The Way of the Waves

The Way of the Waves

A BOOK LAUNCH AND FILM NIGHT

In 2024 Bude surfer and writer Martin Dorey set off on his bike, towing surfboards, to surf his way through France and Spain to Sagres in Portugal. Guided by the stories of those who had gone before, including Kevin Cooke, Andrew Cotton, Martin Ward and Graeme Bunt, he visited Europe’s most famous breaks to rediscover the soul of European surfing.

‘The Way of the Waves’ is to be published by Bloomsbury on 11^th September.

Along the way Martin ‘found’ some previously unseen Super 8 footage of Bude surfers discovering a new wave in a remote village on Gran Canaria in 1968. Unable to let it lie unfinished, Martin helped John Cutts, who shot the original film, create a new version of Finding San Nicolas with modern-day interviews.

Martin also interviewed Bude legend Pete Vickery, a surfer who joined Bude Surf Life Saving Club in 1953, made his own hollow wooden board in the 1950s and travelled to Biarritz in 1963. Vicko The Movie is Pete’s hilarious story of getting there first!