https://www.nowtro.com/riders daily 0.75 2016-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631723705-L0YA77MJREYN4J0X4HGA/ross.jpg Riders - Aaron Ross Aaron Ross was one of the very first surfers to contact me when this website was pushed last year. After kicking the tires on a number of board designs, he settled on this esoteric model that has enjoyed a minor vogue on the central coast: the G.B.A.M! (as in God Bless Al Merrick) It’s basically an updated version of the sort of small wave tri fin Curren was riding in `84-`85. Widepoint back a bit, with that high hip-wing creating a sharp pivot point precisely between the stance. Glassed by Watermans’ Guild, resin tint by my old friend Greg Martz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631723705-L0YA77MJREYN4J0X4HGA/ross.jpg Riders - Aaron Ross Aaron Ross was one of the very first surfers to contact me when this website was pushed last year. After kicking the tires on a number of board designs, he settled on this esoteric model that has enjoyed a minor vogue on the central coast: the G.B.A.M! (as in God Bless Al Merrick) It’s basically an updated version of the sort of small wave tri fin Curren was riding in `84-`85. Widepoint back a bit, with that high hip-wing creating a sharp pivot point precisely between the stance. Glassed by Watermans’ Guild, resin tint by my old friend Greg Martz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448597921701-60YEGMVQN1YOQ0HYE0VC/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Colin Fujiki Colin lives in Honolulu and waited a long time to have this 7'0" V6 single fin shaped and shipped from California. As luck would have it, he ended up picking it up out in Makaha on his birthday. 7'0" X 20.375" X 3.0" US Blanks 73A SuperBlue Natural Rocker 4mm ply Glassed and tinted by Kimo Kauihou of Kepuhi Point Glassworks, Makaha, Hawaii https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448601576705-HJDOK7SV4XK0XKR8GRQV/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Mila This 10'6" Beachboy Model paddle/surf board was commissioned by Steve "Big Slide" Schirmacher for his gal, Mila. For her entrée into ocean sports I designed an all-around cross-country paddle vehicle and clipped off the tanker ears for smooth entry and Teflon chop-busting. 10'6" X 29.0" X 4.75" 1.5lb EPS; epoxy glassing by Ryan Martz at Watermans' Guild https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448515700394-4B80P8RN7XOH2ZX43WEH/image-asset.png Riders - Jon Piper Jon's "Wasabi PSV" (Paddle/Surf Vehicle) is still a mainstay of his surfing peregrinations far offshore Kailua on O'ahu. Born, designed, shaped, and glassed a coconut's hurl from the blue Makaha water, the PSV is a time machine that restores olo glide and regal stances and is inarguable proof bolstering Phil Edwards' statement that "I don't care what anyone says about the shortboard being faster -- on a longer board you end up further down the beach." 12'0" X 21" X 5.5" single fin, no need cord. Glassed by Makaha charger Kimo Kauihou at his Kepuhi Point Glassworks underneath the kiawe tree out west.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448503527195-E91X0EC70RQGC0APL5WE/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Thomas Kosmoll Puerto Rican waterman Thomas Kosmoll has a huge surf/paddlecraft toybox, including everything from a bodyboard on up to a 4-man Hawaiian surfing canoe. ...And now these winter guns designed as the only kind of wallhanger surfers like him are interested in -- 15' -20' high and green and wet. 6'10" V6 (six-channel) single fin with concaved deck and scooped tail footwells. 21.5" X 2.75" 11'0" Hybrid Gun V6 single fin, combining planshape and design elements from the Brewer school, both 'Pipeliner' era and 1970s North Shore gun epoch. 22" X 3.85" Resinate Fabulosa by Watermans' Guild https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448433637248-NP8Q357NC0TINH41QTUE/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Kelly Khrone KK was one of the original cadre of Makaha surfers to follow Brian Keaulana's lead in turning beachboy-style surfing from a quaint pastime into a fullblown new sport. This 7'10" standup surfboard was built as a travel board -- the mission statement was that this super-short standup board had to fit into a travel bag with a 5'4" Fish and a kiteboard nestled onto the deck. 7'10" X 27" X 3.75" Glassed by Kimo Kauihou at Kepuhi Point Glassworks, Makaha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448599022553-9V3D46HWEGHFSQXN3YCQ/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Walter Peters Ktel Aussie Walter Peters gave me carte blanche to come up with a concept board -- as long as function prevailed over HipsterGram dadaism. These sorts of truncated, oblate surfboards seem all the rage now but there were tons of these things back in the early 1970s. ...However, they didn't have chine rails, a concaved deck, scooped footwells on the tail, inverted spiral vee, and three fins like this 5'11.5" SeaBiscuit. 5'11.5" X 21.0" X 2.35" US Blanks 65A New Red -.5" Nose Rocker 4mm ply Jello mold Ambrosia glasswerks minus the marshmallows executed under extreme duress by Gregorio de la Martz at Watermans' Guild in Santa Ana, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448427313079-ZKNEMKGISOHEINB80EA7/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Mark Sutherland Mark "Sutho" Sutherland is an Aussie surfer and artist probably known best for his hilarious Gonad Man comic series. This 6'6" V6 single fin made it to LalaLand via a route even more circuitous than Gonad Man himself: SBP to SNA to LAX to PER to SYD to LLL itself, where it now forages the feral, furrowed wine-dark seas of the Nambucca. 6'6" 6-channel bottom 19.75" X 2.7" single fin Glam-glassing from the wiley wizards at Watermans' Guild   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448426655604-4FYFVNYVFWOHBVRUD47V/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Lisa Stringer My friend Lisa Stinger can take only one surfboard on her globe-circling live-aboard sailboat. After her beloved Fish was folded, spindled and mutilated I convinced her that an MPegg would prove a much more versatile Desert Isle board, especially with the offroad rally package of a nitro-burning tri fin array. 6’0” X 21” X 2.75" Glassed by Kimo Kauihou iat Kepuhi Point Glassworks in Makaha, Hawaii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448342921393-G5KLCQWQ0SANRZB211E9/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Steve Schirmacher "Big Slide" Steve has commissioned fleet after fleet of plus-size gliders from all sorts of shapers possessing shaping bays longer than 9'. This triptych of dreadnoughts armor plated by the incomparable Watermans' Guild might turn heads in southern California but in Makaha 11 and 12-foot boards are no big t'ing, Bu. From left to right: 7'7" V6 (six-channel) MPegg 17.9" X 22.85" X 15.65" X3.0" 12'0" Makaha Machine 15.0" 23.75" X 13.0" X 3.6" 11'0" Makaha Machine 15.75 X 23.0" X 12.65" X 3.4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448060049995-6IZ7OW76GY6T4J65GTKM/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Neil Piper Kailua, Oahu surfer Neil Piper's boards are so small I can keep him supplied in new boards via UPS from the mainland -- just need one guitar box, eh? Neil's dad Jon is a good friend who built all my shaping rooms on Oahu and is a veteran surfboard tradesman and all around MacGyver. He glasses all his and his son's boards, including this 5'0" X 16.65" X 1.85" PiperCub Model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448341277814-0XPW6AHHAUUTH54ASH1N/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Tom Carroll Looking back over the past quarter century, it struck me that I have made a lot of boards for Tom, beginning in August 1988 when I was a lowly apprentice shaper under Rusty Preisendorfer. What is most striking, in retrospect, is that Tom was always singularly far-seeing and eager to experiment with new board designs or hybrid branches of surfing. For example, he was the first surfer of his status to queue up for a Stubb-Vector, a Widowmaker, and was frothing front and center for the first standup surfboards that were creating a new paddlesport in Makaha. Still in the Carroll Collection, this Widowmaker was glassed by Watermans' Guild back in the early 1990s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631726703-IO8UP2XID4RJTX0UT8ZO/wieser.jpg Riders - Carl Wieser Carl Wieser is my oldest friend. We learned to surf together in Newport Beach in the early `70s. He was my first paying customer for one of my boards back in 1988. I used the last Clark Foam 85 I’ll probably ever see to make him this 7’2″ X 20″ X 2.7″ ‘Free Ride’ Buggs Model Widowmaker. This Watermans’ Guild beauty is now the reddest board in all of France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447973703310-FLEDQA7G9UMYAFERYCTC/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Pablo Fernandez The surfboard design I feel closest to is my Brewer "Pipeliner" redux, the Makaha Machine. Having the fabled walls of Makaha Point as my backyard for 18 years, this surfboard was my answer to the Excalibur-like task that faced all the greats from Downing to Trent to Noll to the Keaulanas: How to make it from Beal's house up top through the Bowl and into the channel without getting -- as Buzzy remarked -- "bounced off the bottom like a ping-pong ball." Puerto Rico surfer Pablo Fernandez loves these designs, too. He's had a few of these beautifully tinted and glassed Watermans' Guild boards over the past few years, and his enthusiasm for every nuance of shape and cosmetics is infectious. I love working with surfers like him, and it makes the "dust, debt and tears" of being a backyard bespoke surfboard builder worthwhile... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447632070481-WHL75TW3AV00GXILPSOA/valiere.jpg Riders - Evan Valiere Kauai’s Evan Valiere with his 11-foot Doomsday Machine. The good thing about vintage component single fin guns like this is that they catch the wave so easily; the bad thing is that they catch the wave so easily… gulp! This is out of the the classic 113D blank with a center strip cut out and glued up with the old Clark Foam 112A bottom rocker centered – a Pat Rawson bottom curve and it don’t get any better than that. Glassed by Imua Fiberglass in Lihue, Kauai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631725412-1XSOT4EDUQUX36L8FBYE/weeden.jpg Riders - Tom Weeden Tom Weeden picking up his new 9’4″ X 23″ X 2.85″ single fin longboard at Moondoggie’s in Pismo Beach. This sort of longboard design I refined during my years in Makaha, where classic-style big boards still have to handle juice and rip. Glassed in Ventura by Russell Hoyte Designs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631716269-1DXODRAANX1G6CKG10W4/brooke.png Riders - Brooke Johnson Brooke is a surfer/shaper herself and thus is able to zero in on exactly what sort of surfboard she wants. This 5’10″ X 20.5″ X 2.6″ became a convertible quad/single-fin model so she could share it with the boyfriend. The fabric inlays were her idea, of course… Glassed by Jeff Hull guys at Resist Surfboards in Ventura https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631715613-SJY5FEU0CH7OAIKD3QFQ/guyguy.jpg Riders - Guy Quesada Lazy Whitecap alumni Guy Quesada loves shipping containers and amassing scores of shaped blanks he takes to Jeff Hull at Resist Surfboards in Ventura for glassing and then off to Mexico to break every last one of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631715914-ATRNZLMKS4TLVFICTARZ/jimbo.jpg Riders - Jimbo Jimbo, a Pom Grom from Newquay in Cornwall, showed up in the colony to find that those tobaccy-spittin’ amiable backwoodsmen knew a thing or two about makin’ surfboards. This 5’8″ X 19.0″ X 2.375″ MicroStubby was waiting for him at Watermans’ Guild, arranged by his mate Kirk Gee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631716238-7KA486VG8SI8VBK1W6AM/johnmcmahon.jpg Riders - John McMahon Central Coast Alumni from the Early Years, John McMahon, wanted a surfboard that would perform like a Leatherman tool and do it all. This 8’6″ turned out better than anticipated, according to John. The active ingredient is an evenly-foiled thin and boxy-railed profile and neutral rocker. Glued up the US Blanks 95M with the 92A bottom rocker and thinned it down to 2.35. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631716685-7TC6R2YOJ744JLX4RIOY/johnson.jpg Riders - Erik Johnson Moondoggie’s Beach Club alumni Erik Johnson has had dozens of Aleutian Juice surfboards over the past 25 years. He lives in San Diego now but still needs to come up to SLO now and then for the Early Years mojo, and get an ice cream headache or two before taking a brace of freshies south to warmer climes. These are classic, time-honored EJ models: A vintage 90s-style Bali Pin at 6’6″ X 18.8″ X 2.375″; and a skatey little Occ-ster at 6’0″ X 19.175″ X 2.2″ Glassed by Russell Hoyte Designs in Ventura https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631716638-H2KLUT7CB8MAJNJ4JSV3/Kauihou.jpg Riders - Shaun Kauihou Shaun Kauihou with 6’4″ X 21″ X 2.75″ MP Disc, glasswork by Kimo Kauihou at Kepuhi Point Glassworks in Makaha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631716917-DSBE98KNMWFFD1DYWS63/kerley.jpg Riders - Blair Kerley Blair Kerley was so keen on modernizing the sort of Brewer/Parrish single fins he remembered when he worked at the Lightning Bolt store in Honolulu, it was infectious. I told him I knew just the blank – the wonderful Rawson 610A from US Blanks. Love this blank for period single fin volumes and foils. 6’9″ X 20.5″ X 3.15 Blue resin tint on a six-channel? Who else but Greg Martz at Watermans’ Guild!   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631724367-KMBXXPR7ZEUMR2ZV023W/renneker.png Riders - Mark Renneker Noted polar surf explorer Dr. Mark Renneker hates golden poppies – hates ‘em! The spring wildflowers usher in the death-rattle of the winter surf season, and Renneker typically staves off the onslaught of fog and onshore slop by doing two things: going to Alaska to seek out more winter, and ordering a bunch of big wave guns to fondle through the long waveless summer. 9’8″ X 21.5″ X 3.35″ triple-stringer single-fin 9’0″ X 20.85″ X 3.175 triple-stringer single-fin Custom glass on fins by Brian Bills of BK Rudders on Oahu. Renneker’s armada glassed by Watermans’ Guild, clearly running low on red paint… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631718794-MUN93FQC087BHARSNH7S/leonard.png Riders - Nick Leonard There comes a time in every surfer’s life when he needs a Desert Island Surfboard. Kauai surfer Dr. Nick Leonard wanted a Swiss Army Board and so I suggested a design I have used many times for another sawbones, Dr. Mark Renneker of The Most Frequently Frozen Surfboard fame – the “Vector Cuda”. Essentially a refined and narrow version of the Stubb-Vector, this 7’2″ X 20.375″ X 2.75″ all-arounder can be a gun, a hybrid shortboard and even a -gasp! – turbo-charged funboard. In any situation, Cessna 205 bush plane or Boeing 767 or even Tacoma shortbed, this is the board to take on the road with you…. Glassed by Watermans’ Guild in Santa Ana, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448596998394-VFGPFD9C76UEOH7A655S/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Gino Andrias This 6'0" MPegg landed in Bali courtesy of Kimo Kauihou of Makaha, delivered to his friend Gino Andrias. Since this is a quad + 1 fin array, I suppose Gino is speedloading a cup of strong black Sumatran coffee in order to up Michael Petersen's jittery hand jive to 78rpm. 6'0" X 21.0" X 2.7" US Blanks 65A New Red -.5" nose rocker 4mm ply Resin swirl and everything else soup to nuts by Kimo Kauihou out west in Makaha, Hawaii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631718969-84HFGWUQ3KYLF5W2SDDN/lutwin.png Riders - Michael Lutwin A surfboard connoisseur par excellence, Dr. Michael Lutwin possesses a plethora of positively pedigree planks, yet nonetheless craved a postmodern disk shape that actually had forward gears. This 6’6″ X 20.5″ X 2.6″ 6-channel “MPegg” Widowmaker-class single-fin was responsible for that sonic boom you heard on Kauai a month or so ago. Custom Aleutian Juice Widowmaker fins by Brian Bills Glassed by the fearless, peerless, and frequently futless, Watermans’ Guild https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631722287-QJHEGA18A33OLL3BXOK1/moore.jpg Riders - Jeff Moore Jeff Moore wasn’t messing around this past fall – 4 new surfboards he wanted and 4 new surfboards he got. Thanks to the folks at Watermans’ Guild they are even watertight. Left to right: 6’3″ X 20″ X 2.65 Occ-ster; 6’3″ X 20″ X 2.65″ MicroStubby; 6’4″ X 19.9″ X 2.75″ travel module; and 6’7″ X 21.5″ X 3.25″ MP Disc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631722495-O63NXOD0NB9RLCL6CHIJ/phillips.jpg Riders - John Phillips John Phillips lives in North Carolina and wrote asking about upgrading his small wave game. This Malolo design is stuffed with speed-gathering components and sharp-breakaway edges, including a chine rail from wing to nose. Rusty Preisendorfer used to make small wave grovelers for Peter Townend a lot like this, and I drew from that inspiration. At 6’0″ X 22″ X 2.825 with a twangy quad array, this board should skim on the water like a flying fish. Glassed super light and tight by Russell Hoyte Designs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1448503137525-L84849VRMAVFYU3IVJUJ/image-asset.jpeg Riders - Suzy Kim Suzy lives in South Korea and works for Patagonia. She was able to pick up a custom single fin in Ventura while there on a busman’s holiday there. This 5’11” V6 is a shorter version of the board I worked on with Andrew Kidman for Steph Gilmore a few years ago. 5’11” X 19.375” X 2.4" Glassing by Hoyte Designs in Ventura, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631724341-UMVAXMENHSEV51OZ1Y29/sako.jpg Riders - Colin Sako This is a 10′ X 23″ X 3.25″ Makaha Machine, essentially a modernized version of the classic Brewer ‘Pipeliner’ model which was the prototypical big wave gun back in the mid 1960s. I’ve been making these boards as both full-race guns and streamlined modern longboard shapes since 1994. Colin Sako, whose board this is, and his brother Craig have got a number of these boards over the years. They are both astute connoisseurs of surfboards past and present and it is always great fun collaborating with them. Glassed by Russell Hoyte (pictured here) in Ventura https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631724632-K0JF74TCDK16CQTPXMUY/simpson.jpg Riders - Mark Simpson Mark Simpson lives up north where they think the water is colder than Ice Station Cambria, but they do get some darned big waves up that way and so require that rarest of boards today – a good, solid 7’6″ winter gun. This Widowmaker is 19.375″ X 2.65″ and Mark reckons it was like Christmas morning when he took delivery of it atWatermans’ Guild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631714964-BLW2QFOOJES15PM23W9P/adler.jpg Riders - Luke Adler This 5’11″ X 19.75″ X 2.0″ MicroStubby for Luke Adler of Moondoggie’s Beach Club was the first Incide blank I’d shaped. It’s 1.7lb EPS with a graduated carbon fibre tongue laid up in the center of the blank. I figured a thin, even-foiled and boxy railed Stubb would benefit from the lively flex pattern of this innovative new core technology. Glassed in San Luis Obispo by Central Coast Fiberglass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631724634-5XWLLY1G4JZTRTSQQ8MH/stott.jpg Riders - Russell Stott Russell Stott has been getting his knee machines from me for a number of years now. They aren’t just short stubby surfboards – you have to design in factors such as the forward weight distribution and vastly different leverage of carving in a kneeling as opposed to a standing position. 6’0″ X 22.5″ X 2.65″ Glassed in San Luis Obispo by Nick Cooper at The Craft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631725293-LYDJDKVSVDIFB5D5H3E7/tresher.jpg Riders - Tresher Trio New modules for the Tresher Trio: Ehren, Rick, and Devon. Left to right: 6’10″ X 21.5″ X 2.85 Stubb-Vector for Rick; 6’5″ X 19.2″ X 2.6″ Widowmaker for Devon; and a nifty seafoam-turquoise 6’8″ X 19.25″ X 2.5″ Widowmaker for Ehren. Terrific meeting this surfing family when they came to San Luis Obispo to pick up the boards. Ehren had ordered the 6’10″ as a surprise birthday gift for dad, Rick, to replace a favorite but long-deceased Vector – and somehow the element of surprise survived the months-long wait for Der Tag. Glassed by Central Coast Fiberglass.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631716857-E61TJ4D1FPLV76Q8QTJ3/Knoernschild.jpg Riders - Joe Knoernschild Joe Knoernschild has been getting boards from me for many years. To take possession of this 6’0″ X 21.65 X 2.9″ ‘I’a ‘Auana (modern Fish) he drove all the way up to San Luis Obispo from Palos Verdes, carefully packed the shaped blank in his car, and sped back south to get it to his glasser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447631722866-RR4W9YHDIER80B3EDV4H/pilgrim.jpg Riders - Pilgrim Surf Supply How boards are displayed in the Big Apple… These replicas of the 6-channel single fin I shaped for Stephanie Gilmore to surf in Andrew Kidman’s new film, “Spirit of Akasha,” were laminated by Greg Martz at Watermans’ Guild and stocked here at Pilgrim Surf Supply in New York City. https://www.nowtro.com/biblio daily 0.75 2016-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447742798684-87RUVT6PP2QH4ZECH1HB/desk.jpg Biblio https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/2016/11/28/myths-at-the-millenia monthly 0.5 2016-11-28 https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/2016/2/5/singling-out-singles monthly 0.5 2016-02-06 https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/a-reading-list monthly 0.5 2016-02-06 https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/2015/11/16/why-we-surf monthly 0.5 2015-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447828251797-FA7PHUL4Z7CR5G0EWB11/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Why We Surf Scooter Boy Kaopuiki and Sandy https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/the-coppertone-archipelago monthly 0.5 2015-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447822646610-ZSDHVCNIGZCJVD5Y5XAJ/image-asset.gif Biblio - The Coppertone Archipelago https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/shaping-flippys-board monthly 0.5 2015-11-18 https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/jurassic-clark monthly 0.5 2015-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823753557-S01W10TXXXYENJR3Q0K6/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823321937-67NQZZ1IRNI9E4N5ROZQ/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823348402-TQQFGMXGSKSU52WXLETC/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823588490-D2DEIMO5SNN1ZT6B2KGP/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823702987-3MLXGB2BVST2JNP7V7GQ/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823499296-JL7KCFHFMJEDNGCXOREQ/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823792651-WK7I26ZNV3ICD2J7ESG7/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823685061-LVQ3J1RTCV8HX6YRGZDA/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823617664-DWQ3UO8B9BR7JU0NEYJW/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823813718-JPQZ6MQXNV7B932AXU0Y/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447823639767-71SPAXGK3V5QOU6EI1DM/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Jurassic Clark https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/2015/11/16/farewell-to-arms monthly 0.5 2015-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447824193018-OTTNW2KFGNBBP3C1JN05/image-asset.jpeg Biblio - Farewell to Arms https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/2015/11/16/a-desert-island-blank monthly 0.5 2015-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447822909082-HPBHK94HAWVAFCYW8RWF/image-asset.png Biblio - A “Desert Island” Blank https://www.nowtro.com/biblio/2015/11/16/making-surfboards-in-the-21st-century monthly 0.5 2015-11-18 https://www.nowtro.com/logos daily 0.75 2015-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447735126294-S9OZPZ6PD17DGT7R263C/image-asset.png Logos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447735126294-S9OZPZ6PD17DGT7R263C/image-asset.png Logos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447735278517-ZNUC6LS4PSC8N6UU5QNV/nowtro640.png Logos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1447735224386-NCMJXTN7YWYDPW41U8B0/trianglelogo.png Logos https://www.nowtro.com/early-years-pics daily 0.75 2016-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449382690955-TNLXPNFU2V15Q2324MM3/img007.jpg Early Years Pics - Early Years Filmmaker 1974 On a month-long coast highway road trip with mother and brother and dog from southern California to the Canadian border, recording it all with my spring-wound 8mm movie camera. Note John 'Bam-Bam' 'The Terminator' Parmenter in the passenger seat, vibing hard... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449382690955-TNLXPNFU2V15Q2324MM3/img007.jpg Early Years Pics - Early Years Filmmaker 1974 On a month-long coast highway road trip with mother and brother and dog from southern California to the Canadian border, recording it all with my spring-wound 8mm movie camera. Note John 'Bam-Bam' 'The Terminator' Parmenter in the passenger seat, vibing hard... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449383738585-1H0RLVFFSE3EVOUP16B5/parmenter-ohana-newport.jpg Early Years Pics - Newport Point 1974 18th Street on the Newport Peninsula in the early 70s -- not Echo Beach but the Newport Pipeline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449384073413-3V08OMOUZMQLAPH3OEHN/Cayucos+Pier+Cheater+Five.jpg Early Years Pics - Cayucos Pier 1979 Cheater-five on a 6'4" Lance Collins Wave Tools twin-fin, senior year at Coast Joint Union High School in Cambria. I worked the entire summer of 1978 in Costa Mesa at a friends landscaping company, room and board included, to buy that surfboard in the wake of Mark Richards' bombshell twinnie. And each fall us Cayucos 'Onlies took our hard-won savings down to Al's Sporting Goods at the foot of the rickety wooden Cayucos Pier and purchased new 1/4-inch thick O'Neill Animal Skins, which we rarely doffed during daylight hours over the next year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449385797951-VGNCBGDFYK9AIB2OKQM2/parmenter-sea-kayak-central-coast.jpg Early Years Pics - Big Sur Rock Garden 2004 'Yakkin it up! When the sit-on-top rotomolded seakayaks came out in the mid 1980s we immediately adopted them on the rugged coast north of San Luis Obispo, to explore for surf, camp on deserted beaches, and seek out epic firehose sluices in rock gardens like this one in lower Big Sur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449546133553-BY8KIMA6GR1F6P1359AJ/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1977 - Coyote Lines Backpage ads were inexpensive .. well, free ... back in the 1970s when you are the publisher of a surfing magazine and the circulation of said periodical is 1. ...And production design involves only a black marker pen and half of 6th period Constitutional Seminar class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449546561771-9LIU9N96Y2RLQ14YTBNO/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 2003 - Makaha Beach Buffalo's Big Board Surfing Classic is held each February out in Makaha, and features surfing forms seen only there, such as the Two-person Team Surfing Division. My partner in all the team events was Brian Keaulana, one of the greatest innovators of all time in ocean sports and water safety. More importantly in these demolition derby heats where two surfers must ride closely together in synchronized surfing, Brian is a Hollywood stuntman: Most of the events at Buff's meet, whether in the enforced silliness of the Team Bodyboard event or the chariot race lethality of canoe surfing, require the participant to be part waterman, part stuntman, and part rodeo clown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449549829389-SBB9SVEJEFSCN91WNCNB/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1987 - Baja California Larry "Flame' Moore (who shot this photo) was a classic character and indefatigable instigator of expeditions. Todos Santos, shown here. Cortes Banks. Offshore islands a Boston Whaler couldn't reach in a month of Sundays. This 1987 surfari to Todos included Mike Parsons and Tom Curren. Tom and I rode single fins. This one was a pre-Rusty Rusty, a Canyon 7'10" that would have been right at home in 3rd reef Sunset in 1975. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449550661754-RMNLR1ARGBG05UIN6HMF/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1979 - Cayucos, California Still in high school, still trying to mimic Mark Richards' unique body torque, on a 6'4" Wave Tool twin fin (the same length as MR's bombshell twinnie). Matt George shot the photo during one of his many skate or surf injury periods of dry-dock. I was into photography long before him, however, and in the school lab were I was on the publications and newspaper staff, I rolled all my own film rolls, developed the negatives, and printed them with all sorts of experimental methods on the school's enlarger. As can be seen here, I was very fond of grain, and used Tri-X exclusively even in bright daylight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449557027511-FUAMQEY6SYV47R6745ET/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 2009 - Makaha Beach The canoe surfing event is the highlight of Buffalo's Big Board contest, which has run every winter since 1976. Out in the Bowl, at size every canoe wipeout is like an automobile accident. There are injuries in every contest. An Hawaiian steersman reverts to full warrior mode. No one holds back or gives quarter in positioning and wave possession. I was Brian Keaulana's ama guy -- my job was to balance the canoe so the ama (outrigger) stayed light so he could steer big sweeping turns, but also to dive on the ama if a huli (capsize) was imminent. This crew was one of the best we ever had. Brain steering, me in No. 3 seat, and Keone Downing in No. 2, with Kaipo Guerrero in No. 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449640121307-V8PTVI2VVTJ29KB94PYX/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1980 - Cayucos, California 6'2" Wave Tools twin fin with the very first large Central Coast Surfboards "CCS" logo airbrushed on the bottom. The wetsuit is an O'Neill LD3, which we derisively referred to as Lipton Flo-thru tea bags, as the icy central California seawater gushed unimpeded through the 4,025 overlock stitch seams. The photo was snapped from the Cayucos pier by my high school surf and filmmaking partner, Craig Comen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449641079151-DKO7C7LHQ9EE1GHJMKK1/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1974 - Santa Barbara On surfari in junior high school with one of the other Newport Point gremmies, Brett L'Ecleuse. It was considered de rigueur then to sport a Russell Surfboards Hi-Cru Tee until it literally frayed and decomposed into rags off one's shoulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449641656521-6PI93OQ6DMMB5D9RMM0R/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1980 - Cayucos, California Cayucos Pier, and the whole of Estero Bay, used to get a whole lot better back in the Early Years. The 1982-1983 mega-storms moved so much sand so far offshore that even now over 30 years later most of the breaks haven't recovered their former glories. None of us kids had heard of Surfer's Ear and we pulled into closeout barrel after closeout barrel trying to imitate Shaun Tomson at Off The Wall. If anyone straightened off or kicked out we cited them for FIrst Degree Tube Evasion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449642337190-W0E9BES0VU2EQ5G45101/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1995 - Hawaiian Islands Getting '10' on a thin, flat-decked Nat Young-ish 9'4" single fin at some sharkwater reef along leeward Maui. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449642609956-O6AVTOIHS950GDQX1N7K/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1999 - San Luis Obispo, California This 11'0" Makaha Machine was shaped for Flippy Hoffmann, as described in the essay "Shaping Flippy's Board" in the Biblio page of this website. "Fan-DAMN-tastic!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450673367679-4U0YUGS240YXBDNB9CLU/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1978 - Newport Beach, California Down in Newport Beach staying at Preston Murray's house for the Katin Pro-Am Team Challenge, January 1978. I brought him a new Aleutian Juice skateboard deck made in woodshop, for which he obviously traded me the wearing of his extremely suspect Primo Sea Suits springsuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449724427332-QO0E7XVGOVF61XSD9GIG/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1985 - South Coast, NSW Robbie Bain became my closest friend on the ASP circuit. In 1984 when he was with the Australian amateur team in southern California for the World Amateur Titles, I rescued him from Huntington Beach and took him straight up to the Big Sur coast, if for no other reason than to show a homesick Aussie that California had more wilderness and pine trees than Jack-In-The-Box clowns leering over concrete piers. Bainy returned the favor the following year in Australia and shared all his bushcraft on the fabled coast south of Sydney - proving to me that Australia had more going on than the Manly Courso. Far down the southern coast of New South Wales is a reserve where kangaroos mill about on the beach, and are tame enough to hand feed. I seem to remember they loved Puffed Rice cereal best... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450673718008-EVCCPSB49EUAD9JXR6KM/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 2000 - Big Sur, California The crew at Moondoggie's Beach Club, a surf shop in San Luis Obispo founded in 1986 by SLO native Randy Adler, embraced mojo and camaraderie in surfing and rejected the trog Taliban. Left to right: Jason Peterson, Matt Mohle, Zach 'Hula' Hartley, Dave Bourbon, and me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449725329829-KADTU9SNICNILVVL8K4H/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1982 - North Coast In the Early Years Admiral Sir Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain led all our expeditions up the coast from the docile reservations of settled parking lot surf zones. For many years it was a custom on New Year's Day to make a foray deep into the Territories and attempt to surf somewhere that had never been ridden. Here Glen Starkey, Craig Comen and me spock a lonely cove on January 1st, 1982. My Cheyne Horan-influenced single fin was shaped and glassed the day before in Comen's garage in Cambria in anticipation of Admiral Chamberlain's clarion call to hit it and hit it hard to ring in the New Year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449726577392-U83NOX5G4EGYJOAUX7JJ/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1990 - San Luis Obispo My first shaping room at the Lazy Whitecap Ranch was a former tack room for the horse stables adjacent the old farmhouse. This board was a bit over 8'0", for Ryk Kluuver, and it maxed out the space ... so it wasn't long before orders for 9'0" and 10'0" guns forced a move into the garage, where I have been shaping for 25 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450671285931-2N4OB2XY6HW0Q2Q51GS0/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1985 - Cronulla, NSW Australia The Beaurepaires Tyre Southside Open held at Eloura Beach in Cronulla on Sydney's south side was the beginning of my first full year on the newly-inaugurated ASP tour, in which I made the Top 16. In this event I had to surf my way out of the trials, which in Australia meant joining battle with legions of red-hot local surfers unknown to the American glossies but who to a man competed with a tenacity little seen back in the States. My run at the finals ended with a semi-final clash with Aussie wunderkind and Cronulla local Mark Occhilupo, and I had to settle for equal 3rd and a dog's eye with horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450672263838-FJQ7BYWNOGC56EGDSJVC/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 2006 - Kaiwi Channel, Hawaii Brian Keaulana, Todd Bradley, and I created the sport of standup paddleboard racing out of whole cloth, envisioning the establishment of a new regatta-class open-ocean paddlesport to take its place in Hawaii alongside OC-6 and OC-1 and prone paddleboard distance races. This 2006's Molokai-to-Oahu race, 32 miles of sledding down bump and bump in the treacherous Ka'iwi Channel. My partner in the two-man relay race for 8 years was Archie Kalepa, shown here on the ski about to switch places with me and hammer home to Hawaii Kai. Archie was the first person to paddle standup across the Molokai Channel, in 2004. He did it on a rudimentary 12' EPS/epoxy tanker, solo, and it was the Shot Heard Round The World as far as forcing naysayers to take the new sport seriously. Here I am paddling one of the first 14-foot raceboards I made for myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450674579965-YNEMALSBCZ1O5HVRTHVD/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - 1996 - Makaha, Hawaii Riding an 8'10" thin and boxy tri-fin Makaha Machine that was one of the best all-around surfboards I ever possessed. The Makaha Machine design somehow sidesteps being a mere longboard gun, codger gun, or retro showpiece and instead burrows a deep taproot back to Dick Brewer's revolutionary 'pocket rockets' -- but adds modern jet-sled bottoms, rails, foils, rockers, and fin arrays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1452027258478-PCSEZ2DYB61PKNMYKVB9/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - August 1988 - Costa Mesa, California Greg Mungall and me at Mung's Altra S factory with a couple of freshly-shaped and glassed customs for Tom Carroll, to be delivered to him at the OP Pro at Huntington Beach. Here we salute his Royal Thighness with our own Tom Carroll quad displays. Not sure why Tom ordered a brace of boards from a novice shaper sliding down the arse end of the ASP ratings, but suspect he was desperately looking for some homegrown juju to help him beat the "Huntington Hex" he was cursed with for much of his career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1452028228169-JY56QFZFNIXJC3V19IYI/image-asset.jpeg Early Years Pics - September 1988 - Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa The first Widowmaker (far left) was shaped at Rusty's complex in San Diego in the summer of 1988. At 6'9" X 11.75" Nose X 18.5" Widepoint X 11.5" Tail X 2.65" Thickness it was meant to cure Thrusteritis at the fabled righthand point break. When I got to J-Bay in September of 1988 it was a revelation -- for the first time since I left the Church of One Fin I could surf like myself again. 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Note John 'Bam-Bam' 'The Terminator' Parmenter in the passenger seat, vibing hard... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449383738585-1H0RLVFFSE3EVOUP16B5/parmenter-ohana-newport.jpg The Early Years - Newport Point 1974 18th Street on the Newport Peninsula in the early 70s -- not Echo Beach but the Newport Pipeline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449384073413-3V08OMOUZMQLAPH3OEHN/Cayucos+Pier+Cheater+Five.jpg The Early Years - Cayucos Pier 1979 Cheater-five on a 6'4" Lance Collins Wave Tools twin-fin, senior year at Coast Joint Union High School in Cambria. I worked the entire summer of 1978 in Costa Mesa at a friends landscaping company, room and board included, to buy that surfboard in the wake of Mark Richards' bombshell twinnie. And each fall us Cayucos 'Onlies took our hard-won savings down to Al's Sporting Goods at the foot of the rickety wooden Cayucos Pier and purchased new 1/4-inch thick O'Neill Animal Skins, which we rarely doffed during daylight hours over the next year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449385797951-VGNCBGDFYK9AIB2OKQM2/parmenter-sea-kayak-central-coast.jpg The Early Years - Big Sur Rock Garden 2004 'Yakkin it up! When the sit-on-top rotomolded seakayaks came out in the mid 1980s we immediately adopted them on the rugged coast north of San Luis Obispo, to explore for surf, camp on deserted beaches, and seek out epic firehose sluices in rock gardens like this one in lower Big Sur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449546133553-BY8KIMA6GR1F6P1359AJ/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1977 - Coyote Lines Backpage ads were inexpensive .. well, free ... back in the 1970s when you are the publisher of a surfing magazine and the circulation of said periodical is 1. ...And production design involves only a black marker pen and half of 6th period Constitutional Seminar class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449546561771-9LIU9N96Y2RLQ14YTBNO/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 2003 - Makaha Beach Buffalo's Big Board Surfing Classic is held each February out in Makaha, and features surfing forms seen only there, such as the Two-person Team Surfing Division. My partner in all the team events was Brian Keaulana, one of the greatest innovators of all time in ocean sports and water safety. More importantly in these demolition derby heats where two surfers must ride closely together in synchronized surfing, Brian is a Hollywood stuntman: Most of the events at Buff's meet, whether in the enforced silliness of the Team Bodyboard event or the chariot race lethality of canoe surfing, require the participant to be part waterman, part stuntman, and part rodeo clown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449549829389-SBB9SVEJEFSCN91WNCNB/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1987 - Baja California Larry "Flame' Moore (who shot this photo) was a classic character and indefatigable instigator of expeditions. Todos Santos, shown here. Cortes Banks. Offshore islands a Boston Whaler couldn't reach in a month of Sundays. This 1987 surfari to Todos included Mike Parsons and Tom Curren. Tom and I rode single fins. This one was a pre-Rusty Rusty, a Canyon 7'10" that would have been right at home in 3rd reef Sunset in 1975. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449550661754-RMNLR1ARGBG05UIN6HMF/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1979 - Cayucos, California Still in high school, still trying to mimic Mark Richards' unique body torque, on a 6'4" Wave Tool twin fin (the same length as MR's bombshell twinnie). Matt George shot the photo during one of his many skate or surf injury periods of dry-dock. I was into photography long before him, however, and in the school lab were I was on the publications and newspaper staff, I rolled all my own film rolls, developed the negatives, and printed them with all sorts of experimental methods on the school's enlarger. As can be seen here, I was very fond of grain, and used Tri-X exclusively even in bright daylight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449557027511-FUAMQEY6SYV47R6745ET/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 2009 - Makaha Beach The canoe surfing event is the highlight of Buffalo's Big Board contest, which has run every winter since 1976. Out in the Bowl, at size every canoe wipeout is like an automobile accident. There are injuries in every contest. An Hawaiian steersman reverts to full warrior mode. No one holds back or gives quarter in positioning and wave possession. I was Brian Keaulana's ama guy -- my job was to balance the canoe so the ama (outrigger) stayed light so he could steer big sweeping turns, but also to dive on the ama if a huli (capsize) was imminent. This crew was one of the best we ever had. Brain steering, me in No. 3 seat, and Keone Downing in No. 2, with Kaipo Guerrero in No. 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449640121307-V8PTVI2VVTJ29KB94PYX/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1980 - Cayucos, California 6'2" Wave Tools twin fin with the very first large Central Coast Surfboards "CCS" logo airbrushed on the bottom. The wetsuit is an O'Neill LD3, which we derisively referred to as Lipton Flo-thru tea bags, as the icy central California seawater gushed unimpeded through the 4,025 overlock stitch seams. The photo was snapped from the Cayucos pier by my high school surf and filmmaking partner, Craig Comen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449641079151-DKO7C7LHQ9EE1GHJMKK1/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1974 - Santa Barbara On surfari in junior high school with one of the other Newport Point gremmies, Brett L'Ecleuse. It was considered de rigueur then to sport a Russell Surfboards Hi-Cru Tee until it literally frayed and decomposed into rags off one's shoulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449641656521-6PI93OQ6DMMB5D9RMM0R/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1980 - Cayucos, California Cayucos Pier, and the whole of Estero Bay, used to get a whole lot better back in the Early Years. The 1982-1983 mega-storms moved so much sand so far offshore that even now over 30 years later most of the breaks haven't recovered their former glories. None of us kids had heard of Surfer's Ear and we pulled into closeout barrel after closeout barrel trying to imitate Shaun Tomson at Off The Wall. If anyone straightened off or kicked out we cited them for FIrst Degree Tube Evasion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449642337190-W0E9BES0VU2EQ5G45101/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1995 - Hawaiian Islands Getting '10' on a thin, flat-decked Nat Young-ish 9'4" single fin at some sharkwater reef along leeward Maui. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449642609956-O6AVTOIHS950GDQX1N7K/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1999 - San Luis Obispo, California This 11'0" Makaha Machine was shaped for Flippy Hoffmann, as described in the essay "Shaping Flippy's Board" in the Biblio page of this website. "Fan-DAMN-tastic!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450673367679-4U0YUGS240YXBDNB9CLU/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1978 - Newport Beach, California Down in Newport Beach staying at Preston Murray's house for the Katin Pro-Am Team Challenge, January 1978. I brought him a new Aleutian Juice skateboard deck made in woodshop, for which he obviously traded me the wearing of his extremely suspect Primo Sea Suits springsuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449724427332-QO0E7XVGOVF61XSD9GIG/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1985 - South Coast, NSW Robbie Bain became my closest friend on the ASP circuit. In 1984 when he was with the Australian amateur team in southern California for the World Amateur Titles, I rescued him from Huntington Beach and took him straight up to the Big Sur coast, if for no other reason than to show a homesick Aussie that California had more wilderness and pine trees than Jack-In-The-Box clowns leering over concrete piers. Bainy returned the favor the following year in Australia and shared all his bushcraft on the fabled coast south of Sydney - proving to me that Australia had more going on than the Manly Courso. Far down the southern coast of New South Wales is a reserve where kangaroos mill about on the beach, and are tame enough to hand feed. I seem to remember they loved Puffed Rice cereal best... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450673718008-EVCCPSB49EUAD9JXR6KM/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 2000 - Big Sur, California The crew at Moondoggie's Beach Club, a surf shop in San Luis Obispo founded in 1986 by SLO native Randy Adler, embraced mojo and camaraderie in surfing and rejected the trog Taliban. Left to right: Jason Peterson, Matt Mohle, Zach 'Hula' Hartley, Dave Bourbon, and me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449725329829-KADTU9SNICNILVVL8K4H/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1982 - North Coast In the Early Years Admiral Sir Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain led all our expeditions up the coast from the docile reservations of settled parking lot surf zones. For many years it was a custom on New Year's Day to make a foray deep into the Territories and attempt to surf somewhere that had never been ridden. Here Glen Starkey, Craig Comen and me spock a lonely cove on January 1st, 1982. My Cheyne Horan-influenced single fin was shaped and glassed the day before in Comen's garage in Cambria in anticipation of Admiral Chamberlain's clarion call to hit it and hit it hard to ring in the New Year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1449726577392-U83NOX5G4EGYJOAUX7JJ/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1990 - San Luis Obispo My first shaping room at the Lazy Whitecap Ranch was a former tack room for the horse stables adjacent the old farmhouse. This board was a bit over 8'0", for Ryk Kluuver, and it maxed out the space ... so it wasn't long before orders for 9'0" and 10'0" guns forced a move into the garage, where I have been shaping for 25 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450671285931-2N4OB2XY6HW0Q2Q51GS0/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1985 - Cronulla, NSW Australia The Beaurepaires Tyre Southside Open held at Eloura Beach in Cronulla on Sydney's south side was the beginning of my first full year on the newly-inaugurated ASP tour, in which I made the Top 16. In this event I had to surf my way out of the trials, which in Australia meant joining battle with legions of red-hot local surfers unknown to the American glossies but who to a man competed with a tenacity little seen back in the States. My run at the finals ended with a semi-final clash with Aussie wunderkind and Cronulla local Mark Occhilupo, and I had to settle for equal 3rd and a dog's eye with horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450672263838-FJQ7BYWNOGC56EGDSJVC/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 2006 - Kaiwi Channel, Hawaii Brian Keaulana, Todd Bradley, and I created the sport of standup paddleboard racing out of whole cloth, envisioning the establishment of a new regatta-class open-ocean paddlesport to take its place in Hawaii alongside OC-6 and OC-1 and prone paddleboard distance races. This 2006's Molokai-to-Oahu race, 32 miles of sledding down bump and bump in the treacherous Ka'iwi Channel. My partner in the two-man relay race for 8 years was Archie Kalepa, shown here on the ski about to switch places with me and hammer home to Hawaii Kai. Archie was the first person to paddle standup across the Molokai Channel, in 2004. He did it on a rudimentary 12' EPS/epoxy tanker, solo, and it was the Shot Heard Round The World as far as forcing naysayers to take the new sport seriously. Here I am paddling one of the first 14-foot raceboards I made for myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1450674579965-YNEMALSBCZ1O5HVRTHVD/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - 1996 - Makaha, Hawaii Riding an 8'10" thin and boxy tri-fin Makaha Machine that was one of the best all-around surfboards I ever possessed. The Makaha Machine design somehow sidesteps being a mere longboard gun, codger gun, or retro showpiece and instead burrows a deep taproot back to Dick Brewer's revolutionary 'pocket rockets' -- but adds modern jet-sled bottoms, rails, foils, rockers, and fin arrays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1452027258478-PCSEZ2DYB61PKNMYKVB9/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - August 1988 - Costa Mesa, California Greg Mungall and me at Mung's Altra S factory with a couple of freshly-shaped and glassed customs for Tom Carroll, to be delivered to him at the OP Pro at Huntington Beach. Here we salute his Royal Thighness with our own Tom Carroll quad displays. Not sure why Tom ordered a brace of boards from a novice shaper sliding down the arse end of the ASP ratings, but suspect he was desperately looking for some homegrown juju to help him beat the "Huntington Hex" he was cursed with for much of his career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5648c5bce4b003ec2cc22a2d/1452028228169-JY56QFZFNIXJC3V19IYI/image-asset.jpeg The Early Years - September 1988 - Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa The first Widowmaker (far left) was shaped at Rusty's complex in San Diego in the summer of 1988. At 6'9" X 11.75" Nose X 18.5" Widepoint X 11.5" Tail X 2.65" Thickness it was meant to cure Thrusteritis at the fabled righthand point break. When I got to J-Bay in September of 1988 it was a revelation -- for the first time since I left the Church of One Fin I could surf like myself again. 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