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Pillar Point
Pillar Point at Half Moon Bay is the home of the Mavericks Surf Contest. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Pillar Point at Half Moon Bay is the home of the Mavericks Surf Contest
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Mavericks
How work, access and surfing shaped Mavericks.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Mavericks Beach (or simply Mavericks) is a surfing location in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Before the surf map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Mavericks before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Mavericks.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Mavericks Surf Contest 2010
Surfer takes on a massive wave in Halfmoon Bay during the Mavericks Surf Contest. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Surfer takes on a massive wave in Halfmoon Bay during the Mavericks Surf Contest
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
1999
Surfing reads the same coast differently
In 1999, Sarah Gerhardt became the first woman to surf Mavericks.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Mavericks is recorded at 37.495° N, 122.496° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Pillar Point
Pillar Point at Half Moon Bay is the home of the Mavericks Surf Contest. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Pillar Point at Half Moon Bay is the home of the Mavericks Surf Contest
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
TODAY
Mavericks now
Mavericks remains a specialist big-wave break.
Its power comes from deep-water swell meeting the unusually shaped reef outside Pillar Point.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
Sources for this chapter
Artefacts in order of appearance
Pillar Point
AOD.US.MAVERICKS.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mavericks Surf Contest 2010
AOD.US.MAVERICKS.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Mavericks Beach overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.