As an eager young surfer, Erick van Malssen was transfixed by the surfing magazines’ glossy depictions of adventurers boating to remote tropical islands, where they would ride pristine blue waves with ...

Parker Payne, a 22-year-old professional wake surfer from Dallas, is trailing an elegant Chris-Craft as he ollies, spins, and carves his way across the Sarasota Bay, spouting a plume of frothy water ...