More than the mild surf kicked up foam at the 2004 Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival last weekend. The art of designing surf boats has reached a boil. Paddlers hunting a competitive edge launched new ...

The dream is as old as sports. Golfers seek clubs which might whack balls 10 more yards down a freeway. Hikers hope for boots that can leave them happily wiggling toes after an 18-mile day. Sailors ...

Bobbing up and down in waves that sparkle in the morning sun, the Boys of Late Summer — as they don’t mind being called — look like mechanical toys, as if an unseen hand wound them up on the beach and ...

NEWPORT -- I imagined trying to surf my kayak in the ocean would be similar to learning to paddle it in whitewater: humbling, but with salt instead of fresh water shooting up my nose. Mercifully, I ...