This ain’t Da Bull at Makaha, Greenough at the Indicator outside the real Rincon. By now the thing is waist high, and I’m surfing it as a furious intermediate—at best.
N.E. Kachel
Back in 2021, Black Hole Transmissions correspondent Derek Hynd launched Hyndline. HyndLine was to be a series of 30 hand-shaped board models — or codes — representing 30 years of Hynd’s surfing progression from 1973-2003. 10 boards being shaped per code.
It’s a Saturday morning in the winter of 1994. I’m ten years old. An offshore wind carries the blunt smell of industry across the Hunter Valley and down to the inside bowl of one of the local reefs.