Clay Feeter brings Wind Tracks back as
Standup Journal

“Passionately following and writing about this special lifestyle, the culture, and the adventure and lifelong friendships we share.”

Clay Feeter, a West Coast surfer since the late 60s and a windsurfer since 1980, was the associate editor of Wind Surf magazine in California in the early 1980s under editor John Severson, founder of Surfer magazine and later under editor Drew Kampion, a noted surf journalist. Feeter also founded and ran the $100,000 DHL Cocos Windsurfing Cup on Guam, the highest purse one design windsurf regatta in history. In 1984, while still with Wind Surf mag Feeter was the first in the world to race on a cambered sail.

A wild bunch exploring an untamed zip code during the Russell’s Ranch, Cape Mendocino, Northen Calif. sojourn for Drew Kampion and Wind Surf mag, 1985, the year Wind Tracks was born. Maui’s Mike Waltze, Berkeley’s Kevin Mitchell, photographer Chris “The Codger” Klopf, Shaun O’Neill (wetsuit mogul Jack O’Neill’s daughter, lying down). Farther right is Dave Nash, Steve West and Clay Feeter.

Clay left Wind Surf in 1985 to start his own magazine, California Boardsailor, which became Wind Tracks Journal, the most spirited, soulful North American windsurfing publication. He sold Wind Tracks to American Windsurfer in 2000 and now is back with Standup Journal, a new era, photo-heavy action and lifestyle sup magazine that also embraces our glorious heritage, pioneering and exploration days.

The Team: A Legacy of ‘Round the Campfire, Standup Journalism…

Fringed by semi innocent bystanders, buddies Will Brady, owner of Oregon’s Floras Lake House windsurfing bed and breakfast (sitting on left) and Kevin Trejo (standing far right), owner of Solo Sports Adventures, Baja are core Standup Journalistas (standing) Tom Byrnes, Glenn Dubock, Clark Merritt, Steve West and (sitting) Clay and Kurt Feeter.

Joyce Bilodeau, Co-Publisher – Center Barnstead, N.H.
Joyce Bilodeau is Standup Journal’s Co-Publisher, Orchestrator, Business Manager, and Clay’s wife, soul mate, and paddling partner. Joyce’s life history is defined by an array of outdoor activities including camping, hiking, running (including two marathons and the race up Mt. Washington), biking, kayaking, skiing and snowshoeing. Growing up on the water, both lakes and ocean, Ms. B. has always been secretly searching for her inner Gigit, wanting to surf since she was about eight years old. When she and Clay met, it was East meets West: the perfect fit. Together, along with more water time, Standup Journal also grew. While he was creating the Journal, she was a full-time nurse at Concord Hospital working in the operating room. As the Journal grew, “Bilodeau” eventually went from full-time to a part-time position at Concord Ambulatory Surgery Center, and finally working just one day a week as a nurse and full time as co-publisher of Standup Journal. Joyce says, “I love being a nurse and helping people, and am fortunate to be able to have two jobs I love.”




Glenn Dubock, Assoc. Publisher/Photo Editor – Santa Barbara, California
His voicemail message at Santa Barbara’s Cottage Hospital says Dubock is the media services coordinator, but that’s just his day job. He is one of the preeminent watersports photographers on the scene today. Growing up in the West Coast surf culture and getting in on the ground floor of the windsurf and kitesurfing boom days, Dubock’s impactful coverage began even before he extensively photographed the ’84 Olympic Games. Glenn’s images depict a deep knowledge of the sport. In 1985 he shot the first cover for California Boardsailor, our mag that would eventually become Wind Tracks. “Dub” is about to celebrate his 30th wedding anniversary with Kathy.




Adam Champagne, Graphic Design/Marketing Director – Somerset, N.J.
Meet our graphic artist, webmaster and marketing director Adam Champagne.  Check out his work at adamchampagne.com  Adam is a New Hampshire native who went off to study graphic design in New Jersey and still lives there today. While attending college he ran the Jose Tejas Mexican restaurant, becoming a proud poppa to son Nicholas along the way, “The happiest single event in my life.” Adam picked up sup on his many trips to New England, quickly learning on the lakes, and advancing to wave riding. His other interests are playing his guitar, travel, hiking, and basically “anything outdoors.”




Clark Merritt, Advisory Board Member – Punta San Carlos, Baja, Mexico
Surfing and windsurfing are safe havens for characters. We guess that’s why Clark Merritt, AKA, “WildHare,” loves not only those tribal lifestyles but the characters that make them interesting and through his eyes, sometimes bizarre. For years, Clark graced the pages of California Boardsailor and Wind Tracks with Hunter S. Thompson-like short stories and features that amazingly enough were based on his real life Malibu and Huntington Beach windsurf buds; untamable windsurfing miscreants such as Rich Myers and Bob Bourget. Merritt has been toe-tagged as a writer of fictionalized non-fiction and a photographer with a glass eye, he’ll be the first to remind you that a 600mm lens is still mightier than the pen. Merritt has more recently taken refuge in what he calls Nunca Nunca Land and we still know as Punta San Carlos, Baja where he hosts the Standup Journal Club House and press room. Something you don’t know about Clark: Growing up as a zit-faced teenager in Washington, DC his rock and roll band was paid to play for Hubert Humphrey’s election night festivities. Clark showed up–late!–still dripping wet from the afternoon surf sesh!




Kurt Feeter, Advisory Board Member – Rio Vista, California
The original Feeter family windsurfer Kurt first grabbed a boom the summer of ’79 when he and twin bro Clay left their San Francisco area homes to work construction at Park City, Utah. Kurt moved to the breezy Sacramento River Delta town of Rio Vista in ’85 and was a valuable sounding board as Wind Tracks mag grew throughout the ’80′s and ’90′s. Kurt’s always there to remind us the importance of sticking to our water roots, and if full of one liners to keep us on track, like: “the older we get the better we were.” His day job (until it’s time to go paddling) is running Feeter Construction Co. It may be safely said he’s remodeled a quarter of the homes in Rio Vista.




Steve West, Advisory Board Member – Santa Cruz, California
Waddell Creek pioneer and still at it on a daily basis since 1981, Steve West has spent more time in and on saltwater than some of the great whites that frequent his favorite break. While other kids were playin army, Steve rode waves on a surf mat. In the early 1970′s his teenage prowess on a homemade kneeboard earned him fame at Steamer Lane. Hundreds of surfboards, then stock Windsurfers and Rocket 99′s followed. Though his 30 knot hair has thinned a bit, his bottom turn is still enviable. With his keen eye for detail and the memory of an elephant, we’re stoked his words will be gracing our pages again. S. West was the longest running columnist among all the writers who worked for the good old Wind Tracks mag. West’s Andy Rooneyish banterings yielded a near cult following of his “West Side” stories for 15 years. And best of all his tales come so naturally because they really happened! By day S. West is a “drywall engineer,” so he tends to have a lot of white drywall mud on his face, hair and clothes. As he ditches work to paddle out at his favorite cover along the Opal Cliffs, West is too often asked about all the white splotches on his clothes. He convincingly replies, “I’m a pigeon trainer.””




Tom Byrnes, Advisory Board Member – Portland & The Gorge, Oregon
After climbing onto a stock Windsurfer on a placid French lake 25 years ago TB remains demonically possessed by the sport. He lives in Portland and sails the Gorge more days than should be acceptable by anyone with a spouse or a mortgage (Note: wife Lee is also a driven windsurfer when she’s not at her desk as managing editor of Tin House, one of the top US literary magazines). A longtime regular contributor to Wind Tracks, Tom’s work has also appeared in a number of other, lesser publications such as Outside, The L.A. Times Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and Tin House. Ever the trendsetter, he has already bought a burial plot at Punta San Carlos.




Tom Craig, Advisory Board Member – Cayucos, California
Tom Craig, of California’s Central Coast, has spent more time in the ocean than most weather buoys. His credentials are impeccable, befitting the reputations of three generations of Craig watermen. Tom and his wife Laurie raised three children; Chelsea, Courtney and Cody in Cayucos. While the whole family enjoyed surfing, it was the stylish maneuvers of Tom’s father, San O Doug, then Tom, and eventually Tom’s son Cody that put the Craig name in surf history. As co-founder of Surfing Heritage, a Save the Log Foundation and Museum, Tom shares his incredible stories, an irrepressible stoke, and a wild collection of surf artifacts. Living an enviable beach boy lifestyle, Tom lights the way, seamlessly cross stepping into standup with classic, inimitable grace.




Rob Driscoll, Advisory Board Member – Seal Beach, California
Rob Driscoll was born and raised in crop fields of Normal, Illinois. His life has been anything but normal ever since then. The first chance he got, he was in the air at the controls of an airplane. He turned that passion into a career, eventually becoming a Senior Captain for Alaska Airlines. When not checking the surf from 39,000 feet up, Rob and his Flight Attendant wife June can be found on the best beaches in the world. After years of surfing and windsurfing, Rob it totally hooked on sup and rides everyday he is at his home on the shores of Southern California.




John Dubock, Advisory Board Member – Park City, Utah
Roaming the Desert west spreading the sup love is JD’s passion.  A tireless Heartland, flat water advocate, he’s not adverse to poaching sweet point waves with his brother Glenn at Pitas Point, CA.  John writes/edits and matches Clay email for email at 4am to raise the compelling content bar at the Journal.  John is our social media, trade show/event evangalista.
View more at http://about.me/johndubock/bio




Zach Ernst, Assistant Editor — Concord, New Hampshire
Zach Ernst is Standup Journal’s assistant editor. He grew up in New England with access to gorgeous mountains and pristine coastlines—a perfect playground for a guy who just couldn’t sit still. Somehow Zach managed to settle down long enough to attend St. Joseph’s College and the University of New Hampshire, receiving a degree in English and awards for poetry and short fiction.  Since he can’t play all the time, Zach works full time as a senior editor for a publishing company in southern New Hampshire. He also freelances on the side, acting as editorial consultant for a diverse array of clients ranging from startup tech companies to community organizations such as SCCC and CERT. When he’s not busy wrangling words, Zach suffers from wanderlust and enjoys hiking, riding his motorcycle, and adventuring in general. Currently in the process of recovering from major back surgery, Zach is anxious to incorporate standup paddling as an essential part of his physical therapy so he can get back in action!




Nikki Gregg,  Advisory Board Member  — Hood River, Oregon
Most likely you’ve seen or heard of her somewhere. Whether it has been in a SUP magazine, an instructional video or DVD, performing SUP clinics and boot camps, racing all over the country, surfing in Hawaii, running whitewater in Colorado, or paddling downwinders in the Columbia Gorge- Nikki Gregg is everywhere! And, according to her, it’s only the beginning.
As writer Jennifer Holcombe once depicted about her, “Nikki Gregg is one of the innovators of our sport. An all-around water athlete and accomplished whitewater paddler, Nikki’s magic is in the way she blends her experiences, creating NRG Fitness – an often imitated model for SUP-focused fitness and nutrition programs that bring new paddlers and aspiring athletes to the core of the sport.”
Fitness and whitewater prowess aside, over the last five years Nikki has firmly planted herself in the roots of the SUP family tree. Always on the search for new ways to grow the SUP community and inspire paddlers all over the world, Nikki is passionate about expanding and adapting her professional role in the SUP industry.
Recently, Nikki has been adopted as member of Stand Up Journal’s advisory board in order to offer her unique perspective and insight on photos and story direction. Nikki says of her new role, “I am beyond thankful for this opportunity to work with Stand Up Journal. Clay’s enthusiasm for SUP is contagious and I have always enjoyed working with him and his team of experts. “

The rest of “The Team” is You!
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Contact Info:
Standup Journal
PO Box 360 (UPS/FedEx: 16 Ridge Rd.)
Center Barnstead, NH, USA  03225
(603) 209-4343 • Email