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...general feeling was that it could .never happen here. Surfing, and the way of life it suggested, was something that was practiced only by the golden boys and girls of the West Coast and duly celebrated in B movies, featuring beer, broads and orgies. But last week, from Maine to Miami, beaches with a rolling surf were bristling with the sleek Fiberglas slabs. The staid old resort of Narragansett, R.I., has found itself inundated by board-bearing interlopers, who have discovered that the once Brahmin beach has just the right kind of waves. On Long Island, where 40 surfboards were...
...Surfing Safaris. Even landlocked youths strap their boards on top of their cars, take off on long surfing safaris to find just the right "beach break." Af Matunuck, R.I., one of New England's surfing Shangri-las, almost a third of the cars parked bumper to bumper along the oceanfront road sport out-of-state plates. Said one surf-farer, a Wethersfield, Conn., high school senior who is president of his town's surfing club: "We travel to a different place every weekend. Next week we'll probably go to East Orleans on Cape Cod" -135 miles...
...waves are generally smaller and less consistent. Last month, when 4,000 spectators gathered in Narragansett for the New England championships, the sea was so still a Coast Guard cutter had to ply back and forth to make it a contest. But Eastern addicts are still getting their surf legs and seem quite content with the three-and four-footers found along most of the coast. A few weekends ago, when the rollers at Narragansett rose to California size (six feet), not a surfer braved the waves. Explained one neophyte: "If you don't know what...
...past 65 years, the shark has long been considered the king of game fish. "Nothing compares to it," insists Sydney Businessman Peter Goadby. "It's wonderful to pit yourself against a creature so big and powerful, so perfectly designed for his position in life." In South Africa, where surf casters hook into 700-lb. sharks close to Durban's most popular bathing beaches, Electrician Cecil Jacobs, whose catch last year totaled 1,960 Ibs., exults: "It's fighting, fighting, fighting all the way." And in the U.S., where some 1,500,000 sharks were caught...
Extrapolating the style, Jan and Dean (the "Father of Falsetto"), deliberately mix the sounds of surf and drag races into their records until the ear strains to grasp the lyrics. Explains Jan: "If the kids can hear the words, they'll turn their radio down. We want them to turn it up. It sort of relieves a kid's anxieties if he can drown out his parents...