Leave it to the Aussies to come up with great nicknames. For humans, locations, and even surf spots – one, perhaps, most literal and apt is the dubbing of Sydney’s most mutant slab wave, Cape Solander, as Cape Fear.
From an early age, Jerome Sahyoun has been on the move. As a child, he could fish offshore in Morocco (sometimes alone) and hunt wild boars with his family.
During this session at Shipstern Bluff, Dylan Longbottom got absolutely rinsed twice. On one, the 50-year-old Cronulla-based surfer and shaper towed in deep only to get ejected over a heinous four-foot whitewashed ledge, pin-dropping his way to the Tasman reef.
In November 2023, the North Atlantic Ocean got angry. A massive storm sent swell hurtling toward Morocco, where Jerome Sahyoun was waiting. Sahyoun spearheaded an all-out effort to a fickle and remote slab off the Moroccan coast.