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 ...

or all the extracurricular surf-adjacent antics. This time, it’s the latter. A SUPsquatch + 15-foot Sunset Beach = a good time, with a dash of danger. “So, we’ve got a 16-foot board down ...

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.