JOEL FURMAN’s iceboat — a plywood shingle on skate blades, with a Sunfish sail — clacked and clattered over the frozen Great South Bay at 50 miles per hour.
“Movin’, huh?†yelled Mr. Furman, 60, sheeting in his fluttering sail on a recent blustery Sunday. He was wearing goggles and a crash helmet. “Cold, huh?â€
Yes, on both counts. And yes, 50 miles per hour…Â More info
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Olympic fans may soon get the chance to cheer for another sport.
Inline speed skating is not your average roll around the rink, rather a sport gaining momentum around the world.
The annual Blue Ridge Challenge is the largest inline speed skating competition in the U.S. It’s been held in Roanoke for the past four years. The competition is open to both the young and old.
“Sometimes you fall; like I fell today… it hurts,” says seven-year-old Jake Guill…Â More info
Our recent Baja Update drew a significant amount speculative feedback regarding the safety, or lack thereof, in Northern Baja. We thought one response, however, deserved to be shared. In an unsolicited, open letter, an anonymous Surfline user wrote of his most recent Baja experience:
Dear Surfline,
I wanted to drop a note and tell you guys of a very bad experience I endured while in Rosarito. It was the weekend of Jan 17-19th. I had traveled down there with my girl and we had surfed BM’s all three days. There were alot of ski’s in the water (8+) and they made it hard for any of the paddle in crew to get any decent waves. I even tried going down the beach farther, but it seemed like they kept following me. That was a disappointment, but not the main point of this letter. After surfing all day my chick and I decided to hang out and wait till late evening to …Â More info
Even the most hard-core local would agree that Virginia Beach is definitely not an international surfing destination. So why did a pair of Australian die-hards have the city circled on their map before crossing the Pacific on the surf trip of a lifetime?
Jonno Durrant and Stefan Hunt were looking more for adventure than ideal surfing conditions when they set out across America to film their surf documentary “Surfing 50 States,” which blends their passion for surfing with a cultural sojourn through the United States.
While making their way down the East Coast in January 2007, the Aussies were …Â More info