Watch: Shaping Icon Maurice Cole and Co. Surf and Explore South Africa

Jade Eckardt
·2 min read

Sometimes, surfing dreams do come true. Even if it takes 50 years.

That's the case for legendary Australian surfboard shaper, Maurice Cole, and his dream of surfing South Africa's J-Bay.

In a new edit below by a balsa wood surfboard company, Cole and a couple of younger surfers explore South Africa on a two-week board testing mission.

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Captioning its new edit above, called Stick and Stones, Varuna Surfboards wrote:

"Sticks and Stones follows the journey of Jared Mell and Kayu Vianna, under the guidance of Maurice Cole, to surf Jeffreys Bay in South Africa."

According to the surfboard company, Mell and Vianna traveled from Bali with six Varuna surfboards ranging in size from 5'4 to 7'6, and "tested them through rising swells at JBay."

But as surf trips are prone to do, the adventure became about more than waves and it opened the surfers' eyes to the "raw beauty of the people, wildlife, and waves and left a lasting impact."

In the video, Cole says:

"My name is Maurice Cole, some people call me Maurice, the Space Cowboy. I'm sixty-nine years of age, and I'm still surfing, shaping, designing, and having some pretty cool surf adventures.

"So it's always been on my bucket list since I was a young fellow when I was nineteen, so it's been fifty years getting there.

"I didn't get a lot of waves at Jeffreys, or J-Bay. But damn, I got a couple of really, really good ones and it was everything I wanted."

Mission complete.

Now press play above to join the journey.

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