The Fish and the Wave

custom shape and tailblock by Mike Slingerland, art by Peter St Pierre. Glassed at Moonlight Glassing, California USA.

My Working Quiver 2008

By popular request, here is my current working quiver:
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A. 6'6" Malcolm Campbell Bonzer5-US Blank, bamboo siderunners, glassed with Resin-X (unfinished, currently in production, pulled out of factory for photo shoot)
B. 6'3" Malcolm Campbell Bonzer5-Clark Foam. This board is *magic*
C. 5'8" Malcolm Campbell Bonzer3 Light Vehicle Stub. US Blank, bamboo siderunners. A favorite!
D. 6'3" Evolution Double Ender shaped by Wayne Lynch-Clark Foam. 2+1 center box with Lokbox sides.
E. 5'10" Mark Richards 80's style twin fin. #49 of 500 shaped. Foam unknown. Glassed with 4 oz S glass. Glass-on fins.
F. 5'7" Rich Pavel Speedialer quad with vanishing tapered stringer. Clark Foam. Lokbox fin system. 4 oz S glass.
G. 5'7" Gary Hanel twin Fish with removable bamboo "Lowboys" by 101 Fin Co. 4 oz S glass. Tiki pinlines. Resin tint.
H. 5'9" Thumb with Bonzer5 system. I love this surfboard. You can watch Rob Machado glassing it in the Moonlight YouTube video in the links on the right. Clark Foam.
I. 5'6" Shawn Ambrose "Sputnik" stringerless. Bennett foam glassed with 5 oz Resin-X. Lokbox fin system. Star Wars artwork.
J. 5'4" Shawn Ambrose Sputnik5 with all bamboo glass-on fins. Stringerless. Ice-9 foam. 1990's carbon fiber strips.
K. 5'8" Shawn Ambrose Sputnik quad with parabolic rail stringers. Star Wars tiki pinlines.
L. 6'6" Guy Takayama GWAT. Clark Foam.
M. 6'3" Channel Islands Flyer II. Shaped and signed by Al Merrick as a wedding gift. D-Size cloth, Red-X fin System. Cosmic airbrush.
N. 5'7" Mandala 2+1 Stub by Manuel Caro. Tapered stringer. King Mac foam. Bamboo and Kiri glass-on wood fins by 101 Fin Co.
O. 5'11" Marlin Bacon tri-fin. Agave and balsa glass-on fins by John Cherry. Clark Foam.

15 boards total plus this one,

P. 6'1" Bonzer that got killed on the biggest day of the winter a few years back. *sob* Clark Foam.

It's a pretty decent batch of boards with some gaps that need to be filled. Who knows what the quiver will look like this time in 2009?

Octa-Sage

Octafish Bonzer5 with bamboo siderunners. Custom for Rick. I'm digging the earthiness of this board.

Sprouting in 2003

I just stumbled across a lost photo CD from 2003 of Rob Machado and Thomas Campbell making boards for the Costa Rica segment of the surf film Sprout,


Rob Machado-Keep on Truckin'

Rob watches Peter St Pierre tape off a rail.

Filmaker/artist Thomas Campbell and Rob take over the airbrush rack.

Thomas and his signature style.

Gary Stuber gives Rob some last minute advice.

A light orange tint over the airbrush artwork makes for full on groovyness.

"Good job Rob." sez a watchful Guy Takayama.

LINKS:
Sprout
Rob Machado.com

Six Foot N' Perfect

Custom Bonzer for a fellow Blogger, Six Foot N' Perfect

See also:

Surfy Surfy: Clay Fins

Surfy Surfy: Boards for Bloggers by Bloggers

Peter Pinline

Bonzer Peeps

Daniel Jones

Barton Lynch

Tim Orr

Raul Gonzales

Sage Beltran

LINKS:
Bonzer Front Blog

Alien Eye

CAUTION

CAUTION--The ocean in southern California is still gnarly.

See also, Surfy Surfy: Remember, there are no sharks in Southern California

Festus Porkmeyer is selling his Octafish

The Bonzer of the ball: Octafish. 5'11" x wide x thick. (Porky’s dimensions: 5'12" x 155 x fat as fark.) Excellent condition. $500?

This surfboard is durable. Proof?

Here's an e-mail from Porky to the glasser: "I mistimed an exit from the water at a violent North Coast lagoon break. I tried to race this triple-up to the beach, but it yanked my legs out from under me, rolling that new green Bonzer and me, face first, across the rocks. I lost my good looks, but, happily, the board is perfectly intact. Maybe Moonlight could use that for a slogan. Or you could just outsource it?"

The glasser's e-mail response: "Always put flesh over fiberglass in a crash. Flesh grows back, sometimes in interesting patterns. And that is a good slogan. Its being painted in bright red lead based paint on a baby toy as we speak."

Don't let the board's green shades fool you. The blank is composed entirely of tightly interwoven cigarette butts. The glassing schedule? Layer upon forkin' layer of low-grade methamphetamine byproduct residuals Pinliner and Porky scraped from the bottom of industrial-size drums while researching their soon-to-be-released feature film, A Boatload of Tweakers. As Porky mentioned: Durable. Anyone know the number for the EPA? The Superfund people?

e-mail porkmeyer@yahoo.com
*Private party, do not contact Moonlight or Surfy Surfy for this board.
See also: Surfy Surfy: Trusty Dusty Octa-Fishin'
Art from Sissyfish.

Sputnik

Sputnik model with custom parabolic rail stringers by Shawn Ambrose.
Airbrush by Peter St Pierre.

Custom Bonzer Shortboard

Good lookin' Bonzer5 shortboard handshaped by Malcolm Campbell.

Red siderunners handfoiled by Jack Jensen aka The Fin Man. Center box fin by Fibre Glass Fin Co.

The dims.

Glassed with 4 oz S cloth.

Moon Lobster approved!

See also: Surfy Surfy: Red5

Daily Dale in Guinness Book of World Records

Dale's epic surfing streak is proudly listed right next to Most Entrants at a Bog Snorkeling Championship.

LINKS:
Guinness Book of World Records
Surfing Magazine Interview
*New-Sports Illustrated

*note-Dale has not taken a day off from surfing yet...

Attack of the Surf Baby

HIIIIYAAH SURF BLOG PEEPS!

Thalia St Bonzers

Thalia St Surf Shop in Laguna Beach, California has revamped their website with a nice online store showcasing their entire stock of surfboards. They currently have a nice batch of authentic Campbell Brothers Bonzers handshaped by Malcolm Campbell and glassed at Moonlight Glassing. This 5'10" egg looks tasty.

LINKS:
Thalia St stock Bonzers online
Thalia Surf Dot Com
Thalia Blog

Hot Lava

Bob Harvey shape. Resin work by Gary Stuber.