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Traveling Light

Surfer

November 2017

With their new board-sharing platform Awayco, Ace Buchan and friends want to bring the travel quiver to you

- Zander Morton

This is how lugging boards abroad has played out since the beginning of surf travel: Figure out what kind of quiver to bring on your trip, stuff it into an oversized bag, haul it to the airport … and have a panic attack. “How much will they charge me?” you wonder. “Will the boards arrive in one piece?” At the check-in counter, the agent slaps you with an arbitrary charge, starting your trip off on a decidedly bad foot. “Six hundred dollars for four boards? That’s the price of my ticket!”

Tour veteran Adrian “Ace” Buchan wants to put an end to the madness. Six months ago, he and his friend Gideon Silverman had an idea, and they realized that with Buchan’s industry connections and Silverman’s technical chops (he was a product manager at Google at the time), they could change the way surfers travel.

This story is from the November 2017 edition of Surfer.

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