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Mark McInnis On Losing His Life’s Work In A Wild Fire

[Earlier this year, we featured Mark McInnis’ portfolio in Vol. 258. Right now you can get both our 2020 print volumes alongside a limited edition t-shirt, beanie or mug as part of our range of Wavelength gift sets.] Mark McInnis…

By Luke Gartside

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The First ‘Real’ Surf At La Graviere, 1980

[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] By the end of the ’70s, the map of the surf world was still being drawn, with well-established scenes…

By Paul Evans

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On Reefs: Ben Skinner & The Bagpipe’s Sinkhole

[Welcome to ‘On Reefs’ a new series of stories exploring the hidden quirks and perils of reefs around the world through the personal experiences of those who know them in intimately.] Bagpipe, originally named for its likeness to the Banzai,…

By Luke Gartside

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Manera: A Unique Brand Story

How a mum & dad run family business from the French Mediterranean used 3D design, shunned e-commerce and got their suits onto some of the world’s leading freesurfers. In 1994, Raphaël & Sophie Salles started F-One, a brand for the…

By Paul Evans

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Discovering Bagpipe; A Brief History Of A Crazy Scottish Slab

It was a balmy summer’s day in 1975’s when Welsh surfer and photographer Paul Gill crossed a boggy field on Scotland’s north coast and watched waves breaking across the shallow flagstone shelf that would come to be known as the…

By Luke Gartside

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Surfing Through A Tsunami In Peru; Felipe Pomar’s Legendary Ride

[Earlier this month we brought you a potted history of pop-culture’s obsession with the concept of tsunami surfing; spanning appearances in old Hawaiian folklore, through TV ads and Hollywood cult classics, to an alleged feature in one of youtube’s first…

By Luke Gartside

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Surfing Through A Tsunami In Samoa

Earlier this month we brought you a potted history of pop-culture’s obsession with the concept of tsunami surfing; spanning appearances in old Hawaiian folklore, through TV ads and Hollywood cult classics, to an alleged feature in one of youtube’s first…

By Luke Gartside

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GALLERY: The Many Faces Of Nazaré By Helio Antonio

For centuries Nazaré was a seaside town like any other. Just a mass of white houses with terracottas rooves sprawling back from the coast where the beaches bustled with tourists, frolicking among brightly coloured boats and a tangle of fishing…

By Luke Gartside

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Confessions Of A Luxury Surf Guide

Learning to surf feels like a pretty levelling experience, doesn’t it? For most, it involves a well-pissed-in surf school wettie, a mostly waterlogged foamie and the waving arms of a cock-shore instructor from the Home Counties. However, if you’re in…

By Luke Gartside

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Confessions of a Teahupoo First Timer

You get a job as an editor of a surf mag, and it’s mostly good news. Good news for the Student Loans Company after all those years, ok news in credit card and overdraft land, epic news for your quiver…

By Paul Evans

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Europe’s Longest Waves

For one reason or another, length of ride has always captured surfers’ imaginations. Part launched into collected surf psyche by Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer Cape St Francis stitch up (“waves so long, we couldn’t capture then on a single reel…

By Paul Evans

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