Hang Ten for Lake Michigan

Surf’s up Dude, well, it could be very soon at five Lake Michigan beaches in the Chicago Area thanks to HOW’s very own surf enthusiast Vince Deur. Deur has been lobbying the city for some time to decriminalize lake surfing.

“There has been a lot of resistance to surfing in Chicago, going back more than 20 years,” Deur, of Grand Rapids, Mich., told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Surfing has been outlawed in Chicago for decades. “Now that we have a toe in the water, so to speak, we want to do it right and keep a good thing going,” Deur said. “Surfing is not a crime.” As part of his efforts to spread his enthusiasm for Great Lakes surfing Deur has made an impressive film called Unsalted and he started the Lake Michigan chapter of Surfrider – a lobbying group focused on surfer’s water concerns – in 2007.

The Parks have agreed to take steps to allow surfing between Memorial Day and Labor Day and they are considering leaving one beach open year-round. Some of the best Great Lakes Surfing happens in the Autumn and sometimes the winter when storms ravage the waters and create significant waves. Go Vince!

• Posted by Tiffany Danitz Pache on May 15th, 2009
• Tags: Chicago Sun Times, Great Lakes surfing, Surfrider, Unsalted, Vince Deur
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