What smells like the ocean and grabs you
with both bracingly strong arms before
planting a faintly sweet kiss on your
forehead? Why Billy Stairmand, aka Billy
the Kid, of course- New Zealand’s raddest
surf prodigy since the platypus upset the
entire field at the Marlborough Masters
contest in 1963. He’s eminently kiwi, through
and through with a disarming smile that
indicates: it’s time to have some fun.
His extra crisp lines through the surf
bring the air and water and he into one
mellifluous extension of the very environment
he’s mastered. Oh Billy, I’d like to take
you home every night. And you can, in a
bottle, named Otto.