Healdsburg CA
Are you getting sick of us talking about this event? It’s going to be awesome. And it just got awesomer: Rosso Pizzeria is bringing their wood fire trailer on Friday night (October 23); they’ll be selling hot crisp pizza straight from their Italian stone oven. Which will be perfect with the Dakine Syrah we’ll be pouring.

And did we mention the Mavericks Cabernet Sauvignon we’ll be pouring? Everyone who’s tasted this elixir is raving about it. Created by Oded Shakked and guest vintner Peter Mel. You don’t want to miss this new blend.

Update: 10/07/09
Half Moon Bay Ca
The team have been gathering up as much memorabilia as they can get their hands on. This event will have images spanning the entire history of Mavericks, along with many of the actual boards used in the Photographs (We will have most, if not all of the 1st place contest Boards on display along with many others). We will also have other historical memorabilia…

Come late October Sonoma County will not only welcome a new crop of world class wines, but the award winning photography of some of Action Sports best lensmen. “ Mavericks – Everest of the Seas” comes alive again just in time to set the stage for another epic Big Wave Season.

Sept 9th 2009
Half Moon Bay, Ca
Mix two of Northern California’s finest institutions – big wave surfing and the wine country – and you have what promises to be an amazing weekend at the Longboard Vineyards Tasting Room in Healdsburg October 23 – 25.

Relive heroic battles between man and wave as seen through the eyes of the cutting-edge photojournalists who risk life and limb to document the wave’s intense man-against-the-sea drama and obsessive lifestyle of Maverick’s elite riders.

Oded Shakked, a longtime surfer who founded Longboard Vineyards, will be unveiling his latest release, The Peter Mel/Mavericks Cabernet Sauvignon. This signature wine will be blended by not only Shakked but guest vintner, Peter Mel.

Mel, one of the most respected names in Big Wave Surfing is known as perhaps the most skillful surfer ever to ride Mavericks. The famed spot off the Half Moon Bay. In October of 1998 he was whipped into to what is now considered the biggest wave ever ridden… Mel along with the featured photographers, surfboard shapers and wine makers will be on hand for the Friday night reception. The reception will begin at 5pm and run until roughly 9pm.

(after party tbd)

Longboard Vineyard has always had a soft spot for surfers. It’s a place where you can hangout at a redwood-surfboard bar, or sample one of its award winning wines while kicking back on a comfortable sofa watching surf movies. For this harvest weekend event Shakked has enlisted “Mavericks: Everest of the Seas,” the heralded collection of Mavericks surf photography from Frank Quirarte, Doug Acton, Seth Migdail and Ed Grant.

“Everest of the Seas” first made its debut recently at the Coastal Arts League Gallery in Half Moon Bay, drawing large crowds and an enthusiastic response. It just finished a one-month highly successful run at San Francisco’s world class Museum and Gallery, SFMOMA.

“Everyone who sees the exhibit is just blown away,” said Grant, the curator of the Coastal Arts League Gallery. “Both surfers and non-surfers can’t help but get caught up in the energy and stoke that surrounds Maverick’s, the surfers and photographers who put it on the line every time they go out there.”

The event also represents a high point in the career of Oded Shakked, who was born in Israel and grew up near a beach just north of Tel Aviv. Immersed in surfing from the start, he made several trips around Europe’s Atlantic coast while discovering, to his delight, that “it was easier, cheaper and safer to drink good red wine than bottled water.” His twin loves of surfing and wine brought him to California, where he studied winemaking at UC Davis and became enamored with the people, climate and rich soil of Sonoma County. He founded Longboard Vineyards with the motto “Wine, waves and soul,” making it a highly unique fixture in wine country.

The October 23-25 weekend will also feature the sale of surfboards and memorabilia, along with Acton’s acclaimed book, “Inside Maverick’s.” Admission is free.

Opening reception sponsored by Maverick Events and Longboard VIneyards

frank Mavsurfer@Mavericks

Half Moon Bay – 06/01/09
First Annual Big Wave Surfing Film Festival
Presented by the Oceano Hotel and Spa, Sams Chowder House and the Old Princeton Landing

From the spirit of Jay Moriarity to women’s surfing to the powerful presence of Greg Noll, surfing fans are in for a treat June 17-20 when the first annual Half Moon Bay Big-Wave Surfing Film Festival takes place at the Oceano Hotel in Princeton Harbor. Just a stone’s throw away from the Big Wave Surfing Mecca known as Maverick’s.
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frank Frank Quirarte, Mavsurfer@Mavericks

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By Aaron Morrison
STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 10/05/2008 11:38:38 PM PDT

PRINCETON BY THE SEA — Two of four fishermen died Sunday after a boating accident near a famous big-wave surf spot near Half Moon Bay.

San Mateo County Sheriff’s Lt. Ray Lunny said the two fishermen, whose identities have not been released, died at Seton Medical Center in Daly City after a rescue near Mavericks notorious break.
The other two fishers are recovering at the hospital. Their identities have not been released either.
Around 12:30 p.m., rescue officers responded to reports of a 20-foot fishing boat that had capsized off the coast of Princeton by the Sea, an unincorportated part of San Mateo County.

An unidentified fishing boat rescued one man, who was still conscious. The other three, unconscious, were picked up by harbor master personnel on personal watercraft, Lunny said.
The overturned vessel was towed to Princeton by the Sea Harbor.

“The seas were pretty rough out there,” Lunny said.
Sunday’s weather forecast predicted partly cloudy skies, with winds at 5 to 10 mph. It is unclear if weather conditions contributed to the incident.

The events are still under investigation, Lunny said.
Tom Mattusch, owner of the Huli Cat fishing boat, had been working at the harbor for most of the day and overheard news of the rescue on his radio.

Earlier in the day, Mattusch walked his dogs and noticed big swells in the area where the fishers’s boat capsized.
“We heard reports of the swells and
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we chose not to go out,” Mattusch said.

frank Mavsurfer@Mavericks

(12-10) 20:38 PST PRINCETON BY THE SEA — Through a blanket of fog, it was a vision of death. Darryl Virostko, the big-wave surfer known as Flea, was taking what witnesses described as the worst-looking wipeout they ever saw. It was a gloomy day at Maverick’s last week, and a handful of riders were meeting the challenge of their lives.

The most-seasoned Maverick’s surfers have seen some epic disasters in their time. Jay Moriarity, who met his death years later while free-diving, took a well-publicized wipeout in 1994, just four days before the drowning of Hawaiian superstar Mark Foo. A Santa Cruz surfer named Neil Matthies took a fall on a giant peak in 1998 and was held under so long that a second wave passed over him before he came to the surface - about 45 seconds later, more than 100 yards inside the spot of impact.

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frank Bruce Jenkins, Mavsurfer@Mavericks

December 6, 2007
Legendary day at Maverick’s

‘Perhaps the biggest wave ever witnessed at Maverick’s’

JULIE JAG
SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
HALF MOON BAY — Grant Washburn knows his limits. When it comes to waves, a six-story wall of water is enough to convince the San Francisco big wave surfer to sit it out. That explains why the man known as the “gentle giant” was on a cliff filming documentary footage when perhaps the biggest wave ever witnessed at Maverick’s rolled through the break near Half Moon Bay on Tuesday.

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frank Frank Quirarte, Mavsurfer@Mavericks