It's just over 40 years now since the surf world got its first look at Kevin Naughton and Craig Peterson, the lovable dirt-bag explorers who doubled down on the 

 notion of the Searching for the Perfect Wave. Like Bruce Brown before them, the two Orange County boys went global. Literally and figuratively. The travel articles they produced for SURFER, with Peterson handling the photography and Naughton doing most of the writing, were comic and adventurous, and the surf world debate continues as to whether Naughton-Peterson were more Lewis and Clark, or Lewis and Martin. Both, actually. We quickly and rightly enshrined them as the twin saints of hardcore surf travel. Jim Banks, Timmy Turner, Kepo Acero and all the rest of those friendly, resourceful boardbag-toting nomads with battered passports and no return ticket? Kevin and Craig's salty-haired spawn, all of them.

Two things came to mind while getting Naughton and Peterson's respective EOS pages ready to go this week. 

First, Kevin, in his better moments, surfed like Nat Young's slightly heavy-set brother. In the clip above, starting at 01:05 watch the big man snake his way through a smooth three-turn combination. That is some load-and-release single-fin torque! I'm guessing Naughton snuck in three or more 

 screenings before he and Craig hit the road.

Second, I was reminded that Peterson did a lot of really fine photographic work back in the crowded confines of Southern California. Craig was just 14 when 

 began to publish his shots and was still in high school when 

 photo editor Brad Barrett bequeathed to him Ron Stoner's famous bazooka telephoto lens. Craig let out a barely-pubescent squeal, ran back to Newport, and began firing off A-grade shots of John Van Ornum and Ed Farwell and the rest of the Point locals. Sixteen years old, and suddenly he's on the masthead with Divine, Bolster, and Wilkings. The kid was on a roll.

NAUGHTON AND PETERSON REMIXED: "THE TWIN SAINTS OF HARDCORE SURF TRAVEL"

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