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Surf Splendor

538 - Liam McNamara

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Pipeline aficionado Liam McNamara joins us to discuss how growing up in a commune on welfare informed his approach to surfing on the North Shore, the single financial decision that salvaged his career earnings, how shepherding Hawaii's youth rectifies past misdeeds, and why his last session at Pipe was nearly his last day on earth. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Hey, I've got great news to announce here. We're going back to El Salvador.

0:04.3

Last year, or I should say this year, earlier in the year in April, we did a listener trip,

0:08.8

and it was awesome. We had such a good time. It was a week. It was 20 people, and it sold out.

0:15.1

We probably could have sold it out two or three times over. But we just published a YouTube video documenting that trip. So go to our YouTube

0:22.3

channel if you want to see it and learn more, see how it went. But we're doing the same thing.

0:26.3

We're replicating the trip. We're doing it in April 2025, April 1st through the 7th. There is

0:32.0

10 rooms available at Hotel Los Mungos. So if we all book double rooms, we'll have 20 people. If you want to book

0:38.8

a single room, you can do that. So anywhere from 10 to 20 people will be there. And it's right

0:43.3

at Punta Manga, which is a great wave. There's also a beach break out front. There's waves just

0:49.1

north and just south of there, actually everywhere, north and south for a long distance.

0:53.2

So tons of waves to surf around

0:55.2

six nights. If you want to do a single room, it's $1,700. If you want to share a room, it's $1,100,

1:01.9

almost $1,200, and that covers six nights plus three meals a day and drinks, excluding alcohol,

1:09.3

transport to and from the airports, um, rides to local surf

1:12.9

spots, all that sort of stuff. Basically everything other than your airfare. So if you want to get

1:17.5

in on this, again, space is limited. You can email me directly, surf splendor at gmail.com,

1:23.3

or Chris at waterways travel.com. Chris is spelled without an H, so C-R-I-S at waterways travel.com.

1:31.2

And yeah, first come, first serve. So we're excited. And then we're also planning a trip to

1:37.2

Chacama, Peru, in September of 2025. So keep that in mind as well. But El Salvador is first in April. So don't hesitate.

1:47.5

And yeah, hope you can join us. Looking forward to it. Thanks.

1:54.2

Hawaiian surfing is dead. Yep. To not have the world champion decided on the north shore of Oahu at Pipeline, you would

2:06.2

have to say is the biggest mistake in the sport of surfing.

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