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Sign the petition link in my bio!

The hustle the heart the legacy and community!! This is @northshoresurfshop at sharks cove! 25 years in jeopardy! I believe we are the community and I have proved the majority supports us!! @kenuifest @wave_of_da_winter_ @live_with_aloha808

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SMALL BUSINESSES MATTER. LOCAL BUSINESSES MATTER. OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR VENDORS MATTER. 🤙🏽

The ripple effect is real. If our businesses at Sharks Cove shut down, our employees lose their jobs, and dozens upon dozens of vendors lose accounts that help support their own businesses and families. That impact reaches throughout our community.

It will take food off peoples tables it will impact rents car payments ect ect! This is not Pono and I believe in my opinion there’s a solution!

Please contact Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Councilmember Matt Weyer. Call them, email them, and respectfully let them know you support keeping North Shore Surfshop, Seamaids Beach Boutique, and North Shore Shrimp Truck in business.

MAYOR RICK BLANGIARDI
📧 mayor@honolulu.gov
☎️ (808) 768-4141

COUNCILMEMBER MATT WEYER
📧 mweyer@honolulu.gov
☎️ (808) 768-5002

Please SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION with your friends, family, and fellow residents across the North Shore and Hawaiʻi.

All we can do is keep asking, keep showing up, and keep hoping we can find a solution together. Your voice matters. Our community matters.
@sunriseshellswholesale @seakissedbykris @alohaproductshi @alohawaterco @alohashoyuhi @gardenandvalleyisleseafood @dakine_surf @heywood808 @moodyhawaii @arakawasurfboards @pyzelsurfboards @lostsurfboards @slaterdesigns @kellyslater @dennispangsurf @aieacopycenter @acairoots @shadesunscreen @stridersworld @propanemanhi @chefzonehi @westoahuagg @olukai @sciencebodyboardshi @mikestewart @americantshirtco @

ALOHA AND MAHALO for standing with us! 🌺

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Folks, if you’re on Maui and want to get the best surf lesson on the island look no further than
@hawaiianschoolofsurfing and give them a follow true Hawaiian Aloha Ambassadors
in Alekai Kinimaka two Kanaka from “Anahola, Kauaʻi”
In the 80s, we all rode for Willis Brothers surfboards one of the most iconic amazing trips we did was to Honolua Bay with the late Great Craig fineman . Jason Majors. Johnny boy. @johnparmenter36 the Willis Brothers and the Kinimaka Brothers! It was an amazing swell Dirk Mouse got the cover of that rings a bell! Well, “Titus and Alekai” definitely
“taught me. Aloha”
taught me respect and also pushed me to be
“a person who understands”
meaning of spreading Aloha! So when the
“Fires happened”
in Lahaina, I worked with @judlausurfboards and we sent over 100 surfboards by plane by boat and by cargo! We wanted to make sure the people who needed the boards got the boards!! Jud mentioned to me that “Kimo Kinimaka”@royalhawaiiansurf needed help so I reached out to him his son @kaimana_kinimaka coincidentally is also good friends with my kids! So gave Kimo a call and organized to send him some boards and this is how we became friends! Kimo actually went to “Waialua high school” in 1980. I just missed him! And I actually have never met Kimo in person, but I feel like family with him so thanks to all the “Kinimakas”so stoked to call u guys all “Ohana”@maluhiakinimaka @maineikinimaka @kinimakasurfing much mahalo to bradah @kimokinimaka

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Please sign the petition so we can continue our legacy here at North Shore Surfshop. We need your help. The link is in my bio. ALOHA and mahalo for your support! 🤙🏽❤️

This is my grandson,

Chas Vehiatua Kalaniohawai’iloa Auna-McNamara

If you have kids or grandkids, you know how precious that time together is. Every moment with this little boy reminds me how blessed I am—and what matters most.

Family. ʻOhana. Legacy. ALOHA.

I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished in surfing. Yeah, beating Kelly Slater twice in one day at Pipeline is a memory I’ll always smile about. But being a good person, caring for others, and showing up for your community means so much more to me.

When I leave this planet, I hope people remember that I did everything I could to support our community, give our keiki opportunities, and help the sport of surfing grow worldwide—starting here in Hawaiʻi, with my heart right here on the North Shore of Oʻahu.

That’s my mission. That’s the legacy I want to leave. And I hope my grandson feels that aloha through the way I live, the things I do, and the time we share.

Our time here is short, and tomorrow isn’t promised. Love your family. Spend time with your kids and grandkids. Help somebody. Leave your community a little better than you found it.

That’s my message today.

ALOHA,
Uncle Liam 🤙🏽

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Aloha ʻohana,

First i want to ask everyone to help Kauai!! I feel for all the small businesses and all the people who lost so much!!

I’ve been a little quiet, but I have good news. Thanks to your support helping us get an attorney, we reached a settlement with the landowner that we’re happy with. We are here, and we are OPEN!

Mahalo to everyone who supported my family, especially those who prayed for us. You helped carry us through a very difficult time.

We still face possible eviction when the City takes over. We support our lifeguards and first responders. Our lives have always been connected to the ocean, and we believe there is room for both their facilities and our businesses.

Please contact Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Councilmember Matt Weyer. Ask them to help keep the McNamara businesses at Sharks Cove. After 25 years, this is more than our livelihood—it’s our home.

This experience has taught me we cannot look away from government decisions that affect our families. Register to vote, speak up, and hold our leaders accountable. Our community, beach access, Hawaiian traditions, and local livelihoods deserve protection.

Mayor Rick Blangiardi
Instagram: @mayorrickhnl⁠
Facebook: Mayor Rick Blangiardi⁠
📞 (808) 768-4141
✉️ mayor@honolulu.gov

Councilmember Matt Weyer
Instagram: @councilmemberweyer⁠
Facebook: Councilmember Matt Weyer⁠
📞 (808) 768-5002
✉️ mweyer@honolulu.gov

Register to vote in Hawaiʻi⁠

Much mahalo,
Liam McNamara & the McNamara ʻOhana 🤙

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Sign and share the petition
25 years of service 25 years of aloha 25 years of blood sweat and tears!

If you want to help with this
email mayor@honolulu.gov
@mayorrickhnl call (808) 768-4141
@councilmemberweyer call him at (808) 768-5002 email him mweyer@honolulu.gov

Mahalo for your support 🙏

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THE REAL NORTH SHORE — 1985 🤙🏽🌺

This is me and one of my best friends growing up, Solomon Kane, at the ʻEhukai parking lot in 1985.

I was 15, Solomon was 16, and we were slangin’ foot-long hot dogs out of our little hot dog wagon! 🌭😂

This was way before food trucks were everywhere on Oʻahu, let alone the North Shore. Before all the restrictions and regulations we have today. We were just teenagers working, surfing, making a few bucks and living life on the North Shore.

Solomon comes from a deep-rooted Hawaiian ʻohana. Many old-school North Shore people will remember Maui Loa and the Kane family. They had property around Rocky Point, Pūpūkea and near Foodland and were our neighbors growing up. Rest in peace Maui Loa. 🙏🏽

Solomon and I went to Kahuku together. We surfed together, partied together, worked together and, yeah, got into a little trouble together. 😂

Our crew included Chris Angel, @eringrabarek Kolohe Bloomfield, @rainoshayes Tom Tom, Jason Majors, @clarklittle , David Pine, Bobby Nickerbocker, Alan Moepono, Chris @stymie_int Fielding Benson, jasper ,Eric Olson @aloha_labz and many more.

We weren’t perfect — far from it — but I wouldn’t change those years for anything.

Life was different. Fewer rules, fewer restrictions, more freedom, and an incredible group of people growing up together around surfing, family and community.

That was the REAL North Shore.
The OG North Shore.
The legendary North Shore of the ’80s. 🤙🏽

A time and place that can never truly be replicated.

Much mahalo to Solomon and the entire Kane ʻohana for letting me be part of your lives and for being such an important part of mine.

Love, aloha and blessings to everyone who shared those years with us. ❤️🌺

Rest in peace Jason Majors.
Rest in peace Chris Angel. 🙏🏽
Rest in peace Tom Tom
#NorthShore #NorthShoreOahu #Ehukai #Pupukea #RockyPoint Kahuku OGNorthShore NorthShoreHistory

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ʻOhana is what it’s all about.

@browncannoniii 📸

Aloha, blessings, Hawaiʻi, the North Shore of Oʻahu, and surfing have given me more than I could ever ask for.

For me, family comes first. Always. Through the trials and tribulations, the ups and downs, and everything in between, I will always stand by and fight for my ʻohana.

Then comes community. Giving back has always been important to me. If every one of us gave just a little—our time, our support, whatever we can—we could work together to make our community stronger for everyone.

As a business owner, my employees are my ʻohana too. They are incredibly important to me. I will always do everything I can to help them navigate life, support their families, and hopefully continue to live here on the North Shore without being priced out of paradise.

The strength of my ʻohana, the strength of our community, and the strength of my employees give me the strength to stand up for what I believe is right.

And when I believe the powers that be are making decisions that negatively affect our people and our community, I will stand up, speak up, and I will not back down.

Family. Community. ʻOhana. Aloha.

That’s what the North Shore taught me, and that’s what I will always stand for. Links in my bio help! GoFundMe and petition 🤙❤️💯

Much mahalo,
Liam McNamara

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I moved to Hawaiʻi in 1978, starting at Waialua Elementary, then @waialuasurfteam and eventually being blessed to move up to Sunset Beach! Then I was attending @kahukusurfteam

This is one reason why im so passionate about both high school surf teams and will do everything I can to have the kids from those schools get the opportunity they need to live there dreams!!

Pipeline became a huge part of my life.

When I was young, people told me I’d never be able to surf Pipeline. I stood up too slow. I was a white boy trying to find my place on the North Shore, earn respect, stand up for myself, and eventually make a life and raise my family here.

Pipeline taught me lessons that went way beyond surfing.

A lot of my strength, passion, integrity and wisdom came from facing challenges in that water.

When you’re sitting at Pipeline and that wave comes, you have a choice. You can pull back, or you can put your head down and paddle.

You’re paddling into one of the deadliest waves in the world, not knowing whether you’re going to get crushed or come flying out of that barrel and achieve something you’ve dreamed about your whole life.

Life can be the same way.

Sometimes you just gotta put your head down and paddle.

If you really want something, fight for it. If you believe your voice needs to be heard, use it. And when something you love is worth protecting, stand up for it.

That’s what I’m doing today.

To every single person praying for us, supporting us, sharing our story and giving me strength and courage — mahalo. That support means more than you know.

I’ve faced some heavy waves at Pipeline, and right now I’m facing some heavy waves in life. I’m gonna keep paddling.

Much mahalo,
Liam McNamara 🤙🏽

Link in my bio to support the GoFundMe and sign the petition.

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Another beautiful day on the North Shore thanks to each and everyone of you. We appreciate you all these continue to help with the GoFundMe with the petition. These are too very important favors. We are here to request you support if possible do I need a dollar donate five dollars. It doesn’t matter everything helps and we want to invite you to join us in this journey. Thank you so much to everyone. see you tomorrow hopefully we will be open. We’ll see if anything changes but much ALOHA much Mahalo.

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Flat Vs Raw
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#colorgrade #waterphotography #surfphotohraphy

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Much mahalo to @tpattersonsurfboards for shipping these boards out to give to the flood relief surfboard fundraiser! Thanks to everyone who donated @scum13cool @rockit_surf

@masonhycebarnes @bobhurley @mike_and_sandria @kaheevay @stridersworld @peter_mel @darrylfleavirostko @slaterdesigns @jojoroper @jakehalstead_ @drwarreng @tbsportscare @txtubeguru @henry.haze.rainis @peter_distefano_ @dlkjet @camrichards @la.rains @rainbr0 @paddlingforpennies @kristiepie_ and many others sorry if I forgot u!

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