put that quote into surfing terms. The answer was simple, “Ron Jon.” I grew up in the Huntington/Newport Beach area of Southern California. As a grom, that “build it and they will come” slogan... [Read more...]
