I did a lot of work for the fourth published edition that came out in March-April 1980. Breakout had moved from the publisher's garage to an office on State Street in a somewhat rough section of Carlsbad, CA. I built a darkroom in the new office(the magazine was published in black and white) and did film processing and printing. The darkroom equipment wasn't very good so I did most of the black and white printing at the Palomar College darkroom, where I was a student.
I shot the cover of the issue using the first waterproof camera housing I ever made. It was Breakout's first full bleed cover.
I contributed a couple other photos and wrote one or two articles. I did a couple interviews with pro surfers, pro surfing being a very new thing at the time, including one of the first female pro surfers from the area. I had a lot of skateboarder friends and I covered some local skateboarding action.
By this time, I was starting to make waterproof camera equipment for other surf photographers and left the big money world of surfing magazines. Soon, photos in the surf magazines, including Breakout, would be made by photographers using my equipment. Eventually, I would move out of my garage and into an office next door to Breakout Magazine.
