Fifteen years after winning her first surfung world title, in 2022 STEPHANIE GILMORE won her eighth, eclipsing Layne Beachley as the greatest of all time. And she’s not done yet… Sometimes – too often, in fact – bad things happen to good people for no discernible reason. Having secured her fourth consecutive world title in
Standing row upon row in a Tauranga Airport hangar are more than 130 short and long surfboards from a bygone era. The boards, which date from the early 1960s.