Finssssssssss

Layed up a smoke colored fin panel today. going to be itchy tomorrow.

Update: product of itchiness and their respective hulls.

Shapin!

Making of a Slayer from Neska! Productions on Vimeo.

More Surfing Adventures South of the Border

I am living my big wave stoke through some bros who are charging serious waves in Central America on some boards that I built - I may not be charging but at least my boards are!

Storkyyy,

I did the unthinkable and possibly surfed chandlers last wave. I didn't think it was possible but I buckled him at outer reef pulling into the 2nd section barrel which went bone dry slamming the two of us into a dry slab of slate rock. Somehow I escaped relatively unscathed besides a solid hipper and minor abrasions, and i thought chandler would be ok too... until the set behind was even more monstrous and upon my scramble out if its grasp it slammed us again obliterating chandler into two and stripping glass all the way to the fins, making fixing it not really possible. I feel worse than Ive ever felt for breaking a board both because I was really getting a feel for those heavy footed bottom turns and sheer hellfire speed in the tube, and obviously for sending a special board of yours into boardie heaven. I'll be back soon now that im board less and broke needing to get back to real world .... hasta luegos muchacho. -siempunk

I'M BACK!

We had an amazing trip - the beauty of the land and sea and the openness of the people in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes is indescribable. Heard the waves were fun here the other day - we scored some pretty fun surf up there too!

NE

headed up to maine and points north next week - cant wait to lounge in some cool weather, eat some lobsters, and hopefully find a couple glassy little peaks like this one (photo courtesy of magicseaweed.com)!

Shredding with the Boogie!

Homies ripping it up on some old boards

cool to see some yellow old hoppers making it from one summer to the next and still catching the eye of the photogs (from mike @ www.follysurf.blogspot.com)

Time to put on the rollerskates

just got these blanks (custom glue-ups!) from US Blanks today - this batch of logs is going to keep me busy for a while. half are staying around here and the other half are going to make a fantastic voyage down to the sunshine state. keep your eye on these diamonds in the rough - there are going to be some very special sleds coming out of this heap of foam and wood.

OLDIE

Sneaking around a local pawn broker yesterday and came upon this - a board I made in '06 - from the first batch I made after coming back from hawaii - in the wake of the clark foam closure. used some blanks from a company starting up in flordia. talk about some shitty foam. this board has sucked in like crazy over the years. always fun to find things like this.........

BOOST

bryant (http://www.thomasbrothersblog.com/) captured a cool little moment of me last week trying out a new board in some super fun glassy wedges. this one looks weird with a flat deck and drop rails and 4 skegs but it really suits the way i like to surf - stoked!!!

Bryant sent over a sequence of the above shot and another pic - thanks Bryant! man that was a super fun morning of little wedges!

Tricky Fishy

Is this a fish? It sure doesnt look line one.......Designed to give the fish to people who do not like fishes hehe

GROWIN'

some new shapes sprouting out of the shed

and some papaya seeds sprouting in the garden!

SHAPIN'

Cuff Gleaton came by recently to take some shaping photos - here is a cool one of a little finger plane taking down the excess wood after a glue-up

Now this is a beautiful batch of boards!

PLANK

paulownia (from swansea), beeswax(from johns island), and raw tung oil! au naturel......

I jumped out of a plane

I have been in need for some major excitement so when my co-worker Jared asked me if I wanted to go skydiving with some of his friends I was totally in. We drove up to Walterborough to this stereotypical backwoods southern operation, complete with chained up rottweiler. Once you take the fork to the right on HWY 17 towards 'the borough' I think you immediately go back in time. Pretty awesome.

Jared and I getting ready for battle

This plane was awesome. I think it was held together mostly with duct tape and skydive stickers. It sounded like a lawnmower engine and topped out at 80 mph.

My chute depolyed early and i got to parachute from 10,000 ft..........................

not feeling so hot after 100 rollercoaster turns to burn altitude to get back to the ground

this is an irishman that went with us and also a random 87 year old man that jumped with him. what a badass!

the crew

Epic Surf Adventure

Names and places have been changed to protect the innocent:

What's up Richard? Well the big board made it back from TUBE CITY with 3 man-sized caverns. BRO#1 and I agreed that next time we need even bigger boards. 7'6"-8'0" plus! I surfed a 9' Rawson Pipe Gun at massive TUBE CITY and got one wave. Also charged down to the legendary TEMPE ARIZONA WAVE TANK with Jenson Hasset (google him) and one of his bros who are both big wave hellmen who have lived on the North Shore for a while. Surfed huge 12' Hawaiian (they were saying) open ocean WAVE TANK on the 9'0" and caught one wave in 6 hours. They each caught 3 waves. Once BRO#1 and BRO#2 arrived we caught like 6 days in a row of double overhead plus TUBE CITY. BRO#2 only paddled out one or two days there. He said it was too big. The hurricane really messed things up. Short period wind swell and some wind associated with it. We only caught CHANDLER'S POINT "good" one evening. BURKHEARTS was so so. Surfed the big right on the hurricane swell that was long and fun. Surfed the left on a good decreasing swell but was too spaced out and not breaking right. Def. scored more on the CHANDLER'S POINT and BURKHEARTS last year. Surfed COW PATTIES pretty good. Surfed TROMBONES a few times (not a good wave - you basically have a good drop and maybe a turn and then just do cutbacks, not a real point more like going straight. hard to explain). SALSA POINT is where all the alex knost wannabe s and serious kooks go. Decent wave though but a little soft for my taste. Noone was really down there thats for sure. ALEX RODGERS paddled at TUBE CITY even after the onshore wind (one session after I broke my leash and struggled immensly (don't wanna say almost drowned), he did the same came in, got his board, and immediately paddled back out with no leash... he continued to loose his board and go straight back out 2 or 3 times - mad man!)

I broked my leash string after getting caught inside by a set after paddling back out after a wave. had to bail my board and pop - leash string. took 3 or 4 on the head then paddled outside. treaded water for 30-45 minutes deciding on what to do. i got 3/4 of the way to the river and decided to charge in after a set. got halfway and heard a ski take off. shit, that means there is a set. got caught in the impact zone for 6-8 waves and couldn't get in or out, foam is impossible to float it. i heard that the guys try to get rolled by waves to get pushed in. tried that and it worked. more foam and struggling then made it to wear i could stand. good experience to have that under my belt. felt pretty confident after that.

hope all is well and wish you could have been down there

can't wait to try the new quad

Fresh off the boat

Jamie dropped off some freshly sanded/polished boards that I recently shaped.

A 5'6 boost machine, a potato shaped single fin, a noserider bound for NY, and a couple shiny sleek customs for my buddy Rhett, who is doing rogue wave. How cool is the salmon slider?!

Shark Season

Welcome to summer - dont let one of these guys mistake your piggies for a school of mullet!

headed home.....and back to work (doh!)

These are going to Costa Rica without me

PURA VIDA!

Fin Grinding

surfboard smurfboard

here is the 5'10 akila inspired twinnie - super stoked on how it came out!!! painted it for papa smurf....

rocker/foil

spiral vee out the tail - ready for ripping!

SingleFinRippin

jacob+vilano+singlefin = shredfest

WillyT new sticks!

Jamie came by to pick up some blanks and dropped these off. a 6'10 mexican tube rider and a fun little 80's style quad. Looking at these makes me want to SURFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

Hey! Haole to you too

future handplane



some fresh new retros



and this little piggy threw a shaka all the way home



still need to unload 2 SUP blanks if anyone is interested......

DUSTIN

http://www.folioweekly.com/documents/main_dustinmiller.pdf

check this article out - its about my good buddy Dustin Miller (he made the cool little video on the grasshoppersurf.com website)

DRAGON BOAT

I am paddling with the Folly Beach Wahines Dragon Boat team next Saturday (May 14th)! It will be at Brittlebank Park and should be a good time so come on out. Also check out the website and donate some monies to support cancer survivors! http://www.dragonboatcharleston.org/topic.asp?pid=31

Shredding

Kahana Kalama Surf/Travel Reel from Russell Brownley on Vimeo.Kahana is a radical shredder and Russell is a radical movie maker (who also shreds really hard). I think there is a turn or two on a hopper fish in this one which is cool! check it out! (this is from kahanas blog: http://bananajams.wordpress.com/)

Glassing tonight...

cutlap

hotcoat

We have had fun waves lately......

Here is roper getting his little quad in a curvy little spot the day before his wedding. Congratulations Will and Mandy! So stoked for you! (shot from www.follyhood.blogspot.com)

If I told you, I would have to kill you..............