New Pine Hand Board

I built this hand planing board this week from a spare THULE display shelf we had at our shop. I discovered several of these shelves just gathering dust in our storage shed and immediately thought "hmmmmm..." I'll be making a few more in different shapes.

New Sunburst Paipo

Looking Down the Barrel

First of a planned series of wave paintings on shaped fibre-board panels.

"Looking Down the Barrel"
Acrylic on MDF
1180mm x 380mm x 12mm

Full Circle on The Surfer's Path

There's a new article by Tom Pohaku Stone on the Surfer's Path site called Full Circle about the return to wooden boards

Read it here.

Vintage Bellyboards

Here are two vintage bellyboards from the 1940s or 50s that are part of the collection of vintage surfboards at Exit Surf Products here in Christchurch. I forgot to measure them but they are approx 120cm long.

Two Alaia Vids

Chad Marshall riding and talking about his alaia






Jacob Stuth riding an alaia at Noosa Heads

My Home Beach

You'd almost think it was summer! Huh! A small swell day and the water is icy.



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