White Horses

BREATHE IN, SLOW DOWN

AN APPRECIATION BY PACHA LIGHT RETURNED WITH LOVE, BY DEAN DAMPNEY A FEW OF THEIR FAVOURITE THNGS, BY BRUCE USHER LIFE UNDER SAIL, WITH GRA MURDOCH ■

I imagine most of my possessions will outlive me. It’s a sobering thought. I’ll be burned, and chucked into the water by some young relative, then there will be all this shit sitting around for someone to deal with. Or will there? The tree behind me

The Red Pat Rawson board (17½” wide) behind me is one of my remaining Pipeline boards from the early 1990s. The pink board from “the snap” is in halves and on display with my black Gath helmet in Barry Kanaiaupuni’s Boardrider store at Haleiwa. The R

Still hours ’til daylight and the carpark’s chokkas already. Vans and utes, strewn with guns, parked bumper to bumper for the length of the street and around the corner. Reaching the lineup after paddling the requisite K or so, it’s not yet light eno

I was 19 when I got hooked on sailing. It was summertime on the North Shore and my friend, Erik Knutson, had a tiny little sailboat. My brother and I jumped in one day and we sailed from Ehukai down to Waimea. And it was just so much fun. The next we

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PHIL USHER PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE FAR NORTH COAST BY ANDREW SHIELD MICHAEL CARSON PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE NSW SOUTH COAST BY RAY COLLINS COREY GRAHAM PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE SURF COAST BY ULA MAJEWSKI DALE WILSON PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE GC BY ANDREW SHIELD We were

“I’m an Australia-born, Costa Rica based artist and designer. I live and surf in Playa Negra. My art and my life is a constant and evolving exploration of travel, murals (I have painted 263 in six countries), surfing, photography, tarot, colour (espe

I’m 41. Three kids. I’ve seen the spare tyre come and go above my waist line, more prominent with each child. That former life – surfing hours on end, days on end – now replaced with three-wave surfs and half-hour ‘Dad’ windows. Wouldn’t have it any

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THE CARVER MATT DILLON TIKI CREATOR WITH BRUCE USHER THE LEGEND JIM DAVIDSON NATIONAL TREASURE WITH JJ JENKINS THE LENDER ADRIAAN VAN DER WALLEN BOARD LIBRARY FOUNDER WITH BRUCE USHER ■

I’ve always been into timber work and my boat building apprenticeship heightened that interest, but during a trip to Hawaii in 2015 I saw this friendly-faced Hawaiian man carving a Tiki in a back alley market in Waikiki. He was wearing a singlet, sho

I live at Avalon and I’m a PDHPE teacher (sports and health teacher) at the Northern Beaches Secondary College. About 17 years ago, two year-eight students asked if I had a spare fibreglass board for them. They were doing the Learn to Surf program. W

LINLEY HURRELL ON THE PLEASURES OF QUIETUDE I believe that everything’s a balance — whatever you take from the ocean, you have to give it back, in some form. I grew up just north of the 90 Mile Beach, in Gippsland, eastern Victoria. I spent a lot of

BREATHE OUT, THERE YOU GO! Though there’s too many people to thank individually for their amazing contribution to this edition, we’re gonna give it a crack anyway. First up, when we set out to commission artwork for this edition of White Horses, we h

JOSH AND JOSH FROM HURLEY NEIL FROM RIP CURL BUTCH, TIM AND KAZ FROM REEF NATHAN AND TOM FROM LEISURE COLLECTIVE RAZ, WAZZA AND ZANE FROM FIREWIRE IAN FROM ATOLL TRAVEL DANE, NAIMA AND HAYLEY FROM PATAGONIA JD AND BAINY FROM O’NEILL BRIAN AND DONNA F

George Greenough • Hugh McLeod • Australian Serials • John Young • Royce Leu • Gerry Lopez • Marlton Family • Kurt Avouris • Nick Greally • Rex Gillard • Julia White • Shannon Platt • Gary Saunders • Adrian Peirce • Adrian Peirce • Mick Rudder • Simo