FINANCIAL ADVICE: From the Green Room to a One, Two, or Three Bedroom
Those old enough to remember the pre-recession economy, circa 2007, will certainly recall how utterly bananas the housing market was in Northeast Flori…
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Zander Morton’s Dream Job Vanished, so he Embarked on a New Odyssey
“Magazines, Christ, they’ll kill you,” former Surfing Magazine Nick Carroll lamented in his heartfelt eulogy to the shuttered magazine. In the piece, p…
Tonight: Meet Very Funny, Very Good Surf Journalist Chas Smith at SURFER the Bar
Author, and now documentarian, Chas Smith has earned infamy in the world of surf journalism, spinning mostly first-person documentations of surfdom acr…
Go: Florida Surf Film Festival at Surfer the Bar
Though Florida’s vibrant surf communities are collectively known more for the ridiculous number of surf stars the state’s produced—Frieda Zamba, Lisa A…
Get Psyched with Volcom Stoneys
Surfer-shaper-artist-screenprinter, Wayne Satterwhite, Jr. is the Northeast Florida surf community’s resident renaissance man. Aside from being one of …
Behind the Centerfold: The Outdoor Issue
Northeast Florida is a place of unimpeachable beauty, often inspiring us to be our best selves. It’s also fully capable of stopping us in our tracks. H…
LINER NOTES: Here’s what’s inside our 2018 Outdoor Issue
Growing up listening to my late-father’s tales of psychedelic surf exploits during the mid-70s post-shortboard revolution, California, especially South…
Watch: Justin Quintal in “All Day, All Night, All Right (Coast)”
North Florida surfer Justin Quintal suffers from a rare and incurable condition. Unlike more common, more treatable abnormalities, such as F.O.M.O., Qu…
Spanish Roots: Local surfers exhibit classic approaches at the Duct Tape Invitational in Spain
After 14 events over the course of nearly a decade, Joel Tudor’s traveling circus—better known as The Vans Duct Tape Invitational—has grown to include …
Legend Alert: Watch this cool video honoring three influential Florida surfers
A couple of weeks ago during a run of freak late April swell, as lines of long period swell ran across the then-well-packed sandbars, creating shoulder…
Know Your Rights: Wood Surfboard Shaper and Surf shop owner, Drew McCormick
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with East Coast surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passio…
Interview: Photographer Julien Roubinet Stopped by to talk New York-New Jersey surfing and “Ice Cream Headaches”
“If they get lucky, some people start out discovering something that makes them feel better than they ever felt before. If the feeling is strong, they …
Interview: Karina Petroni on island life, sensory overload, and falling in love with surfing all over again
Standing on the boardwalk at 6th Ave. North in Jacksonville Beach, former internationally ranked competitive surf-star Karina Petroni is suddenly overw…
Posts of the Month: VOID Readers Really Liked These Articles
There's no shortage of nonsense clogging up our feeds, these day. Much of it is noise coming from beyond our paradisiacal little Northeast Florida enc…
From the Lineup: Freaky Fun Late April Swell Gallery
After showing off all winter, the mighty Atlantic proved she still had a few tricks up her sleeve—much to the amusement of local surfers—sending a some…
Interview: French Log-Sytlist Nathan Sadoun likes North Florida, Loves Baconators
French longboard maestro Nathan Sadoun is just 19-years old. Yet the young Marseillais has already developed a refined style, evident in his steezy nos…
OPINION: Bring Us a Wave Pool!
Last summer, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, Jaguars Owner Shad Khan, City Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa and Jags President Mark Lamping took …
Localism Is not a Dirty Word
“That’s far enough slug,” the guy said with an apparent level of seriousness behind a sly grin. With only three heads in the water that morning, paddl…
Watch–Get Tarpitted with Trenton Phillips in “Pegasus”
Wanna be like North Florida's Trenton Phillips? First you'll need a cool nickname--"Tarpits" is taken, so think of another. Then, once you've secure…
Interview–Damien Hobgood Talks Retirement, New Line of Safety/Treatment Products
Back in 2004 at the Fiji Pro, a surfer from Satellite Beach, Florida set the highest two-wave grand final score in pro surfing by scoring 19.9 out of 2…
Go: Matt Gray Memorial Doc at The Skate Yard
Nearly a dozen years ago, the death of beaches' local, Matt “Rasta” Gray, at just 21-years of age, left an enormous void in the hearts of his friends a…
Ozzie, Burch, and the Volcom Crew Rage for a Reason in NEFL
A few weeks ago, I jumped on Volcom’s tour bus--a somewhat reliable 1983 Wanderlodge--with an idiosyncratic crew of locals (Wayne Satterwhite, Daniel T…
2018 Surfboard Guide: Dial-in your Quiver
With the summer doldrums upon us, it's important to keep some perspective. We Northeast Florida surfers have had a #blessed winter. See for yourself, h…
Sand Your Ground: Florida bill makes it easier for private landowners to restrict beach access
On July 1, just as hounds of locals and tourists, alike, descend upon the beaches of Northeast Florida for the Fourth of July, a new bill, signed into …
When Surfer Magazine First Came to Town
The late 1980s was a boom time for the American economy. Reaganomics, Gordon Gekko, conspicuous consumption: As GDP climbed and crested in nearly every…