Couldn’t help thinking of Bob McTavish paddling out here in late ’67 on his newly hawaiinised pintail, gleefully announcing the arrival of short boards amidst bewildered yanks, or George Greenough gliding down that pacey, tea coloured line nearby, amidst oil tankers, rigs and derelict pylons in the early minutes of Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer a few years earlier.
Rincon video Gary Crockett 2010
George Greenough at Sandspit near Santa Barbara, screen grab from Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer 1964