
No way he could pour her glass half empty.

Moore is entering the Walk as “Woman of the Year” alongside Damien Hardman, enshrined as “surf champion,” Mike Tabeling, a “Surf Pioneer” Cecil Lear and Hoppy Starts, “Surf Culture” and others.Ī major honor, in any case, and there is virtually nothing that great shade painter Kelly Slater could say or write to diminish at all. In a year where we’ve lost so many inductees like Greg Noll, Ben Aipa and Rick ‘Rockin Fig’ Fignetti, we’re so proud to honor this year’s group of honorees.” Our goal to celebrate surfing, surfers, surf culture and its history has never been more completely represented than it is in this class. John Etheridge, Surfing Walk of Fame Chairman of the Board, said, “After 18 months of world-wide closures and uncertainty, this year’s class of Surfing Walk of Fame inductees is incredible. Now, she is becoming enshrined on Huntington Beach’s very august surfing “Walk of Fame.” Then, she won the first-ever World Surf League Finals Day, snagging her own fifth World Title along the way. No, The Ultimate Surfer is Carissa Moore and not even 11x World Champ Kelly Slater has had a more successful season than her.įirst, the Honolulu-born Moore won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in surfing. The Ultimate Surfer will air its final episode tonight on ABC television and Zeke Lau will win and one of the remaining female contestants will also win but we all know, and they all know too, that “Ultimate” means “Lightly Above Average” in their case. Or are you a sunshine stealing shady person?Īlso, where do you hide your keys when you surf? This is in addition to our decision criteria that we use to ensure consistency and alignment with what is fair and reasonable.” “We make sure our claims process aligns with regulatory guidelines. His insurance company responded that they would not be buying Grantham a new vanlife because their client breached his conditions of cover. Consider using a surf lock attached to your car.” Grantham has fought, and fought hard, sending his insurance company police missives praising the Surf Lock li’l dangler with inspiring phrases such as “Don’t let shady people steal your sunshine. His van was, he claimed, “his pride and joy” with he and his wife’s wedding rings inside and hopes and dreams of a vanlife future shining bright on the horizon. Vague wording in his policy states that car theft is deserved when the keys are left “within the vicinity of the vehicle.”

And for that I hate the insurance company more than the actual scumbags who stole my car,” he told the Gold Coast Bulletin. I felt like I was treated like the criminal. “When you make a claim you’re just treated like dirt. His insurance company blamed his negligence on the affair and refused to cover the loss. The Coolangatta draftsman went surfing with his wife, recently, one fine pre-lockdown morning and when he returned, his 2018 Toyota Hiace was gone even though he stashed his keys in a Surf Lock device. To be honest, I don’t know who in this western world still has a positive or even neutral impression of insurance companies but Gold Coast local, Andrew Grantham is decidedly not one of them. Don’t let shady people steal your sunshine.
