maiden surf

it worked!!!! paddling into waves was easy as pie. once i was up it was zip zip down the line and off the top and off the bottom. repeat, repeat, repeat!

the hangnail is done

the hangnail is done at last. this board has tested me at many different levels. the fabric inlay, the wing, the round pin, all of these aspects of board building will test you nerves. lets just say it increases the margin of error. there are only a couple of minor things that i would do differently, but for the most part i'm very happy with the overall look of the board. tomorrow will be the true test.......4'@16sec sounds like a good testing platform. i haven't surfed in months now and i'm happy to have some smaller conditions to for the maiden surf! wish me luck and hopefully i will have a good report tomorrow. the first photo is the best, as the day and weeks go on, my work area gets more and more clustered. pretty classic!

acupuncture works

i have been dealing with a bad back lately and acupuncture is working well. a life time of being a skateboarder, snowboarder and surfer has taken it's toll on my body. if i had a dollar for every flat landing i have taken i would be a rich man. the combination of swim laps in the pool and getting regular treatments has me feeling more like myself. it was kind of funny the day i started to research a surf trip my back flipped out on me. i think it help knowing i had to get better by a certain date in order to fallow my quest for my first barrel. i leave may 1st with joh to el salvador. el salvador is the land of fast right hand point breaks. with a little luck and growing some cojones i will have a good chance to get a tube, maybe several. at the least i will surf some of the best point breaks in the world!

DO YOU? HUH....DO YOU?

if not, you will..........soon enough

HALFfull

i finally got a hour or so after work on friday to install the fin boxes. they are probox and what i think is the best fin system around at the moment. they are fairly easy to install and have adjustable fin cant angle which is one less thing to worry about. i think they came out pretty clean.

OSCAR PAINTING

oscar and amy pulled out the paint to create some magic. i was down in the shaping room and i kept hearing laughter and oscars little feet pounding the hardwood floor. i had no idea that they were painting, but i knew they were having fun.

it been a while

jig, router, and some spray adhesive= good times. i spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out the quad fin cluster. reading, looking, reading, looking some more. up the stairs, down the stairs. i think i found a happy medium from all the crap(info) that i have been taking in the last couple of days. time will tell........if i made the right choices.