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With the advent of tow surfing, sunset has come back into vogue in a big way. The wave barrels and as the tow teams have gotten better and better, so they have learned to backdoor the main peak ...

The North Shore became the obvious frontier for big-wave surfing thanks to breaks like Pipeline, Sunset Beach and Waimea. Meanwhile, the outer islands offered a bounty of other opportunities.