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Books to read while you're waiting for the waves
March 29, 2007
It's still too cold for me to surf, I know (I only have a 3/4 suit, and my Florida blood is still too thin for Mid-Atlantic waters in spring). But I still check out surfline.com every now and then to see the surf at 90th street in Rockaway, or at Bradley Beach down the Jersey Shore. For Bradley Beach: "Light winds with a slight chop. Small short period wind waves." Nada.
But just as summer grilling and barbecuing books keep me dreaming until the summer heat arrives, books on surfing keep me occupied. There's a beautiful coffee-table book coming out from Gibbs Smith called Greg Noll: The Art of the Surfboard. It's got all the longboard designs from the prison-shorts, big-wave surfer. And coming out from Bloomsbury in June is a book on the Ken Bradshaw/Mark Foo rivalry called Stealing the Wave by Brit surf enthusiast Andy Martin.
Maybe that'll keep me busy until the next time I check the surf report.
Posted by Mark Rotella on March 29, 2007 | Comments (0)
