Carve Magazine issue 178 Back Issue

Road testing Barbados for your possible surf trip visitation. Yes. Actual consumer journalism. Kind of. St Ives lad Harry de Roth has been on a tear overseas. We caught up with him via the medium of the internet for a catch up. The Gill is a British surfing institution. He's been on a jolly from the South Wales homeland to the hard to score North. Leon Glatzer experimenting with how well he can surf in all the rubber when he's used to surfing in just boardies. The last swell of the season in Ireland was a banger and an old haunt roared to life for the local crew. Plus: BOARD GUIDE - The latest and greatest weapons of mass surf destruction for your perusal and drooling. New sled for summer sir/madam? Legendary photographer Ted Grambeau goes deep into the Pacific to a land of heavy waves and sketchy cliffs. And finally the Carve Boardshorts guide. Nothing quite like the freedom of boardshorts. When you whack a pair on it's mentally acknowledging that summer is here ... or you've gone somewhere abroad that's proper toasty. Anyhoose. Here's this season's pick.