Bobbing up and down in waves that sparkle in the morning sun, the Boys of Late Summer — as they don’t mind being called — look like mechanical toys, as if an unseen hand wound them up on the beach and ...

Canoe surfing, particularly in an outrigger, is an ancient Polynesian tradition. The plastic, cookie-cutter kayaks you find at Costco and lining the beach at Sandals Resorts, those are not in ...