Whether you’re a dedicated dawn-patroller or pondering your first ride on a wave from your towel, what’s really important is that you look good on the beach this spring. A bright-orange vintage longboard and a big bucket of sunglasses should ease you down that road.
You’re looking at a sturdy nine-plus feet of longboard here, a fiery orange South Bay beauty made by Titan in 1964. It’s the kind of board that’ll get you respect on the water... or leaned just so in your living room.
Say you’re throwing a barbecue on the sand. You’ve got the food. You’ve got the cooler. You... might not have a paint bucket full of colorful sunglasses for anyone who might need them. There. Now you do.
These twill-and-cotton trunks come from Oahu’s recently revived M.Nii, with bright-orange stripes and a button-flap back pocket. Someone also named them drowners. Hopefully that’s Hawaiian for “strong swimmer.”
In other places, people put away winter jackets and bring out spring jackets. Here, it’s time to put away winter wetsuits and pull out... a new long-sleeve spring suit from Deus Ex Machina. It’s made of Japanese limestone rubber for a lighter, stretchier suit. Like linen, only not.
Costa Rican baggage claim is thorny. All those indistinguishable black board bags sliding out at once. Stand apart with this two-toned, natural-canvas board bag from Green Fuz—with double-stitched panels and overlocked ends, even the TSA would have trouble demolishing it.
