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 women have played a much larger role in surfing than tempering the temperaments in the lineup. Of the 93 members of the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame, 14 members are women. Mimi Munro started it all back in the 1960s, winning several East Coast Surfing Championships, including a third place at the World Championship at the age of 14. You can still find Mimi surfing for fun or competing in the local area. And there there’s Frieda Zamba. While living in California as a grom, I remember hearing her name. Turns out, not only is she a four-time world surfing champion, but also from Florida. Lisa Anderson is another four-time world champion from the State of Florida. Lisa was the first sponsored rider for Quicksilver/Roxy surfwear and continues to work in the surf industry today. One of the newest inductees to the ECSHF is Cocoa Beach’s own Sharon Wolfe-Cranston, winner of four U.S. surfing championships spanning 12 years, in four different divisions –- and on three coasts.

Today, women are hitting the waves in ever larger numbers. At the 2009 Slater Brothers Invitational surf contest, which invites 48 of the best local and touring pros, Cocoa Beach local Lauren McLean was the first woman in the history of the contest to get an invite advancing to the semi-final round. There are too many up-and-comers to list, but they include Amy Nichols, Savannah Bradley, Nikki Viesins, Chelsea Gresham, Jasset Umbel, Michelle Au, and Hanna Claunch.

It appears the women at the forefront of surfing have left a great foundation for generations of surfer girls to come.

In July, The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum presents “Florida Women of the Waves,” an exhibit featuring Florida female surfers from the early 60s up to the newest up and comers in the sport. A weekend of activities starts July 23 with the surf movie “Dear & Yonder,” at the Cocoa Beach Library. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and organic popcorn will be served. Then on Saturday, July 24, it’s the Ladies’ Surfing Social, from 9 a.m. to noon, on the beach behind The International Palms Resort in Cocoa Beach. Expect a casual gathering of friends at the beach and maybe some surfing, too. All this is lead up to the Exhibit Opening on Saturday, July 24, from 7 to 10 p.m. at The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum. We’ll enjoy live music and light refreshments. The Museum is located at 4275 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach, inside the Ron Jon watersports building. The opening is free and open to the public.

The exhibit carries at its heart surfing from a woman’s perspective. In a first for CBSM, the exhibit and its peripheral events are being managed by a female curator team: Melody DeCarlo and Sharon Wolfe-Cranston. The exhibit includes numerous photographs, newsprint articles, event memorabilia, boards, and more. Biographies showcase the accomplishments, depth of experience, and influence women bring the sport, and art, of surfing, locally and across the globe

For more information about “Florida Women of the Waves,” as well as all the other great museum opportunities, please visit our website at www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org, or call Tony Sasso, (321) 258-8217. The Museum is located at 4275 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach, in the Ron Jon Watersports Building.

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 Swell that sets on Shore, & altogether push forward with their Arms to keep on its top, it sends them in with a most astonishing Velocity, & the great art is to guide the plank so as always to keep it in a proper direction on the top of the Swell, & as it alters its direction. If the Swell drives him close to the rocks before he is overtaken by its break, he is much praised.”

Those are words from the log book of Lt. James King, an officer aboard Captain Cook’s ship HMS Resolution, upon entering Kealakekua Bay in the Hawaiian Islands around 1779.

The use of the word “paipo” has evolved over the past 150 years. Its first spelling appeared as “paepo’o” meaning “night landing,” where spies would chose a rough night at sea to surf ashore in the dark and eavesdrop on activities. The literal Hawaiian translation was “ride a wave head first.” The 1950s brought about the modern era of paipo boarding. Hawaiian surfing legend Wally Froiseth coined the spelling phonetically. Having never seen the word “paepo’o” written, he spelled it the way it sounded when it made his decals, and the new spelling stuck.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum has a paipo board on display, I believe circa 1920. The first time I saw it, the shape reminded me of a modern day snowboard. It was one of the coolest items I’d ever seen there. Several years ago I saw an O’Hare paipo board shaped by local surfboard shaper Pat O’Hare. I’m hoping I get a chance to try it out next month at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s Waterman’s Challenge.

The Waterman’s Challenge, the contest with the best vibe around, started a non-competitive paipo wave riding division several years ago. The “Paipo Expression Session” as it’s been coined, was started in honor of the late local waterman Chris Harazda, a.k.a. Logjammer. Chris enjoyed everything on the water, and he and his wife, Jan, shared a passion for paipo boarding. Logjammer passed away in 2007, after a paipo boarding session in Jupiter, FL. The Paipo Expression Session is open for all wave riders, whether you’re used to body surfing, bodyboarding, paipo boarding or even standing up. The Waterman’s Challenge is a fundraising event for the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and will be held on June 5-6 at the International Palms Resort (formerly the Holiday Inn) south of Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach. Surfing heats will take place both on Saturday and Sunday. You can find an entry form at www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org. Sign up on June 4 at the International Palms Resort deck from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. or on Saturday, June 5, before the heats begin.

The Saturday evening Luau will feature live music, a Hula demonstration, a silent auction, and food and beverages from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The public is invited for all events.

The Museum’s current exhibition is “Dick Catri: The Contests, The Teams, The Pioneer.” And opening July 24 is “Florida Women of the Waves,” featuring Florida women surfers from the 1960s to the present. The full weekend opening will include opening party, a women’s surfer movie and women surfers’ social. CBSM is also gathering material for an exhibit about surfing during the Vietnam War. Let us know if you have an experience to share.

For more information about the Waterman’s Challenge and Luau or any of CBSM’s other activities and exhibits, please visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org or call 321-258-8217. The Museum is located at 4275 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach, in the Ron Jon Watersports Building.

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, the Pioneer.” Dick Catri himself was on hand to give perspective on the cache of photographs, boards and other memorabilia that comprise the exhibit. Many of his fellow East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame members attended to congratulate Dick for his indelible mark on East Coast surfing history. The exhibit will remain open through the summer.

On April 10, CBSM brought Mike DeTemple’s film “Picaresque” to the Cocoa Beach Public Library, the latest offering in CBSM’s ongoing film and lecture series. Then on April 17 and 18, CBSM was one of the many exhibitors at the well-attended 2010 Boards & Waves Expo in Cocoa.

Next up is CBSM’s potluck picnic at Picnic Tables on May 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Members and prospective members are invited to bring food and drink and enjoy music and a relaxing day at the beach. Pray for surf.

And on June 5 and 6, CBSM hosts its 9th Annual Waterman’s Challenge Surf Contest and Luau at the International Palms Resort (formerly Holiday Inn). The lineup includes the usual board categories, as well as bodyboarding, a paipo session, Real Retro, Rodeo, SUP and Pro Longboard Open. The Saturday evening Luau will offer live music, an authentic Hula dance exhibition and great spread of food and beverages.

Although spring is CBSM’s busiest season, its volunteers work throughout the year to preserve surfing history through exhibits, lectures, and archiving activities. All are welcome to attend volunteer meetings on the first Wednesday of each month at the museum, 4275 North Atlantic Ave. in the Ron Jon Watersports building. For more information, call (321) 258-2817, visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org, or catch us on Facebook.

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 wouldn’t seem real without a little Hawaiian culture thrown in, so entered the term “Big Kahuna.” The use of the term in reference to surfing can be traced back to the 1959 film “Gidget,” in which “The Big Kahuna,” played by Cliff Robertson, was the best surfer on the beach.

Three years ago, I was at a surf contest where they had a King and Queen division. At first glance, I had no idea what that entailed. Thoughts of Kahuna, or King of the Beach, ran through my head. The division was actually a water triathlon, where competitors had to complete an ocean swim, a beach run, and an ocean paddleboard course. This was truly much more than beach blanket bingo.

Surprisingly, the contemporary version of the King and Queen of the Beach can be found as far back as the 1920s, way before the western world knew of surfing. The automobile allowed more people to travel to the beach for the day, and in response to the increased bathers, local lifeguards from both private and public beaches soon began competitions on the beach exhibiting their water skills.

The lifeguard beach competitions grew so rapidly that it became a demonstration sport at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. The chair of that event was none other that the father of modern day surfing, Duke Kahanamoku.

These King and Queen ocean endurance events also take place here in Florida. The Florida State Paddleboard Championship in Cocoa Beach is one place to view this type of contest. The event consists of a half-mile ocean swim, a half-mile beach sprint and a half-mile ocean paddle, all completed without any break between the three legs of the race. Past winners include JP Atherholt for the “King of the Beach” and Cynthia Aguilar for the “Queen of the Beach.”

Not sure how JP’s or Cynthia’s singing voices compare with Annette’s and Frankie’s, but they will be out to defend their titles as “King and Queen of the Beach” on April 3, 2010, at the Florida State Paddleboard Championship. The event supports the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and will begin at 7 a.m. with the paddleboard races and conclude around 11 a.m. with the King of the Beach event.

Also coming up:

Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s Easter Extravaganza on Saturday, April 3, 2010, from 7-10 p.m., featuring the opening of a new exhibit — Dick Catri: the Contests, the Teams, the Pioneer. The evening will also feature food, drink and music. Admission is $25/person, free to museum members.

Then, on Saturday, April 10, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum presents “Picaresque, a Longboard Film” at the Cocoa Beach Library. The event is free and doors open at 6:30 p.m.

For more information on other Cocoa Beach Surf Museum news, check out our website at: www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org. The Museum is located at 1475 North Atlantic Ave. (A1A) in Cocoa Beach. They hold monthly volunteer meetings on the first Wednesday of each month.

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 and a dog named Mavericks surfed the area in 1961, even 15 years before Jeff Clark.

I’ve spent the last five years living in Cocoa Beach and discovering the history of the area I now call home. When I first heard the name Dick Catri, it didn’t ring a bell. Then, several years later, I met Dick Catri for the first time while setting up for the annual Ron Jon Easter Surf Festival, the contest Dick and his surfing partner John Griffin founded back in 1965.

It’s tough to have a serious conversation about surfing without Dick Catri’s name coming up. Several days ago, I was talking with my neighbor Skip Savage, who was inducted into the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame along with Dick in 1996. Skip recalled seeing the Hobie surf team, captained by Dick, surf at the pier many years ago. That surf team included the likes of local surfing legends Gary Propper, Mike Tabeling, and Mimi Munro, to name a few. From the Pier to Shark Pit, Dick Catri and the Hobie team lit up the waves with their soulful surfing.

The word “Legend” gets thrown around alot these days. As a true pioneer, Dick falls well within the parameters of legend. He runs the granddaddy of all east coast surf contests, the Cocoa Beach Surf Festival, has coached, and has worked with more champions than Carter has pills, and charged Hawaii’s outside pipe at double overhead before any of us knew where Hawaii was.

Dick Catri made his mark on the big waves in Hawaii and on Florida’s East Coast, and the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s newest exhibit, “Dick Catri: the Man, the Teams, the Contests,” will tell the story. The exhibit opens with our annual Easter Gala on April 3, 2010, from 7 to 10 p.m. Cost is $25; free to Museum Members. The public is welcome to enjoy the exhibit, as well as live music, food and special friends.

For more information, please visit our website at www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org or call 258-8217.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is located at 1475 North Atlantic Ave. (A1A) in Cocoa Beach. The Museum holds monthly volunteer meetings on the first Wednesday of each month. Join them!

After a surf session a couple of weeks ago, I ran into Dr. Lance Maki and his tandem surfing partner, Jacqueline Remrey. We talked about training and balance on a surfboard, especially with two people on the same board. Jacqueline brought out her new Indoflo board, the latest advancement in surfing-related exercise equipment. It uses an inflatable cushion as a balancing point versus the standard cylindrical rolling log.

An old Indo Board has been exhibited in the Kelly Slater display at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum, proving even surfing exercise equipment evolves and has a history. Back in the mid ’70s, Melbourne Beach local Hunter Joslin first developed the Indo Board. This was really an era when the technical aspects of surfing were beginning to be developed. These technical developments also included how the body worked in unison with the surfboard. I remember transverse abdominus and external oblique exercises as a grom. They were such big words. I didn’t know where to begin to develop them. The term “six-pack” came around, and then the “core” concept used nowadays. With each new term, came new exercise routines to help the surfer develop the physical side of the sport of surfing.

Yoga on the beach, though still popular, has given way to pilates and other types of resistance exercises. Former World Surfing Champion Tom Carroll trains using yoga. Professional surfer Taylor Knox uses core training exercises with an inflatable ball, a progression of the yoga movements into developing pilates movements. Advanced balancing techniques beyond the sagittal plane limitations of the original Indo Board can be used to enhance your ability to push the limits while surfing.

The continued advancements in surfboard design will also push the physical side of the sport of surfing. So new arenas of physical development will open up. The great thing about surfing is that you can surf any technical style your heart desires, chillin’ relaxed style or full-out aggro. Some things are for sure: winter is nearly over, the water is warming up, and lineups will soon be full again.

Start that surfing exercise program now, you just might create the newest rage. Not to mention, the hurricane swells are almost upon us.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is located at 1475 North Atlantic Ave. (A1A) in Cocoa Beach. Visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org or call 258-8217 to learn more. They hold monthly volunteer meeting on the first Wednesday of each Month. Join them!

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 Emeritus. The legendary Duke once said, “It’s a good thing.” Okay, I made that up, but it is a good thing for us as a surf community. At any local event, surfing or not, you can find Sean and his family helping support the cause.

Tony Sasso has been there nearly since the museum’s inception working with Sean. Tony serves as the executive director of the board. We recently had to share Tony with the rest of Florida as he was the area’s State Representative in Tallahassee. Tony is so intertwined in everything surf-museum related, you can find him in every nook and cranny. And his wife, Athena, keeps everyone updated with the latest information in the CBSM’s online newsletter, “Wave Lengths.”

Two of the museum’s most tireless volunteers are John and Marie Hughes, who were recipients of the East Coast Paddleboard Association’s inaugural Tom Blake Award in 2009. They run the Florida State Paddleboard Championship over the Easter holiday weekend and the Causeway-to-Causeway 22-mile paddleboard race in the fall. John was recently elected president of the board and Marie is membership and merchandise coordinator.

Bill Tweedie, our marketing director, brings needed funds from unlikely places, and along with Bill Yerkes, puts on the Annual Balsa Bill and Ocean Natural Paddleboard Challenge. Melody DeCarlo, the museum’s newest board member, is by far the board’s best surfer (sorry guys) and she’s ready to make every event run smoothly.

One of the biggest improvements this year has been catching up with the digital age. CBSM now has an awesome music and video system to provide our visitors with a great experience, and Jeff Cranston has developed a website to reach interested surfers across the world’s oceans. Jeff’s work has expanded our reach and brought the world’s surf communities to our fingertips.

So many people to thank for such a great year. Matt Bellina for directing the 2009 Waterman’s Challenge, CBSM’s biggest fundraiser and one of the best surf contests in the state. Shore-tip and Dr. Diana and Debbie Tweedie for all the photography. Regular and occasional contributors to the newsletter, including Tom Fucigna, John Hughes, Jim Dale, Doc Stewart, and Athena Sasso. Dave Miller, the Aquanuts, and the Banana River Band for all the music. Jim Dale for our new docent program. Sharon Wolfe-Cranston for the museum’s lecture series. Dennis Bennett for his work toward developing an archive program.

Mahalo to all the members and volunteers, so many that we can’t mention you all by name. It takes every one of you, and whether on the beach or at the museum, you’re all a part of this great surf community. We’re looking forward to another great year in 2010.
The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is located at 4275 N. Atlantic Ave. (in the Ron Jon Watersports building), Cocoa Beach. Contact them at 258-8217, or visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

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 pictures and film of yesterday are being reborn on today’s various internet video sites. This has become an important development in preserving surfing history and culture. No more are these treasures stored in some dingy basement, living only in our memories and unavailable as inspiration for our youth.

Last month at the opening of the “Big Board Show” exhibit at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum, a wooden Laird Hamilton big wave tow-in board was on exhibit. Later, I got on YouTube — one of many sites where you can view surfing videos uploaded by everyday people — and found that same tow-in board on a video segment. With a little more searching, I found Gary Propper, a standout Florida surfer from the early years of the sport, longboarding alongside the famous Cocoa Beach Pier. I even found some 1970s film of one of the best surfing spots on the East Coast: Sebastian Inlet. Maybe in time, some viewer will watch these videos and fill in the missing names to further document surfing history. (See a list of these links at the end of this article.)

Then there are the videographers out there now, busy documenting the current surfing culture with the latest in water-housing-encased cameras and HD-quality shore-based photography. Local grom Brain McEachern shot “Cocoa Beach Invasion” with some of his local friends, and it’s a who’s-who of future surfing stars like Tommy Evans, Sam Duggan, Ryan Smolka and Savannah Bradley. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski, also known as Dr. Diana, is also a constant figure on the beach as she shoots and documents the area’s growing surf culture.

Whether the film is old and dusty or has just been captured for the first time, we can use the new technologies and share our world.

This month, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will present one of the newest surf films to hit the screen, “BlueGreen: We Are All Connected,” directed by Ben Keller. Set to be shown at the Cocoa Beach Library on Thursday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m., the movie takes a surf-centric look at the human connection to the ocean and features the incredible surfing and stories of Keith Malloy, Layne Beachley, Robert August, Liz Clark, Sean Collins, Nachum Shifren and a whole slew of others.

Visit the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum to catch the “Big Board Show” now and learn more about our programs at our website.

Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is located at 4275 N. Atlantic Ave. (in the Ron Jon Watersports building), Cocoa Beach. Contact them at 258-8217, or visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

Video links:

“Laird Hamilton: The greatest big-wave surfer to have ever lived?”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Pw7vKtqpo

“1960’s Gary Propper, Cocoa Beach FL Hits the Pier”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJhyxMNW5LY

“Old 70’s Sebastian Inlet Surfing”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zgbbrXDf8k

“Hurricane Bill and Tropical Depression Danny Surf, East Coast Central Florida, August 2009, Diana Wehrell-Grabowski”
www.vimeo.com/6368328

Hurricane Bill and Tropical Depression Danny Surf, East Coast Central Florida Aug. 2009 from Diana Wehrell-Grabowski on Vimeo.

“‘Cocoa Beach Invasion,’ Brian McEachern”
www.vimeo.com/5158058

Cocoa Beach Invasion from Brian McEachern on Vimeo.

“BlueGreen: We Are All Connected” with movie trailer
http://surferspath.com/news/bluegreen-we-are-all-connected

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 a little difference between the prone kneeling style and the stand-up paddle style. It’s much easier to catch a wave with a stand-up paddleboard, but either requires endurance.

Last week at ”The Big Board Show” exhibit opening at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum, I ran into Wyatt Werneth, former Chief Lifeguard for Brevard County. He pointed up at the 18-foot paddleboard suspended from the ceiling. It’s the paddleboard on which he made his world-record ocean paddle in 2007 from Miami to Jacksonville, and which owner Tony Hernandez subsequently donated to the museum. I asked Wyatt why he paddled the 384 miles.

“I did it for the drowning victims,” he said.

The paddleboard is inscribed with these words: “The Sea is the Song of the Soul,” and it offered Wyatt a little healing also.

Earlier this year the CBSM had a stand-up paddleboard on display that also set records. This time it was Justin DeBree’s board, another Cocoa Beach local. Justin rode his stand-up board from Key Biscayne to St. Mary’s, GA to raise funds for the World Skin Cancer Foundation and to create an awareness of the effects of UV radiation.

Whether you paddle on your belly, your knees, or standing up, or do it for fun and exercise or to support a cause, paddleboarding is alive and well in the State of Florida.

On October 17, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will sponsor the Third Annual Causeway-to-Causeway Paddle Challenge. The C2C is a grueling 22-mile time challenge for all types of paddle craft. I paddled last year amidst everything from kayaks to paddleboards and even a few outrigger canoes.

The course starts on the Indian River at the 520 Causeway in Cocoa Village and runs all the way to Pineda Causeway and back. It’s one of the longest paddleboard races in the world. For more information: www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org/paddleboard/c2c09.htm.

Cocoa Beach Surf Museum
4275 North Atlantic Avenue
(Ron Jon Watersports Building)
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931

www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

321-258-8217

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 over the past decade, whether for the artistry of the shapes, the airbrush work, the history of a particular board or even the remembrance of a past youth.

Roy Scafidi of Oceansports World Surf Shop in South Cocoa Beach is one such collector. Roy was nice enough to spend an hour on a busy Hurricane Bill weekend to talk and show me his board collection. Where does one even start to become a serious collector? Roy, a surfer as a grom, fell into collecting sort of by accident.

“I was working construction when I was younger and the client didn’t have the hundred dollars to pay me, so he gave me a board,” Roy said.

That was just the start for Roy. His twice-a-year travels over the years to Oceanside, California, allowed him to pick up several boards and bring them back to Florida. His collection now numbers over 60 surfboards, dating from as early as the 1940s. There’s not enough space here to list them all, but a couple that stand out are a 1948 Tom Blake paddleboard and a 1957 Hobie Balsa shaped by Hobie Fletcher himself. That Hobie Balsa was at the end of the wooden surfboard era.

Maybe Roy’s most impressive find is a board that heralded the modern age of surfboard construction, when Hobie and Clark were experimenting with foam. Roy’s 1966 Hobie Easter was the culmination of that effort. Another in the collection is the Lari Jai, the first surfboard to use inlay fabric for artwork on surfboards. Roy’s collection covers names like Greg Noll, Hansen, Morey-Pope, Wardy, Loehr, Dewey Weber, Bing, Takayama & Nuuhiwa, Vardeman, and G & S. And those are just some of the longboards. The shortboards are also at the top of a who’s who list.

On September 19, 2009, The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will present, “The Board Show,” the best of Roy Scafidi’s astounding collection along with boards of other Central Florida collectors, including a Slater board and a Laird Hamilton tow-in board. The exhibit opening will run from 7 to 9 p.m. with live music by the Aquanauts.

Among exhibits currently on display at the museum are a Kelly Slater collection, “50 years of Ron Jon Surf Shop,” and a tribute to the Sebastian Inlet Pro surfing events over the years, which includes surfboards from the Hobgoods, Lisa Anderson and more.

Stop by and check it out. If you’re interested in enjoying the activities of the museum or the varied opportunities to volunteer, please visit our website for more information at www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org or call 258-8217.

Cocoa Beach Surf Museum
4275 North Atlantic Ave.
(Ron Jon Watersports Bldg.)
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931

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 the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum, I checked out the display of fins on exhibit and wondered at the variety.

Being an avid bodyboarder, I use a finless board with vacuum-tracked rails that suck the board into the face of the wave. So I wondered, what are the hatchet, fat boy, cutaway, keel, foil, wingnut, dolphin and finger, and where do they fit in the evolution of surfing?

Even though I hail from Hawaii, I wasn’t around during the infant days of the sport of surfing. It’s hard to imagine surfing on those huge “olo” boards without any fins.

As the sport developed into maneuvering on the waves, the surfboard was in need of something to control its direction. In the early 1930s, Tom Blake took the keel of a beached boat, cut off a chuck a foot long and 4 inches deep and attached it to the bottom of his surfboard. In time, he was able to maneuver the board around with ease and control.

The fin was born. And innovation commenced.

As a grom, I remember a surfer named Mark Richards making all the surfing magazines. He took the Bob Simmons twin-fin design and Steve Lis fish setup to find a radically new way to surf. Simon Anderson answered the call with his tri-fin or thruster fin placement to allow surfers to hold the edge on much bigger surf. Today you can find quad and even five-fin setups on surfboards.

The fin is one of the most important factors in how fast the sport of surfing has developed. Look around the corner to the next big thing: hydrofoil fins. I even found an Internet site about hydrofoils for bodyboards. Okay, I’m a kook, but not that much of one. I’ll just stick to my finless bodyboard.

See an exhibit of surfboard fins at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum until mid-September, and read more at: www.surfinghandbook.com/surfboard-fin-history.

On September 19, a new exhibit will open to the strains of live surf music by The Aquanuts, as well as food and beverages. “The Board Show” will exhibit surfboards spanning the entire history of East Coast surfing. Some very significant boards will be on loan to the museum from private collections. The full exhibit will run until late October, and the exhibit will continue with a smaller rotation of select boards through December.

Visit the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum at 4275 North Atlantic Ave. (A1A), in the Ron Jon Watersports Building. If you’re interested in volunteering at the museum or just enjoying our many activities, see www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org or call 321-258-8217.

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 who on any other good day in the water would be at their own local breaks. That would be reason enough. But at this contest, there’s always the draw of something new. Three years ago, it was the Real Retro. Two years ago, it was the first Stand Up Paddle surf contest on the East Coast. Last year, it was the Chris Harazda Memorial Paipo Expression Session. This year, the Rodeo, Body Board, tug-of-war, and sand castle contest. (In case you’ve never seen one-’a them there Rodeo things, it’s a 30-minute heat: 10 minutes on a 9’ or longer longboard, 10 minutes on a fish, and 10 minutes on a shortboard.)

Young, old, pros and newbies on every type of floater short of a bathtub launched into the fun waves, surfing on feet and bellies, propelling with leaning bodies and paddles. From the beach, it looked like a symphony orchestra — you know, the part where they’re tuning up?

There was enough surfing, paddling, hula dancing, sandcastle building, tugging, Hookie Lauing, music from the Aquanuts and Sam Miller, and barbeque to fill up a weekend. As I looked over the final registration list, I couldn’t figure out why Director Matt hadn’t alphabetized the entrants. Finally it hit me: it was alphabetical by first names. Well, that’s the kind of contest the Waterman’s Challenge is — familiar from the first wave.

Next up on the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum calendar is the Third Annual Balsa Bill and Island Attitude Paddle Challenge on August 8, with divisions for all ages and skill levels. Meanwhile, see two special exhibits running at the museum: “50 Years of Ron Jon Surf Shop” and “The Art of Surf Culture.”

Find out how to be a part of preserving surf history at a volunteer meeting. First Wednesdays, 7 p.m., at the museum in the Ron Jon Watersports Building. (No meeting in July.) For more information, call (321) 258-8271 or go to: www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

The very first East Coast surfing championship, known as the Easterns, found its start here before moving up to Hatteras. With the millennium behind us and the 21st Century upon us, one might wonder, what’s next?

Leave it to surfers to find an answer. Surfing a wave brings you back to the very essence of nature. The wave I found today with its wall, barrel, and shoulder, broke no differently than the very first wave on the Third Day.

The year 2002 brought a new surfing event to the area. The Waterman’s Challenge was created to raise funds for the local surf museum. Sean O’Hare, president and curator of the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum said, “The Waterman’s was created out of sheer necessity for the surf museum. I mean, what better way to raise money for a surf museum anyway than to hold a surf contest?”

The Waterman’s Challenge, now in its eighth year, has grown apace each year, yet works to keep a low-key vibe throughout the two-day event. Though the record books matter, it’s more about family, friends and having fun. Of the men’s division winner that first year, O’Hare said, “I’m pretty sure Dan Dunagan was the first one, but it’s been a few years, so I could be wrong. What the hey…let’s just say Dan won it regardless… He’s a nice guy.”

Many local surfing stars continue to surf the Waterman’s Challenge year after year. Future women’s pro Savannah Bradley competed in her first contest at the Waterman’s Challenge. Savannah said, “It was a lot of locals having fun together. I got second in the boys’ division.”

With the growth of this grassroots effort, many more surfing divisions have been added. Savannah no longer has to surf the boys’ division. The sixth annual event saw stand-up paddleboarding added to the roster. Last year began the annual “Chris Harazda Memorial Paipo Expression Session.” “Chris was a CBSM volunteer for years and he was into alternative ways of riding waves, so it was appropriate for us to have this event in his honor and it was very spiritual for me,” Sean said.

This year, new divisions like bodyboarding are set to break new ground, and a there’s a fun new surfing division called “Rodeo” for those with endurance and a sizeable quiver. The Rodeo event with consist of a 30-minute heat broken down into three 10-minute sections. The surfers will use three different boards — longboard, fish and shortboard — to determine the best all-around on a surfboard.

Another endurance event, “King and Queen of the Beach,” includes a paddleboard race, ocean swim and beach run.

This year’s festivities are not just for the surfers in the water. A sandcastle competition will be held as well as a tug-of-war contest. And on Saturday night during the two-day contest, a luau will feature live music, hula dancing, auctions and activities for the kids. Cocoa Beach Surf Museum Executive Director Tony Sasso said, “It’s about the groms getting excited, having fun. Last year, a family who had relocated to Merritt Island after evacuating New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina just happened on the Waterman’s Challenge and came to the luau that evening. It turns out Skip Williams, a local surfer with a big heart, met the family at the luau. Skip won a surfboard he bid on during the silent auction, and he turned around to the Katrina family seated next to his family and surprised their youngest son with the new surfboard. The young grom had wanted to learn to surf and now he had the means to try. It’s kind of the perfect example of the spirit of the contest.”

For more information about the Waterman’s Challenge and to sign up, go to www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org or call (321) 258-8217.

The 8th Annual Waterman’s Challenge will be held at the Cocoa Beach Holiday Inn Oceanfront, June 6-7. Pre-registration will be held June 5, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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 building had been painted with a seascape. I remember the huge whale and other sea creatures floating on the brick wall. (I later found out the artist was none other than Wyland himself.) Soon, I realized a stretched-out canvas was only one way to express oneself through art. I soon began cutting up Surfer magazines and making collages in all sorts of shapes and sizes. My parents weren’t into my painting the outside walls of the house.

When my teenage years were upon me, my interest in art waned, or so I thought. Then it was all about surfing. I realize looking back that my interest in art was still there — only the medium had changed again. It was now the surfboard. We used to talk about the shapes, sizes and colors that were cool. (“Graphics” hadn’t become a widely used word yet.) It became apparent that the surfboard was a functional piece of art we could have fun on. Surfboard shapers were our modern day sculptors.

A couple of decades later, I began to volunteer at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum. The first time I walked into the newly re-formed museum a three-panel black-and-white piece of art by Bruce Reynolds caught my eye. Actually I did a double take, for it was a painting of Duke Kahanamoku by Bruce that eerily resembled my dad in his later years. As I walked around, I began to notice the collections of surfboard wax and surfing toy games from the ’60s on display. They all had something that tied them together — the artwork on the packaging of these items. Even the Quiksilver shirt I was wearing that day with its now iconic logo is a form of art. It was clear to me that surf art is broader than paint and canvas. It has become part of our culture, in everyday items we use. Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?

The known origins of surf art go back to cave drawings of figures standing on waves and have continued to be connected to our daily way of life. This morning I sat on the beach for a few minutes. The small ankle-biters were rolling in, little six-inch barrels breaking upon the sand, glassy and unridden. For a moment, my mind took a snapshot of the little breaking wave and imagined it one hundred times larger. Now if I can only take that imagine and put it into art.

The Cocoa Beach area is full of talented artists, each expressing how they see beach life, the surf culture and the surf community. The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will be showing the works of many of these artists throughout the year. On May 9th, the museum’s latest exhibit will open, featuring local artist Bruce Reynolds’ mixed-media projects as well as other local artists. Enjoy live music by Matt Heweister, food and beverages and meet the artists. For more information on this and other exhibits visit our website, where you’ll also find information about how to become a member or how to volunteer for our docent program. After all, art can’t be done without a background. Be a part of it.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is located at 4275 N. Atlantic Ave. (A1A) in Cocoa Beach. Visit them online at: www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

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 was Jack’s Surfboards on the corner of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway, across from the pier in Huntington Beach. I can remember spending hours running my fingers through the racks of newly glassed surfboards like they were a deck of cards, wishing one day to have one of my very own. Instead, at the age of twelve, it was a used ding-patched single-fin Brewer for forty bucks at the Robert August shop next door, but a new world was opening up for me. I bought the latest mags to check out my surfing heroes and all the ads for gear I could put on a wish list. I remember, for some reason, a Ron Jon ad and always thought, why would a Florida surf shop advertise in a surfer mag in California? It was a small world for me as a grom.

In 1990, I was competing in my second year of the PSAA Surf Tour, now known as the WQS, when the Sebastian Inlet/PSAA surf contest brought me to Florida for the first time. It also made me understand the significance of that Ron Jon magazine ad so many years before. I had never seen a shop so big, so full of people. Growing up around Jack’s, I never considered the size of a surf shop. Not only was the era of mega surf shops here to stay, but also the growing surf communities around them.

Ron DiMenna first opened shop in 1959 along the shores of New Jersey and later, in 1963, opened the Cocoa Beach location. It helped establish Cocoa Beach as the Surf Capital of the East Coast, a place where surfers, beachgoers, and tourists from around the world could hang out and talk about their rad surf session or a day at the beach. Since moving here, I’ve come to know surfers young and old, heard the stories about when they were groms just like me back in the day at Jack’s. Over the years, I’ve learned that surfing isn’t just about a young boy riding a wave, but about the people, the business, the entire community influencing yet another grom to feel the rush of the sport of surfing.

In honor of Ron Jon’s 50th anniversary of helping build the surf community around the globe, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will open a new exhibit, “Celebrating 50 Years of Ron Jon,” on April 11, 2009. The items in the exhibit — on loan from Ron Jon Surf Shop as well as from the private collection of Ron and Lynne DiMenna — will showcase Ron Jon’s fifty years of history. The exhibit opens on April 11th from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum (Ron Jon Watersports Building, 1475 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach), and will include food, music by MD420 and the Aquanuts, and raffles of a surfboard and surf gear. The admission is $20, but free for Cocoa Beach Surf Museum members, just one of the benefits of museum membership.

For more information about The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and the benefits of membership, see www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org.

Sitting here this afternoon, checking out the surf forecast on the computer for the upcoming week, I found myself looking for other water activities to keep me occupied. (The winter surfing season here in Cocoa Beach has been anything but stellar.) Then I remembered an experience I had back in October of 2008. With no experience at paddleboarding, I borrowed a twelve-foot Bark paddleboard from a friend, with the intention of competing in a race on the Indian River Lagoon that was scheduled for later that month. I took the board out to the Cape Shores Marina in Cocoa Beach to try this new and growing sport. After about five minutes on the river, I was hit from behind by something enormous that lifted the paddleboard three feet into the air. I held on for dear life and, looking back, noticed a two-foot mound of water fifteen feet behind me. I wasn’t sure if it was a manatee, a gator, or a shark. What I did know was where the shore was and I quickly found myself out of the water. The next few days, my training on the paddleboard consisted of reading about techniques of the sport.

The following week, I took that scare and found myself back in the river paddling in the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s C2C 22-Mile Paddleboard Race. As I floated out at the starting line, I remembered reading that paddleboarding is the endurance king of all water sports. The horn sounded. Within a half-hour, the more experienced paddlers were so far ahead, I could no longer see them.

I was in for a struggle that day, but there were positives. It was a beautiful day on the river in Cocoa Beach, the only fins I saw were those belonging to dolphins, and the halfway point 11-mile marker was a welcomed relief. The experience gave me a deeper appreciation for all those who are active on the water on anything other than a surfboard.

A month later, I had the privilege to meet Justin Debree at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum for a Key to the City award ceremony. Justin, a Cocoa Beach resident, set a world record in June 2008, by paddleboarding 420 miles from Key Biscayne, FL, to St. Mary’s, GA. He paddled the whole distance without a support boat and carried all he would consume in a backpack. Justin made the trip to raise funds and awareness for the World Skin Cancer Foundation. The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is proud to display the paddleboard Justin used for this world-record paddle. It’s a lot larger than the twelve-foot Bark paddleboard I first used.

The CBSM sponsors several paddleboarding events throughout the year. The Florida State Paddleboard Championship will be held on Saturday, April 11, during the Ron Jon Easter Surf Festival. And in October, paddlers will enjoy the third annual C2C 22-Mile Paddleboard Race, the longest race for paddleboarders in the lower 48 states.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is open from 8 a.m. to sunset seven days a week with guided tours available. For more information, see www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

Another Year of History in the Making

As we’ve all come to learn, history can happen in the blink of an eye, or even take years to unfold. It’s no different in the world of surfing, as we saw with Florida’s very own CJ Hobgood, competing in this year’s Association of Surfing Professionals Men’s WCT event in Mundaka, Spain. Trailing, with less than a minute to go in the Finals, CJ dropped into the wave of the heat to pull out the victory.

Sometimes it takes longer. Nine-time World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater finally won his brothers’ charity surfing event here in Cocoa Beach: the third-annual Skippy and Sean Slater World Skin Cancer Surfing Invitational.

Duke Kahanamoku, the father of modern day Surfing said, “… every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.”  Okay, Florida isn’t exactly Hawaii, though we do have 76-degree water, but it’s the waves and the people that allow us to create our very own unique surfing history.

In August of 1925, Joseph E. Craig was hired by the City of Cocoa Beach to design the now famous Cocoa Beach Pier. History took its time — like waiting for a developing storm system moving west off the coast of Africa — and it wasn’t until some 40 years later, in 1962, that the pier was finally built, adding to the culture of the Surfing Capital of the East Coast. The area’s rich surfing tradition reaches across the decades. Today, as you read this, somewhere along its shoreline, surfing history is still being made, whether with large implications or merely personal moments.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is happy to be a part of it in 2009. The events we offer the Cocoa Beach surf community could inspire a new future world surfing champion or give us a story to tell over and over again. History is not only a part of the past, but a recollection of that moment when we were present — one with the world, surfing a wall of water, and sharing good times with friends. So this year, help us with a little history building. CBSM offers events, lectures, and movies to inspire you to be a part of the tradition of the Cocoa Beach surf community. A calendar of events appears below.

Just like the various swells the area beaches receive, our schedule is also flexible, so please check our website often for upcoming events or schedule changes at www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org. Some of the exciting lectures CBSM will offer this year include Hula dancing, a Balsa Bill Yerkes ukulele clinic, and a surf photography clinic. Movies include “Endless Summer” outdoors on the big screen, “Surfing for Life” and many more. Check out the surf contests listed below to plan your weekend of fun. This year for the first time, the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will also be sponsoring a Surf Art Festival for local area high school students.

CBSM has recently instituted a docent program, comprised of museum volunteers who give tours of the museum and assist in curation of the exhibits. If you have abilities or an interest in sharing the history of the Cocoa Beach surf community, please inquire about becoming  docent. We would be stoked to have you. For more information about our programs, visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org.

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is also available for events, get togethers, group tours and more. Please contact the CBSM Executive Director Tony Sasso at (321) 258-8217 or email him at surfscout71@aol.com

CBSM’s 2009 Calendar of Events

February 21: Pot Luck Movie “Surfing for Life” (bring a chair) at 7 p.m.

March, TBA: Ron Jon 50th Anniversary Exhibit and Opening

April 10-12: Easter Surf Contest; FL State Paddleboard Championships sponsored by CBSM

April, TBA: Lecture/Movie

May 9: Cocoa Beach High School Surf Art Exhibit Opening

June 5-7: 8th Annual Waterman’s Challenge Surf Contest and Luau

July, TBA: Life Rolls On – a Charity surfing event for paraplegics and quadriplegics

July, TBA: Lecture/Movie

August, TBA: Lecture/Movie

September, TBA: Lecture/Movie

October 17: C2C 22-Mile Paddleboard Race

November, TBA: Lecture/Movie

December, TBA: Cocoa Beach Christmas Parade CBSM Float

December, TBA: CBSM Holiday Party

If you’re like me, you’ve told yourself you’d surf more, worry less, and spend less money and more time with friends. The cool thing is, at the beginning of every year, we get to resolve anew and the screw-ups of the past get erased. You can knock out all of those resolutions at once by joining the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and volunteering for some of our fun activities. Whether you’re into surfboards, paddleboards, SUPs, mats, or beach chairs, you’ll find some old and new friends to enjoy and a cause worth your time and energy.

If you need it, here’s your personal invitation to a potluck, lecture, contest, or movie. Watch your digital newsletters and emails for upcoming chances to get better at keeping your resolutions.

See you in the water,

Tony

Executive Director, Cocoa Beach Surf Museum

www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org

Sjuggerud Donates Nollrider

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum recently had the good fortune to receive a valuable addition to its collection. Steve Sjuggerud of Fernandina Beach generously donated a 9′ 10″ Duke Kahanomoku East Coast Nollrider. These boards were made for a brief time in the mid-1960s at the Greg Noll factory. When the Duke died in 1967, Greg stopped building them, out of respect for the Duke. These boards are highly desire — on the “A List” for serious collectors — and the East Coast model is particularly rare.

Bruce Valluzzi was the team test rider for this model on Greg Noll’s prestigious surf team that included Jeff Hakman, Paul Strauch and Fred Hemmings. Our own Pat O’Hare made frequent trips to California to help out with shaping duties at the Noll factory and shaped many of the Nollriders, including the boards featured in the iconic advertisement displayed in leading surf magazines, which featured the Duke and team riders at Waimea Falls. Stop by the museum to see our latest acquisition and check out all our new exhibits.

C2C: Take 2

By John Hughes

Our second 22-mile Causeway-to-Causeway Paddle Challenge was an even bigger success this year. We had a larger turnout and a wider variety of paddlecraft than last year. The participants really stepped it up, with return paddlers beating last year’s time. Even the newcomers posted faster times than we had in 2007. We feasted on great Cuban food afterwards and everyone had a blast. Thanks to our sponsors: Mr. Cubano, Ocean Potion, Jobbeedu, Longdoggers and Commander Hotel of Ocean City, Maryland. A big thanks to all the volunteers from the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum who made this happen.

C2C Results

(Rank/Name/Time/Craft)

1/Matt Coiro/3:46:45/Epic 18′ Kayak
1/Linda Postma/3:50:51/OC-2
1/Jim McCrady/4:08:09/Surfboat
Andy Engle
2/Wyatt Werneth/5:03:39/Surfboat
Justin McVicker
1/JP Atherholt/4:20:04/Unlimited Paddleboard
2/Greg Schmidt/4:23:08/Unlimited Paddleboard
3/Lathem Kellum/4:37:46/Unlimited Paddleboard
4/Skip Maxwell/4:46:38/Unlimited Paddleboard
5/Robert Martini/5:02:36/Unlimited Paddleboard
6/Adam Compton/5:12:54/Unlimited Paddleboard
1/Cynthia Aguilar/5:40:56/12′ Stock Paddleboard
1/David Boudreau/5:48:12/14′ Paddleboard
1/Chip Bock/4:52:05/SUP – 19′ Unlimited
1/Gary Wise/5:04:24/SUP – 14′
2/Chris Cook/5:36:20/SUP – 14′
1/Lindsay Whittaker/5:32:07/SUP -12′
2/Dana Hart/5:45:48/SUP – 10′6″
1/Louis Posada/2:42:00/SUP – 11′6″
2/Justin Cook/2:49:00/SUP – 12′
3/Pauly Chambers/2:56:00/SUP – 12′
4/Ross Carter/3:08:00/SUP – 12′
1/Loni Mucha/2:56:00/12′ Stock Paddleboard
11+ Miles
Andy Scheid/DNF/SUP – 12′
Joe Serrado/DNF/SUP – 12

Join the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and help preserve surfing history. Members receive a quarterly newsletter and special invitations to museum events. New memberships include a museum T-shirt and member discounts.