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 ...

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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.