Sometimes a particular wave has you under a kind of spell. If you know it’s breaking you feel a compulsion to be out there that’s almost impossible to ignore. For Asher Pacey, P-Pass is that kind of wave.
Pacey has been to the world-class Melanesian right at least eight or nine different times over the last 15 years. While the trips can blur into one round-framed memory, Asher has certainly enjoyed P-Pass in all its moods, from small and perfect, to big and menacing and everything else in between. When a storm system earlier in the year promised to send thick lines coiling towards the North-West Pacific, Asher couldn’t say no to an opportunity to reacquaint himself with his pet wave. “It’s such a unique wave and such a cool place to visit I couldn’t turn down the opportunity,” commented Asher over the phone, whilst driving to his property on the mid-north coast.
Although the winds were less than ideal for the mean-looking long-period swell that clawed at the P-Pass reef, Asher still managed to find a few golden moments on his quiver of twins and a single quad. We figured it was a good time to chat to him about his unflinching commitment to surfing without a centre fin,back to the farm from the Gold Coast after logging a couple of six-hour days at Kirra. “I’m ready to do something else for a few days,” he professed in a tone of surfed-out contentment.
