Surfers Ride Giant Board Into Record Books (AP)

[News Manager]

AP - More than 40 surfers cruised into the record books Saturday when they successfully rode a giant surfboard off an Australian beach, breaking the previous world record set by an English team of 14 people in 2003.

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[Charge 7]

Looks like it's being towed in that photo. Not exactly surfing.

 

[chewie_nz]

Looks like it's being towed in that photo. Not exactly surfing.

standard practice now to get "tow in" with very heavy boards for big wave stability...i think that counts as a heavy board lol