{"id":462373,"date":"2026-09-13T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462373\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:34:37","slug":"marconi-beach-surfer-2-long-rides-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462373\/","title":{"rendered":"Marconi Beach Surfer, 2 Long Rides \u2013 VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WELLFLEET \u2013 It was a pleasant surprise to walk onto Marconi Beach recently and see Ken Merrill, a longtime enthusiastic surfer who we had earlier profiled for having a surfboard museum inside of his house.<\/p>\n<p>There he was, waxing his surfboard and getting ready to go out. We let him finish as we hiked down the beach a bit and back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capecodwave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_1241-scaled-e1789258014873.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16013\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_1241-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Marconi Beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-16013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marconi Beach \u2013 CAPE COD WAVE PHOTO<\/p>\n<p>And then he went out. We thought we\u2019d maybe see him catch a wave for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Well, within minutes he had taken two of the longer rides I\u2019d ever seen. And here they are.<\/p>\n<p>As for his surfboard museum, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/capecodwave.com\/ken-merrills-surfboard-museum-tour-video-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">this five-part video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Please like Cape Cod Wave\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CapeCodWave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cape Cod Wave Magazine covers the character &amp; culture of Cape Cod. Please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/capecodwave.com\/tag\/longform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Longform stories.<\/a> NOTE: There is a paywall for Cape Cod Wave\u2019s Longform stories. The rest of Cape Cod Wave is free. Please support local journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Cod Wave\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/capecodwave.com\/tag\/surfing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Surfing Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cape Cod Wave\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/capecodwave.com\/tag\/wellfleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wellfleet stories.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELLFLEET \u2013 It was a pleasant surprise to walk onto Marconi Beach recently and see Ken Merrill, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-462373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}