That Time Dave Wassell Surfed “60-to-70 Foot Barrels” At Outer Log Cabins

We’ll let Dave Wassell, a better wordsmith than all of Stab’s untrained brained combined, tell this scintillating tale.

From his Instagram: In March of ‘07 I witnessed the biggest surf I know to hit the Hawaiian Islands. It was top to bottom 60-70 ft barrels by dark and the swell hadn’t peaked yet. On a jetski ride back to the harbor after work, #ChrisBaker, my partner and I, bumped into @mcnamara_s at Outer Log Cabins. He said “Grab the rope and I’ll get you the wave of your life.” True to his word he towed me into 3 mile long lump of ocean that spanned from outside Pipeline to outside Alligators. When it grabbed the reef 50 ft below, it doubled up like V Land. Easily the biggest wave I’ve ridden and by far the biggest barrel I’ve got to date. As @imaikalani_devault and I did a hike @volcom dug up the footage and did a piece on it. Kind of a what to do when the shit hits the fan kinda thing.