20 years old, from San Clemente California, first Cortes trip. For a couple of years you’ve seen all the excitement about Cortes Bank and now you suddenly had a chance at it, what was it like for you going out there?
12.22.03
RUSTY LONG
22 years old, from San Clemente, CA, first Cortes trip. When you first got your first glimpse of waves breaking in the middle of the ocean, what was going through your head?
12.22.03
ROBBING THE BANK
Sometimes you just have to go for it. And that’s exactly what photographer Rob Brown did on the XXL-sized swell that hit the West Coast Dec 17. Going with a low-key, low budget “Odyssey Lite” attack, Brown piled Mike Parsons and Brad Gerlach onto his gleaming new boat along with the up and coming brother due of Rusty and Greg Long, fired up the twin 250 HP outboards and headed 100 miles west from Dana Point.
