When most of us think of surf trips to Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, we think of big barrels, big turns, and high performance shortboard surfing. Which, it mostly is. But it’s also possible to find a fun and more approachable side to this world-class surf zone, as Cord’s Sean Lascelles discovered when he made the bucket-list trip to Macaronis at the end of last year, with a 6’8” Sunseeker midlength and a 5’8” twin fin in his boardbag.

We recently made a Bonzer-inspired 2+1 with a Cord twist for teamrider Noah Lane. But, what is a Bonzer?

In 1978, the debut issue of British surf magazine Atlantic Surfer dropped, featuring an article by John Conway about Cord Surfboards co-founder Peter “Chops” Lascelles.