Introducing our new summer edition, celebrating 40 years of Wavelength in print.

We’ve been lucky enough to bear witness to an awful lot since our inception in ‘81, so it seemed appropriate to build this anniversary edition around the theme of shifting realities, blending tales of surf culture’s evolution with personal accounts of life-changing experiences and twists of fate.

Inside, you’ll find the stories of a pair of artists toying with the reality of their immediate surroundings, a surfer trying to save the sea from leaching lead and another saved by her time spent in it.

We’ll hunt down the origins of the early internet oddity that is Wannasurf.com, learn of the birth of Ryan Lovelace’s iconic V-Bowls, consider the ever-changing nature of the world’s surf spots and discover moments of dynamism that shaped intriguing life trajectories in Hawaii, Scotland and beyond.