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nugs...courtessy of H&H travels...

Fly By

Flying out of the SB airport is always a treat...especially when theres some swell running!

Spooning is For Lovers

I'm constantly amazed by these as the shapes and curves unfold, each facet of the design looks and feels different after each step, the weight, the flex, the rail line.  Its all so pliable...I have found myself on more than one occasion this week hurriedly moving this creature around my shop and stopping the second I pick it up to just stare at it lose myself in it's form.

Other Blog Related Things

Hey kiddies, happy thursday!  

I've been checkin' in on this blog for a little while now and was just contacted by the chap who puts it together, Chris, and I thought i'd throw up a link for you guys to see what him and his buddies are up to in the UK:

http://adventuresintrim.blogspot.com

and just for fun, heres something fun from the shaping room..Yahagi's 9'1 hull w/a concave deck in the arse end:

Blog Post

This is a blog post.

And this is Travers Adler riding pinky:

photo: BDiP's

Batchy

5 hulls down on a foam-filled monday.

First New Model for 2010

This board really has nothing to do with there being a new year, and everything to do with experimentation and inspiration from old movies.

Trevor and I have been keen to shape something new and funky for a couple months since we finished his pintail, and after a 5'2 gull got ordered and shipped off to Japan, we found our starting point!  

We ended up with a 5'4" x 19 3/4" x 2 3/4" super nug, thats being dubbed the Gullet; it began with a Gull template, using the same arc-tail i've been using for 3 years, then we cut a foot out of it and narrowed her down, boxed up the rails, curved out the rocker a little, kept the s-deck and put a trusty and flowing tri-plane bottom on it to keep the hull flow and vibe going, while adding a whole lot of versatility in short and punchy waves. 

Still wearing our glassing duds, covered in dust and wreaking of resin, we packed the finished board into the van and drove about 200 yards as the crow flies from my shop to a top secret wave...The result is contained is here in T's first wave on it last week:

(video courtessy of Morg)

...Fast off the bottom, flowy, and more funk than September.

Trevor got his art-on with the art and we did a pretty intense thrift-store dress-shirt fabric inlay on the bottom...

pic from Brandon^

and a shot of the deck just 'cause I'm in the mood...

(watershot and above photo also from Morg)

I am floored about this board, the response from Trevor so far is really great and we had a great week of waves to test it in, lots of varrying conditions; I'm sold on it and will highly recommend it to anyone emailing me and asking for something hullish and uber fun but not a full-dedicated point wave board.

..This board is all about grooving and finding a fun and clean line...and I'm glad to introduce it as the first new model for next year!

More to come

Trevor's new 5'4 triplane, more to come about it on monday after I gather a few things for a more in depth post...very happy about this one!

photo:MoMaassen

Buckets

Two more photos of the Dreadnought from Mr.K. Novosel, corresponding from down under...he and his crew have been displacing a little bit of water lately.  

The trough on the shot below is what i enjoy most about the bladed designs, no rail drag and very, very, very clean movement through the water:  

Use your rail, much?

Keith Novosel shot me some pics of his 6'9 dreadnought being ridden in Oz, many more cool shots to come, this one particularly caught my eye!