Big Day

The Wolf came out yesterday and we broke ground on his new kneeboard.

This one is also going to be a flex spoon, but a Velo/Edge board hybrid of sorts...more planing speed on flat sections and slower waves due to the level planing surface in the middle, flanked by two heavy 'edges' that lead to a curved tri-plane.  

This sucker was a whole lot of brainstorming, while it was more than rainstorming outside.

All In All...

Its just a...

'notha brick in the wall.

6'5" Hull/Gun.

I'm sick of breaking my smaller wave boards in big waves.

Full S-Deck, belly and piched 50/50 rails.

Go fast. 

Really fast.

Mininugs

Between epic sessions with Brandon, Nick and Miles, I found an hour or two to sneak away from the shop and get my groove on with my new board...fun surf is fun, period!

Used & For Sale

Albers is selling a 6'6 B3 I made for him a little bit back; very. very. cool board, you need it for this winter :)

http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/spo/1556937249.html

SImplify

Vampire Hull + Pumping surf

photo: DiPierri

Drift Surfing Feature!

A big big thanks for Ed and Chris for their epic work on the DRIFT surfing feature they just put out!

check it out, Click On This General Area, the underlined one, not the bank space around it, that won't do anything...just on the underline part.

Closed My Eyes...

...and I slipped away.

Kyle Albers' latest design, Count Duckula, near completion.

G-10

My new G-10 flex fin, I was told the stuff doesn't work too well for hull fins because of sharpness issues, so i dulled the edges a little and by all accounts over the last few days of unreal waves, it goes really. REALLY. well.  Very springy off the bottom and forgiving off a long cutback...happy happy happy!

I have some more fin panel kicking around and can source more for other fins...if you're interested i'd probably make ya one if you want to give it a go!

Two Macking Swells, in Review:

Late December swell:

Early January swell:

R.I.P. Asymetrichull and Pinky, easily two of the best board i've had in the past two years, you did not die in vein...you took some he-man sized waves on the head and were blasted into oblivion at the same spot, in all of your balls-out trimming and overdrive producing bottom turning glory.

It is more than fair to say they were tested beyond their intended wave-size, which is half the fun of experimenting with shapes, pushing them to the limit and finding the point at which stringerless EPS and ultra bladey railed, 1/16" bass stringers don't live through.

This isn't about building myself the perfect board every time, it's about trying new things, finding new lines, new techniques, and new boundaries...and re-building my quiver before me and the boys waltz into waves like that again...........

WIN!

Surfing win!  

All weekend long, never more than the 4 of us...Brandon shot this one of those days, I thought it was cute.