I need your help, bros!

Here’s why: I distinctly remember seeing (some years ago) in one of the magazines (most probably Surfer Mag) a photo of guys riding down the face of a very serious wave with a hawaiian pirogue (what’s the right word? Va’a?). The article accompanying the shot said that one of the guys (well known guys, but I can’t remember the names) actually broke his arm in the following wipe-out.

If any of you remembers that photo, could you please tell me which issue it was in? That would save me from going through the whole collection… Posting the photo would be even better, of course, but any info will be very much appreciated.

Come on, all you Hawaiian guys! I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

(I just want to show that to a friend who is heavily into this kind of surf riding vehicles…)

Thanks a lot!

hi Billy !

…would that be a shot of an outrigger canoe hurtling down the face at some place like “himalayas” or “avalanche” [you hawaiians have some GREAT warning names for your breaks eh …love it !], by any chance ?

That is in my collection somewhere . I was looking at that shot a couple of weeks ago …

Is that any use to you ?

cheers !

ben

That’s the one, Ben. Himalaya, right. Now tell me which issue and you win a free surfboard (of course, you’ll have to come to France to get it…)

I thought it was avalanche

aka hemmings comes to mind as one of the crew

a sequence of photos

surfing scooped surfer

good luck guys

on the ish ?

death defying

testimony to testesterone

and bravado

…ambrose…

documented

with film…

for the first time…

here ya go Balsa billy !

Surfing” volume 16 number 11 …November 1980 p.58…



Thanks heaps to both of you guys!

THat is the greatest thing i have ever seen!

And here is the first shot. (I thought the double page was the first, but a friend sent me this one. Great!)

that first shot is also on the last page of the new big ‘Surfer’ collector’s edition.

R.I.P. Tommy Holmes?

author of the hawaiian outrigger canoe book

,a steller read if only for the pictures

capital holy ship… do the lashings hold after the wipe off

wipe out may not be the appropriae terminology…

HMMMMM Dale hope ,never connected him with this maddness form .

kudos shirt guy

how long is a four man? 30’?

well lets talk about scale and paddle in…

praise to our polynesian predecessors…KUUPUNA O KAI

…ambrose…

they caught a couple of waves apparently , Bill.

That shot you got may be the OTHER wave , I think [amazing stuff eh ?]

Like Amby commented , if the outriggers are 30 foot long vessels , then those are a LOT bigger than 20’ [12" to a foot ] waves…

ben