HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAT YOUNG!

Paul Witzig's fine 1971 movie Sea of Joy, like Evolution before it, focuses on Wayne Lynch and Nat Young, the world's two best high-performance surfers at the time. Lynch, it has to be said, is the real star of both movies. But there's a long Jeffreys Bay segment in Sea of Joy where Young, older than Lynch by four or five years, just throws back his giant shaggy lion's head and roars. In winding 3...