Does The US East Coast Have A Pulse?
Some darn good free surfing from North Carolina’s Will Deane.
Will Deane isn’t Noa’s younger brother, long-lost cousin, or even distant relative — but he is from the east coast.
US, that is.
The 17-year-old lives in the sand-rich Outer Banks of North Carolina — a favorite stopping point for last year’s Stab Highway.
Like Noa, he’s a big kid yet surprisingly nimble on a surfboard. Unlike Noa, he does it while wearing an officially sanctioned jersey too.
Will was home in April when he saw a proper swell was making its way to El Salvador. “We saw that there was going to be a good run of waves at Punta Roca just two days before we went,” he said. The trip came together quickly and a little haphazardly, but Will still managed to recruit a friend to be the filmer, or maybe a filmer to be the friend. Hard to say these days.
“We scored some sick waves. Super uncrowded and fun the whole time,” he said of the long, semi-empty righthanders the CT circus had left behind a couple of weeks prior.
Will’s on the Quiksilver program, meaning that when he’s on the West Coast, he gets water time with A-team members like Griff, et al. On the East Coast, he often surfs with Michael Dunphy, who recently got his pilot’s license and has been flying from New Smyrna to the Outer Banks for quick strike missions.
“I haven’t gone on his plane yet,” Will says. “And I don’t know if I would.” Words he might want to take back after watching Dunphy’s upcoming SEOTY entry (dropping next Thursday).
Porto delivers, though. Enough to justify the last-minute mission and its outcome — some pretty good surfing from someone who’s clearly got a lot more coming.
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