By and large I do love internet swell forecasts. For the modern surfer we have an oceanography service that allows us to quite literally plan our professional lives around the next swell. Ever wondered why the late completion of your seaside home renovation coincided with a bulging swell season? Perhaps not, but read on.
It’s brass monkeys out there and the price of gas is on the up. So get yourself kitted out with some Finisterre insulated gear this Christmas.
Finisterre has just scooped the highly coveted RSPCA Good Business Award for helping to save the British Bowmont – one of the rarest breeds of sheep in the world – from extinction.
You won’t have seen this before. No really, you won’t have. Cornwall good guys Finisterre find time to interfere with wildlife sufficiently to drive it into the ocean. Surfing dogs are so passée. I’ll spare you the clichés, have a look.
Northern California’s supreme big wave spot came alive this weekend as crowds flocked to watch the worlds most dedicated big wave riders take on the storm of the decade – creating waves breaking up to 40ft.
Finisterre has been busy forging links with the emerging Afghanistan Skatescene. Skateistan is Kabul’s first skateboarding school.
On Christmas day 2009, Carlos Burle – renowned top ten big wave surfer became father to Reno Kai Moura Burle. That was a little over a month ago, in the meantime, he’s still been training on the North Shore and grabbing the occasional bomb off Pe’ahi.
Five years ago Tom Kay (Finisterre Founder) and Ernest Capbert (Marketing Director), decided to pile into a rented van and head to London’s Heathrow Airport to pick up Carlos Burle one of the world’s finest big wave riders.
The life of Jai
Jai Lee's personal struggles and addiction to noseriding have twisted his creativity
El Mar, Mi Alma
A visual love song to the surf blessed land of Chile.
Be Breizh!
Mark Sankey and Alexa Poppe explore the underrated delights that Brittany has to offer.
Taiwan untouched
Neil Armstrong gives us a taste of what to expect.
Pismo Beach. For better or worse
Dan Hamlin and Jeff Pfost contribute a photo essay on Kelly Slater's worst wave.
Tyler Warren Experiments
Tyler Warren pilots a steady course through the hype.
Castles made of sand
Sam Widdows swaps London for Nicaragua, and finds an entirely different tube ride.
Dont Jump Off the Pier
A brief history of surfing in the north-east of England.
Forty Bonzer Years
Malcolm Campbell lists fourty notable things to represent the forty years of the Bonzer.
Mission: possible
Portugal explodes onto the global big wave circuit.
Thirty thousand
Richard James shoots a surf trip of 30,000 kilometres along the west cost of Africa.
All in Hand
When it comes to surfcraft there’s a newcomer making waves
