Tow surfing, in theory, makes surfing big waves easier. With a PWC assist, surfers can ride waves moving too fast for human arms to catch. There’s also the safety element; someone wipes out, a ski ...

Even though some purists would say you could possibly paddle into a wave this size, the skis allowed competitors to maximize their wave counts. Heck, this is a Tow-in contest after all. The surf may ...

Herbie Fletcher has had a career as an innovator, a filmmaker, an artist and a boundary-pushing, big-wave charger who revolutionized tow-in surfing – and now his lifetime of achievements are on ...

Thanks to a chopper, photog Sean Davey was able to get the bird's eye view of all the action. The surf may not have been huge for tow-in standards, but competitors, event directors, and APT officials ...