Does money buy happiness? In this case, it appears so.

"We’ve seen so many perfect tubes created out of nothing at the Surf Ranch," says Samuels. "It’s desensitized us, made perfection less compelling than it used to ...

If wave pools, and the parent companies backing them, were depicted as a smattering of stereotyped high school personas, it might go a little something like this: Kelly Slater Wave Company, the jock ...

Do you remember where you were, what you were doing, when you first glimpsed what would later be christened, the Surf Ranch? I do. I was sitting on an ex-girlfriend’s couch in Hollywood, sipping ...