Skimboarding Jaws: How Sean McClenahan Surfed Pe'ahi Finless
Staff Sean McClenahan has wanted to ride a skimboard at Jaws for quite a while now. Skimboards, of course, aren’t generally thought of as big-wave surf craft — with the rare exception here and there — but McClenahan has been working his way up to it. “The desire to want to skimboard in big waves comes from years of paddle-in skim surfing finless at Honolua Bay and other spots around Maui,” he explained. That’s what gave me the desire to ride bigger waves finless.” When the first glimpses of the truly colossal swell that was headed towards Hawaii began to show up on the...
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