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ISSUE 100 - What’s in it? Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info

ISSUE 100 - What’s in it? Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info

Yes it’s our 100th issue of PLB, and copies have landed at the homes of all our Australian subscribers, while the US and the rest of the world should be arriving any day. It's also now on-sale at newsagents nationally in Oz and NZ – ...


Gerry wins the Pilsner from Fine Surfcraft by Andrew Warhurst

Gerry wins the Pilsner from Fine Surfcraft by Andrew Warhurst

When we phoned Gerry Prietto he happened to be driving and his wife Christine answered and put the phone on ...

When wave pools attack!

When wave pools attack!

44 bloodied and injured when a “tsunami pool” in China malfunctioned, sending a massive wave crashing down on swimmers, according ...

Our 84th! That's A LOT of PLB subscriber's who've won a top-end longboard. And here's The Pilsner!

Our 84th! That's A LOT of PLB subscriber's who've won a top-end longboard. And here's The Pilsner!

From 9'1" to 9'8", the Pilsner model is the highest seller in the Fine Surfcraft by Andrew Warhurst range, and like all of ...

1948 – 2019. Vale Ronny Silcock, Australian larrikin legend surfer and artist

1948 – 2019. Vale Ronny Silcock, Australian larrikin legend surfer and artist

Much loved and admired by so many from all walks of life, Australian legendary surfer and gentleman Ronny Silcock died peacefully ...

PLB readers – our international Barz Optics winners!

PLB readers – our international Barz Optics winners!

While we have PLB magazine subscribers all over the world our 82 board winners over the years have all been ...

What a stunner! Our 81st board winner picks up his Wilkerson Surfcraft “Mojo”

What a stunner! Our 81st board winner picks up his Wilkerson Surfcraft “Mojo”

Just have a good look at that board, absolutely hand-made start to finish by Matt Wilkerson at his Noosa factory, ...

The new issue of PLB – so what’s in it?

The new issue of PLB – so what’s in it?

Mick the Mighty Proof Reader usually brings us his take on what’s in it each issue but he’s swanning around ...

David scores the Clearwater Viper – our 83rd subscriber board winner!

David scores the Clearwater Viper – our 83rd subscriber board winner!

David Sands from Shelly Beach was just a wee bit excited to win the tuned Clearwater Viper tri-fin in our ...

Meet the stoked surf nutters of the world’s original stationary wave, the Eisbach

Meet the stoked surf nutters of the world’s original stationary wave, the Eisbach

Germany and downtown Munich is not first place you think of when it comes to riding waves, but it does have ...

PODCAST: PLB’s ed chats youth, death, surf, and the price of fish on the “This Ocean Life” out of Santa Cruz, CA

PODCAST: PLB’s ed chats youth, death, surf, and the price of fish on the “This Ocean Life” out of Santa Cruz, CA

You may have caught this already on Facebook, you may not be the slightest bit interested, but if you’re curious ...

 Bay Street Beach & Santa Monica’s African American heritage –for the National Register of Historic Places

Bay Street Beach & Santa Monica’s African American heritage –for the National Register of Historic Places

Sea of Clouds, today, announced its intention to nominate Santa Monica’s Bay Street beach area (Los Angeles County, California), a ...

R.I.P. Scott Dillon

R.I.P. Scott Dillon

One of the original Brookvale Six, a larger-than-life character, a ratbag, a pioneering surfer and surfboard manufacturer, stockcar racer, big-wave ...

100% of current WSL surfers tested have Exotosis (Surfers Ear)

100% of current WSL surfers tested have Exotosis (Surfers Ear)

Preliminary findings from a study carried out on a number of the world's current professional surfers by the Water Base Research ...

We’re ba-aack! So PLB’s two weeks “gone bush” turned into a month – but how’s this for an excuse?

We’re ba-aack! So PLB’s two weeks “gone bush” turned into a month – but how’s this for an excuse?

Clearly getting more than they bargained for, the ed and the art director headed into the Pacific in search of ...

Gone bush - no phone, no internet, back March 4

Gone bush - no phone, no internet, back March 4

Yep, for the next fortnight the PLB ed and the art director have headed well off the grid into some ...

Farewell Bruce Brown – 1937-2017

Farewell Bruce Brown – 1937-2017

Bruce Brown single-handedly changed the public’s perceptions of the act of surfing, and of surfers, with The Endless Summer – ...

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