Breaking what is surely the longest streak of consecutive surfing days in a row, Dale Webster has hung up his board for a couple of months, ending 14,641 days of surfing. Remember that time when it was pumping for 7 days straight? You surfed every day, and at the end of the week, you felt a sense of accomplishment that you'd endured a whole week of surfing. Epic, amazing surfing. That's how how it started for Dale, back in 1975 when the swell just got better and better. After 85 days, the challenge of 100 days was set. Then it became a year, and now it's 2015, 40 years on, and he didn't miss a day. He surfed the day his daughter was born, he paddled out the day his wife died, no matter what the weather, the swell size, the board he had to ride, Dale paddled out and caught three waves, each and every day for 40 years. What a legend! Ending is streak is some mandatory surgery to remove a kidney stone, but Dale's not sad about staying dry for a few months. He threw a huge surf-retirement party on his final day: "It was an all-time hooter. If I didn't have that party and all my friends and family around, this day would have been more difficult." He also made some travel plans, after being locked close to a beach by his commitment to surfing for the past 40 years. Will he paddle out on his adventures abroad? You bet, just not every day. Read the amazing interview with Dale Webster by Surfer Magazine here.

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