Live Now: Finals Day Of The Burleigh Single Fin Festival

There’s nothing like a recurring yearly event to slap you in the face with the reality that another year has slipped away. And for what? What have you accomplished?

Let’s not talk about it. 

This weekend is one to embrace, not to waste thinking about the brevity of it all. The Burleigh Single Fin Festival is here, and for that alone, we should be damn glad we’re alive. There is drinking, there is live music, and it’s been going strong for 28 years.

Rules are few here — the main one being that boards must be pre-1985, weathered and well-loved — much like many of the competitors themselves. 

The comp draws a mixed crowd of former world champs, current CT heavyweights, and seasoned old dogs from the area. Among the former champs are Joel Parkinson, Ethan Ewing, and Taj Burrow.

The waves, it must be said, are lacking juice today, not exactly what the event deserves. But with Vaughn Deadly, Jed Smith, Rabbit, Peter McCabe and whoever else rolls into the booth, it’s worth sticking around just to hear the boys rant about psilocybin, the astral realm, and life beyond the matrix.

Quarters are live — watch now.