Rowan rides anything for PVHS surf team
Jack Rowan doing his favorite thing in surfing, “getting barreled.” Photo by Saul Zaragoza by: Ed Solt Palos Verdes High School’s Jack Rowan took to the longboard, shortboard, and bodyboard for the past four years as a multi-threat for the Sea Kings. In his high school career, the senior’s ability to adapt to his own self-shaped surf craft made him one of the standouts in the South Bay Scholastic Surf Association. Rowan’s introduction to surfing came from his father, who pushed him into a few peelers off Rat Beach. “I was around three,” Rowan said. “It wasn’t until I was eight that I got my own soft top from Dive N’ Surf and really went out on my own.” He always gravitated toward riding equipment that fits the surf situation or break. Up north in Malibu, long period south swell kisses the points perfectly for longer and heavier equipment. “I was really into surfing Malibu, but I couldn’t afford a $1,000 log,” he said. “So I decided to make my own 9’4.” Rowan has shaped ten shortboards and two longboards. “My 9’4” works so good, it’s the only longboard I have ever competed on,” he said. “I have never bought a longboard.” Rowan strolls through causally on the nose on an inside…
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