Surfing the Triple Crown
In old Hawaii, the kahuna were endowed with special powers: prophecy, healing, canoe making, predicting the surf. As the Executive Director of the Triple Crown Randy Rarick is a modern day kahuna, responsible for the entire apparatus of the Hawaiian surfing events, an apparatus that goes into motion when Randy and his partner Bernie Baker sniff the wind, read the buoys, look at the satellites, consult their sub-kahuna, feel their bunions and decide the surf conditions will be worthy of a Triple Crown event.
It’s all a big deal, that requires a great deal of patience and experience, but Rarick has that experience, as he has lived on the North Shore for 35 years and has been involved with competitive professional surfing going back to the early days of the IPS and the ASP.
On Sunday, December 3, Rarick is at home, in his office, cruising a little bit during an off day in the Triple Crown. The O’Neill Sunset is on hold, and the North Shore is moving out of a period of bad weather and bad surf. Rarick answers a phone all from a guy in Las Vegas who is looking for a board to go with this woodie. Randy deals with that, and with a Brazilian guy wanting to buy some t-shirts, then he sits in his office, tries to ignore the phone and answers a few questions.
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