Think Cali holds the monopoly on surfing in the continental US? Kook, please.

“California surfing is garbage,” says Peter Panagiotis, pointing to the Golden State’s hyper-crowded waters and beaches with their overly rude surfer dude ‘tudes.

His aka is Peter Pan — a sobriquet very apt for the young-at-heart 75-year-old, who started at 13, and is still shredding the breakers of Narragansett, RI, just 30 miles due south of Providence, like a wave-wizarding wunderkind. 7

He has similar shivving shares on Hawaii, Huntington Beach, Florida, even France, having been around a tad. He also believes making surfing an Olympic sport was the wrong move. “It seems less cool, same with snowboarding and skateboarding.”

Pan works at the beach town’s storied Narragansett Surf and Skate shop which h

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