For the Locals
Why This Page Exists
“I built this for you — the surfers, the fishermen, and the families who love this coast like I do.” — David Hahn
I grew up between two homes — summers on the Crystal Coast in Atlantic Beach, NC with my mama, Anne Abernathy (Roth) Hahn, and Moorestown, New Jersey with my daddy, Edward Nicholas Hahn. This coast raised me. As a teenager I worked years at Bert's Surf Shop — both the Atlantic Beach and Emerald Isle shops — and I've loved surfing and fishing my whole life.
Some of my best memories are on the piers. My brother and I would sleep out on the old Sportsman's Pier and shark-fish all night long. I won the Spanish mackerel tournament out there. And my mama walked me down that pier more times than I can count — all the way to the circle and back.
These days I live on the Neuse River, and I still love it here in North Carolina. This page is my little gift back to the community — free, always — so you can plan your surf, your fishing, and your beach day, and get home safe when the ocean turns. To God be the glory.
🎣 In loving memory of Sportsman's Pier, Atlantic Beach — gone, but never forgotten.