NAMING RIGHTS
Jul 15, 2020
2 minutes
BY PAUL EVANS
When it comes to naming the Mentawai Islands’ premium right-hander, arguably the finest surf discovery of the modern era, surfing’s traditional power brokers see things a little differently.
“Lance’s Right mate. It’s fucken Lance’s… right?”
I’ve just been put in my place in no uncertain terms by the authoritative growl of Doris.
Tony ‘Doris’ Eltherington is something of an Indo legend, first as a prodigious bowl-cut teen, more recently as a charter boat captain in the Mentawais. Not a skipper, skipper.
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