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Volcom Stone has been showing their new apparel line at the former Gerry Lopez house. What better place to do business than the lanai overlooking Pipeline.

Pipeline charger Jason Shibata (1) joins MacBeth Footwear as their new Hawai‘i team manager.

Makua Rothman’s boards haven’t had many lams on them lately. But soon we should see a new RVCA decal, since he’s one of the newest members to the team.

World Title and six-time Triple Crown winner Sunny Garcia has recently signed with sponsor Versasurf Traction, a division of Waxless Surfboard Systems, Inc, out of San Clemente, Calif.


Kala Alexander (2) enjoyed showing his new sponsor Bravo Condoms around the North Shore during the winter hubbub. Bravo protected the Country dwellers, passing out free condoms at all the team houses along the Seven-mile Miracle. The condoms make all others look archaic with their unique wallet packaging, which contains three “wicked thin” condoms, a sticker, a Bravo-stash baggie and an information booklet. Bravocondoms.com

Surf stars united on Dec. 15, 2007 as Kekoa Cazimero made an appearance at the popular Skyline Nightclub thrown every first and third Saturday at the Hano Hano Room atop the Sheraton Waikiki by Flash & Matty Boy Productions. Snazzy Caz gave away a surfboard to a lucky winner that evening and danced the night away with Miss Candy, who was there celebrating the launch of her new website and giving away a free breast enhancement. Meanwhile, across town, Jamie O (5) was celebrating the launch of his new Etnies sandal at Pipeline Café and the after-party at Lotus Soundbar in Waikiki.

Bacon
As if the waves weren’t big enough for Jamie Sterling at the 2008 Da Hui Backdoor Shootout, he took off mid-contest and flew over to California for the Mavericks Surf Contest where he charged his way to third place in 25- to 30-foot swell, ideal Maverick’s conditions. He was also honored with the Jay Moriarity Award for the intense spirit and passion he exemplifies for big-wave surfing.

Occy (4) didn’t take much time off in his retirement from competitive surfing. It seems the warm water of the Gold Coast easily lulled him back into competition for the 2008 Jim Beam Surftag event. He paddled out with the Snapper Rocks team at Duranbah and led the crew to a victory in the event.

ASP World Tour surfer Chris Ward (3), the 17th seed for the 2008 season, found himself in a scuffle outside a bar in Mammoth, Calif. in the early hours of Tuesday, Jan. 8. He was arrested on assault and battery and disturbing the peace charges. The ASP is launching an investigation of its own. According to ASP Rules & Disciplinary Committee Chairman Robert Gerard, “Any surfer who damages the image of the sporting body, no matter the place or location, is subject to suspension or expulsion from the ASP World Tour.” The ASP will release further information once its investigation is complete and the criminal case is resolved.

Lettuce
For the first time ever, retailers and industry members who attended the ASR January tradeshow in San Diego had the opportunity to see and experience the consolidated line for Project BLUE. One of the breakout buzz brands of the year in 2007, Project BLUE united six different companies, including Billabong, Reef, O’Neill, Nixon, Electric Visual and DAKINE, to produce special limited edition product under the Project BLUE initiative. A portion of proceeds from the sales of each Project BLUE item is then donated to the Surfrider Foundation to assist them in their efforts to protect and preserve coastal and marine environments.


Tomato
The City and County of Honolulu is erecting 86 beach signs with GPS coordinates printed on them to mark public right of ways around O‘ahu. These signs will help to pinpoint distant beach locations to assist rescue and emergency services in case of crisis. Officials say the project is 98% complete, with signage on the North Shore and Westside soon to be added.

The State Harbors Division announced plans to extend existing breakwaters and construct additional moorings at Kahului Harbor on Maui's north shore. Several local canoe paddling clubs and heaps of surfers complained to officials that these new build outs would ruin the perfect paddling conditions and the shapely lefthand reef breaks. Surfers unite!


Aloha
Monterey Bay big-wave charger and well-known Hawaiian waterman Peter Davi (6), 45, drowned while surfing Ghost Tree on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2008. On the biggest day ever ridden at the big-wave right, he was the only surfer paddling into the over 70-foot walls of water with the exception of Anthony Tashnick. Davi was honored with paddle-out ceremonies in Monterey and the North Shore.

Gold Coast identity and surfing solicitor Denis Callinan, 53, died as a result of surgery complication on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008 at John Flynn Hospital on the Gold Coast of Australia. His peers knew him as a “surfing saint” because of his longtime work with charity. Denis was very much part of the Burleigh scene and its closely guarded surfing community. He traveled frequently to Fiji, Samoa and Hawai‘i where he would stay with close friend and legendary Hawaiian shaper Dennis Pang.

Orange County surfer Dane Williams, 23, who worked in the marketing department at Hurley, went missing on Friday night, Jan. 25 after the ASR Tradeshow in San Diego. His body was found the following Tuesday five miles from where he was last seen.
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