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Remembering big-wave and textile industry pioneer Walter Hoffman, (1931-2024).By Tim Watts

Nathan Fletcher has spent most of his life in the shadow of his family. In 2011, however, he dropped into one of the heaviest waves…By Roger Coathup

Pro skater Grayson Fletcher is the scion of the Hoffman/Fletcher axis, a distinction wrought with blessings and perhaps more than one curse. Luckily, most of…By Roger Coathup

By Roger Coathup

To really understand the inner-workings of a dynasty, it helps to have an insider show you the kingdom. Lady Astrodeck walks us through her marriage…By Roger Coathup

Academics seek knowledge. Capitalists seek wealth. The Fletchers have chased hedonistic experience. For Herbie Fletcher, this worldview has translated into hanging with the likes of…By Roger Coathup

Late-millennial big-wave waterman Marty Hoffman spent much of his youth in the orbit of his father, Flippy, surfing the North Shore, Indo, and deep into…By Roger Coathup

Flippy Hoffman was part surfer, part pirate, part business-hawk, and all character. Along with his younger brother, Walter, his Hawaiian big-wave water time in the…By Roger Coathup

Joyce Hoffman established the image of the archetypal pro surfer. Fiercely competitive and highly photogenic, she won four U.S. Championships in the 1960s and 70s,…By Roger Coathup

Walter Hoffman was in early at Malibu and then went farther afield to sample big surf in Makaha and along the North Shore. His efforts…By Roger Coathup

By Roger Coathup

Chilean surf gauchos Julian and Joaquin Azulay left Buenos Aires in a truck loaded with camping gear on a mission to scout an underexplored island…By Roger Coathup

By Roger Coathup

“That's the key to the whole getting robbed thing, just give ‘em your stuff. Like when I got stabbed here, I had a hut right…By Roger Coathup