Waterways Travel.com. Expertly crafted surf experiences. Now is the time to map out your spring

vacation, summer travel, maybe even start aiming for autumn. And Waterways is your ticket to scoring.

They have helped the surf industry and regular folk like you and I score for 30 years.

Three decades equates to highly informed travel guidance and booking, thoroughly executed,

prioritizing customer service and personalization.

They built the business in the 90s and 2000s by finding off the beaten track destinations.

Many of those have now become some of the most well-known and proven surf zones that you and I grew up salivating over.

But the good news is they are still in the business of pioneering exotic and emerging locales.

So whether you want to go somewhere established like Fiji, Indo, Central America, South Africa, or maybe you want to go somewhere

that none of your mates have ever even heard of, waterways has been there, they will get you there,

timed with a swell, empowered by the knowledge of what conditions to be prepared for

and into whatever level of luxury you need. So don't get skunked by trying to do it alone. Save the

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A seagull like me.

Alex Banyay is today's guest, and I would bet money that you don't know his name.

In fact, if I asked you who shaped the surfboard that you're riding right now, almost all

of you would know.

Then if I asked who laminated it, I don't know, maybe a quarter of you might know.

But if I asked who sanded that board, none of you would know.

Maybe 1% of you might know.

But the reality is, if you asked your shaper about the sander's role in the factory, they'll tell you that it's the final and most important role that decides whether your surfboard works or it's a dud, whether it lasts a lifetime or whether it dense and buckles.

Back in 2018, when I did a series on board building with Dave Parmenter, he was adamant about telling

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