Craftsman Alert: Factory 101

Jon Pankopf of Factory 101 prints logo laminates for the majority of the surfboard labels in California.

He runs a small operation out of Encinitas, CA (ranked the 3rd best surf town in America by Surfer Magazine).

Jon is an excellent artist and always has interesting projects going on.

Jon's latest challenge is this new Chris Christenson 9 color skull laminate.

The vast majority of surfboard lams are 3 colors at the max.

Factory 101 prints stickers too. And where would the surf industry be without stickers? Nowhere, that's where.

The 9 color skull glassed out A-OK.

Got a surfboard company? Give Jon a call.

Sally gets Loopy

Surfy Logo 3.0

Surfy Logo 3.0, originally uploaded by Moonlight Glassing Surfboards.

Soon there will be stickers, because surfing is really all about the
stickers.

Team Surfy Surfy will be at Sacred Craft

Surfy Surfy, Moonlight Glassing, GH Surfboards and Campbell Brothers Surfboards will all be in a row at Sacred Craft.
You gotta come visit us, there will be a kabillion cool surfboards in there and it's only like $5 bucks to get in. This year Sacred Craft is honoring the contributions of Dick Brewer and Dick will be there all weekend cruising around, which doesn't happen often so you totally gotta go.
Here is the info in all caps,
DATES: SATURDAY OCT 10 & SUNDAY OCT 11 2009
TIMES: SATURDAY 10AM-6PM & SUNDAY 10AM-4PM
LOCATION: DEL MAR FAIRGROUNDS
DIRECTIONS: DEL MAR FAIR
ADMISSION: FREE FOR GROMS UNDER 16. $5 FOR EVERYONE ELSE AND YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENTERED IN A RAFFLE FOR A BRAND NEW SURFBOARD! DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT TO WIN.
*Note-I am pretty certain the fairgrounds charges for parking so be sure to carpool.
www.sacredcraftexpo.com
The Surfy Surfy booth is E-11. Come visit and find out our major announcement regarding the future of Surfy Surfy.

The Wax Buddy Chronicles

Manolo had Ben Matz's board at the shop last week and it had the thickest goopiest wax job I've ever seen so me and my Wax Buddy sprang into action.

The 5 fin Bonzer Mini-Merk

In early spring of this year I contacted Malcolm Campbell about shaping me a new Bonzer shortboard that was based on the short, thick and wide shortboards of the 1980's, but with modern refinements to the rocker and foil. The result was the Mini-Merk and I am stoked.
The Mini-Merk Bonzer5 is glassed with double layer 4 oz S-cloth deck, and single 4 oz S-cloth bottom, with a wetsanded gloss coat. The glass-job is seriously solid. I haven't been riding any of my other boards all summer, and the Mini-Merk still looks new 5 months later with barely any deck dents and zero dings.
The Mini-Merk is wide and thick for the fat mushy waves I've been surfing all summer. The lightweight and flexy bamboo Bonzer fins give this board a performance boost for vertical surfing I can't get out of my twin and quad Fishes.
The Mini-Merk after it was freshly airbrushed and up front waiting to get glassed. Thanks to my airbrusher Dad for taking the time to tape off all those lines.
The Mini-Merk at Fish Fry 5.
The Mini-Merk dims are: 5'11" length x 20" width x 2 9/16"
The airbrush was inspired by JM's jammies.
Ignore my funky looking waxjob, it melted in the car. The little traction pad is by D-Surf.

Some of you may remember seeing the unwaxed and unridden Mini-Merk at the Sacred Craft show in Ventura back in May. The Mini-Merk will be on display in the Surfy Surfy/Moonlight Glassing/Campbell Brothers Bonzer Surfboards booth at Sacred Craft October 10 and 11 if you want to check it out in person.

*Note-Malcolm can shape custom modified versions of the Mini-Merk if you aren't in love with those wide nose and tail dims.

Transparent Sea Voyage

I recently became acquainted with Chris Del Moro who sent me this email today announcing his new project,
"The reason for this journey is to hook up with great surfer, environmentalist and good friend Dave Rastovich to embark on a 700km journey from Byron Bay to Sydney Australia (think SF to LA). Our goal is to travel along side the annual migration of Humpback whales on their mission towards Antarctica. Through our journey we are hoping to spread awareness of the annual whale hunts happening in the Southern Whale Sanctuary as well as the 23,000 dolphins killed annually in Taiji, Japan. Dave, lens man Hilton Dawe and a rotating boat will travel in 16ft Hobie kayak/outrigger/sail boats hoping to tap into the raw powers that the ocean will bring our way."
They got a blog: transparentseavoyage.com

Sunday Stubbie Sunday

Manolo Caro of Mandala Surfboards in currently in Japan where he is taking his Stubbie Sundays concept global.
His new Stubbie Sunday blog, sundaystubbiesunday.blogspot.com
His original blog, The Swallowtail Society, theswallowtailsociety.blogspot.com

Today is No Pop-Out Day

Today is No Pop-Out Day, originally uploaded by Moonlight Glassing Surfboards.

If you see someone riding a pop-out at your homebreak today tell them, "Hey man, no pop-outs allowed. It's Surfy Sunday for goodness sake".

Airbrush DuJour

Airbrush DuJour, originally uploaded by Moonlight Glassing Surfboards.

Sent from my groovy iPhone
www.surfysurfy.net

Real Fun

Real Fun, originally uploaded by Moonlight Glassing Surfboards.

JM loves to huck the gravel in front of Real Surf at passing cars.
Don't tell mommy.

Surfy Surfy in Slide Magazine #14

The New Zealand surf periodical, Slide Magazine is now available in the USA.

The new editor Ryan Smith convinced me to write an article about the AB3 and Fish Fry events over the last few years.

The auto focus on my digital camera is dying so you can't read the article off the photo. It doesn't matter anyway because I wrote the article at 3 o'clock in the morning so it's full of factual errors and rumors and lies.

This issue of Slide is also noteworthy because it features my very first Surfy Surfy print ad ever.

As soon as this puppy hits the newstands I'm just going to sit back and watch my hit counter go up and up.
Attend the Slide Magazine USA launch party October 10th! (Sacred Craft weekend)
What: SLIDE Magazine’s U.S. Launch Party
Where: Surfindian - 4658 Mission Blvd., Pacific Beach, CA 92109,
(858) 412-5334, www.surfindian.com
When: Saturday, October 10th, 7-10p
Why: Help us celebrate the long-awaited United States launch of SLIDE Magazine, after 7 years of publishing for international markets in New Zealand and Australia.
Special Note: For the first time ever, the complete “Team SLIDE” will be together for such a gathering. Publisher Alan Ashworth, from New Zealand, and Editor Ryan A. Smith, currently residing in Ojai, CA, will both be in the house. John Slavin and Ron Greene, SLIDE’s newest Senior Photographers, will be on hand, as well.
Food: Taco Surf to provide a taco bar. Water & soft drinks available
Raffle Tickets: Each person will receive one (1) raffle ticket upon entry. Plus, those who purchase a SLIDE Magazine @ Surfindian will receive two (2) additional tickets. (**Raffle winners must be present to collect prizes.)
www.slidemagazine.com

HB Fish Fry in 52 seconds

HB Fish Fry 09 from Modus Films on Vimeo.

I wasn't able to attend last week's Fish Fry in Huntington Beach so I'm glad the Modus Films guys summed it up in less than a minute.

Our Demos

Left-5'10" Bonzer 3 fin "Bumblebee" model.
Center-6'4" Bonzer 3 fin Russ Short model.
Right-6'8" Bonzer 5 fin e-wing egg.
You can pick up any one of these boards at the factory and demo them for 24 hours.
Directions to Moonlight Glassing

The Man in the Black Pajamas

This is not a video of two dudes in pajamas dry humping each other in front of an audience. This is a video of world famous surfer Joel Tudor winning the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu US Championships.

Sandpaper Set

The Santa Ana weather curled my sandpaper into perfect barrels. From flat to stacked and pumping in a matter of minutes. Hoot!

9 Bamboo Fins

9 Bamboo Fins, originally uploaded by Moonlight Glassing Surfboards.

Sent from my groovy iPhone
www.surfysurfy.net

"Inspired by Previous Failure"

Top video-Ryan Burch builds himself a 12 ft wood plank surfboard.
Bottom video-Entertaining footage of Ryan riding the board.
via Korduroy TV.

Lucas picks up his new board

Lucas picked up his new 5'2" GH pintail and he's surfing it in the Rob Machado contest this weekend.
robmachadosurfexperience.com

Bland Fish

Encinitas surfer/carpenter John Bland does some clean shaping on the side. Look for John carving up his local mush peak all day long on this quad fish until the recession ends.