Dylan Graves Tracks Down His Dad’s Old Boards, Gets Mikey Feb To Test Them

The human brain — capable of strange horrors, but also of pouring human emotions into lifeless things. This week, surfboards once lost and forgotten made their way back into the hands of relatives, just before the end. Half-dead, half-forgotten, but alive enough for one last goodbye.

A few days ago, the tale of Saxon McCorquodale surfaced. He picked up a moth-eaten board from a Lismore tip shop, slapped down $20, decided to test it at Kirra during a generational swell, and ended up catching the wave of his life. Then, in a moment of cosmic improbability, Mick Fanning picks him up on a ski and reveals the board had once belonged to his late brother.

Keep it together. Dry your eyes if you need to. This is a safe space. 

Yesterday, Dylan Graves dropped a video that ran along the same thread. He and his brother Josie went hunting for their dad’s old surfboards — the ones shaped at his Florida surf shop, Ocean Avenue. One of those boards, found online, had somehow made its way to Melbourne, Australia — half a world away from its birthplace.

In the video above, the brothers talk story, track down a few more of their dad’s boards, some half a century old, and take them out for what Dylan fittingly dubs a ‘spiritual session.’ Oh, and Mikey Feb pops in for a cameo, too. 

Well worth your time.