There’s nothing like a nice rack of shimmering surfboards to look at, discuss and compare and Down The Lines Boardroom in Hayle has to be one of the best showrooms in the business. Now thanks to a collab with south coast surf shop “Sorted” they have a brand new boardroom in Bournemouth!
“We are delighted to announce the opening of a new DTL Boardroom in Bournemouth! By partnering with Sorted Surf Shop, we’ve been able to get 150+ boards from some of our favourite brands up to the south coast for you to have a proper look at.
“There’s nothing like a bricks and mortar surf shop, and feeling really is believing when it comes to surfboards!
“We’ve got the all-new HYFI 3.0 technology from JS Industries, stunning performance midlengths from Christenson, a hand picked selection of Bing longboards, and a few proper sale bargains. You’ll find these amongst a whole load of other boards from some of our favourite brands like DHD, Jim Banks, Vouch, and more.
“We’re open Friday-Sunday from 10am, so swing by the boardroom at 42 Sea Road this weekend to check out our new location, and join us in celebrating this new chapter for DTL. Thank you to all our existing customers, your support means the world. We can’t wait to bring the Down The Line message to an even wider audience.”
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Carissa v Owen v Mikey… And that’s just the first three!
The iconic Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy is back, with an all-star lineup heading to Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa to battle it out in paradise for USD 25,000. The twelfth edition of the world’s most luxurious event hits the waves at Kuda Huraa from 29 August to 5 September 2024
The event is not only the world’s most luxurious but its most unique, with heat times staggered dependant on age, and surfers bringing a varied quiver of surfboards for the three different divisions. Held at the picture-perfect righthand reef break of Sultans, competitors will face-off on single fin, twin fin and (thruster) tri-fin surfboards as they chase the Surfing Champions Trophy.
After 2012 World Champion Joel Parkinson created history by clean-sweeping last year’s event, the Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy is ecstatic to announce that five-time World Champion and surfing’s first-ever female Olympic gold medallist, Hawaii’s Carissa Moore, will be joining the field in 2024.
“It’s such an awesome event, and a perfect opportunity to relax between some idyllic waves in the Maldives,” says Carissa, who was inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame in 2014, and who flies to the Maldives looking to add the Surfing Champions Trophy to an incredible resumé that includes three Triple Crown Of Surfing titles, a staggering 28 Championship Tour victories, and her five world crowns from 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019 and 2021.
Joining Carissa in the waters off Kuda Huraa will be fellow Olympic medallist Owen Wright, who claimed bronze at the Tokyo Games for Australia, and who boasts four Championship Tour victories of his own, including pocketing the biggest prize purse in history when he took out the Quiksilver Pro New York in 2011.
“I can’t wait to get back to the Maldives!” says Owen. “The waves are so fun, Four Seasons Kuda Huraa looks incredible, and spending a week in paradise with my family will be a dream. I think they’re even more excited than I am!”
The Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy is also delighted to announce that peerless free surf talent Mikey February will be joining the roster this year. The South African is idolised around the world for his incredible style, and his electric repertoire in the water will pair perfectly with the varied equipment to be ridden in competition.
“The Surfing Champions Trophy looks like the dreamiest competition you could ever be a part of,” says Mikey. “My first ever international surf trip was to the Maldives, and I loved it, so to finally go back and do it this way, staying at the Four Seasons with my family, will be epic. Surfing a bunch of different boards and seeing everyone else do the same in great waves just looks so fun. I’m really excited.”
The second half of the draw will be announced closer to the running of the Surfing Champions Trophy, with two more international competitors and a Maldivian wildcard to round out the roster. While the field will fight for prize money and prestige in the water, the rest of their week will be spent enjoying all that Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa has to offer.
“The SCT is one of the most hotly anticipated events in the Kuda Huraa calendar,” comments Didier Jardin, General Manager at Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa. “With the iconic talent of Carissa Moore, Owen Wright and Mikey February already secured for 2024, we know it’s going to be special. We’re looking forward to sharing the final line-up and seeing surfing legends battle it out for the trophy.”
Stay tuned for updates, as the twelfth edition of the Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy gets ready to launch this August. To enjoy front row seats to the surfing action, take advantage of a sun-kissed 20% off stays this summer at Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Kuda Huraa click here.
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is set to travel the length of the UK in a bespoke double-decker tour bus, galvanising communities across the country to demand election candidates end sewage pollution. Launching today, SAS’s Election Road Trip will highlight the dire state of our rivers and seas as a key issue for voters at the general election in July.
The Election Road Trip will take the sewage debate to political, sewage and surfing hotspots, with all candidates invited to answer questions from locals at a series of hustings events. The tour kicks off with a demonstration at Windermere alongside local campaigner Matt Staniek, followed by hustings in locations from Edinburgh in Scotland to St Agnes in Cornwall. The bus harks back to SAS’ early 90s roots, where the early supporters of the group used to tour the country, surfboards in tow, to protest, paddle and party. It will host supporting events at each destination, to mobilise the local community, ranging from musical performances and Q&A sessions, to beach cleans and BBQs.
The eight destinations on the route – home to impassioned communities with a track record of campaigning on sewage pollution – are also politically important seats that are likely to be hotly contested on 4 July. These include the key swing seats of Gower and Hastings and Rye, and the ‘red wall’ constituency of Redcar. There is also a stop reserved on the banks of the River Swale, in the constituency of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, where local activists have been fighting to clean up their favorite swimming spot.
Giles Bristow, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage, said: “All aboard the Number Two bus – SAS is going on tour! We are hitting the road, wetsuits, and surfboards in tow, to raise a stink about the sewage scandal in major election battlegrounds across the UK. This election is a pivotal moment in the fight to end sewage pollution and we’re determined to grasp it with both hands – and to bring some much-needed fun to the battle-bus bore-fest while we do it. After all, road trips are in surfing’s DNA.”
“From Edinburgh to St Agnes, the SAS party bus will be taking an ever-changing crew of campaigners from town-to-town, helping local communities uncover which of their parliamentary candidates are truly committed to cutting the crap.
“We’ve been on the front line fighting against sewage pollution for more than 30 years and so we know how to sniff out flash-in-the-pan pledges from insincere vote-seeking candidates. Approaching our ninth General Election, our crack team of campaigners will be laser-focused on obtaining real commitments to deliver long-term change for our rivers and seas, from all political parties.
“This is a national issue that is firing up a real sense of fury and outrage in communities – a true thread that links voters up and down the country and across the political spectrum. We’re mobilising our SAS party bus to show election candidates that if tackling sewage pollution isn’t top of their to do list, their campaign needs a major rethink – fast.”
The bus will make its first stop on Monday 17th June for a demonstration at Windermere, which made headlines earlier this year after toxic algal blooms in the lake were linked to sewage pollution. The first hustings will take place in Edinburgh the following day (Tuesday 18th June), and events are scheduled over the subsequent ten days in locations such as Plymouth, Reading and Hastings.
In between hustings events, the bus will take detours to the headquarters of five major water companies – Northumbrian Water, United Utilities, Severn Trent Water, Thames Water and South West Water – with the SAS team delivering letters demanding CEOs clean up their act.The tour will wrap up in SAS’s hometown of St Agnes in Cornwall on Saturday 29th June.
The Election Road Trip will be visiting the following locations:
Windermere – Monday 17th June – Demonstration – Exact timings TBC
Edinburgh – Tuesday 18th June – 7 – 8.30pm
Saltburn (Yorkshire) – Thursday 20th June – 7.30 – 9pm
Richmond (Yorkshire) – Friday 21st June – 7 – 8.30pm
Gower (Wales) – Sunday 23rd June – 4.30 – 6pm
Reading – Monday 24th June – 4.30 – 6pm
Hastings – Tuesday 25th June – 7 – 8.30pm
Plymouth – Thursday 27th June – 6 – 7.30pm
St Agnes – Saturday 29th June – 2 – 4pm
More information about each event here.
