Starting your new surfboards

Who: Gary Hanel aka GH.
What: Templating blanks.
When: Now.
Where: Deepest darkest Leucadia, California.
Why: Shaping surfboards for the new Surfy Surfy Surf Shop.
How: A cosmic combination of freewill and destiny?

Feeling Lucky?

Kachow!

Caden Kerr throws down a full body warp on the 5'9" Mandala 2+1.

Green Candy

One Fin Pin #14 of 50. Shaped by Terry Martin. Resin work by Gary Stuber.

STOP SURFING CONTESTS AT SWAMIS

Swamis painting by Pat Tobin available at Waverider's Gallery

Sign the online petition: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-surfing-contests-at-swamis

Stop the privatization of Swamis for an elite few

There is a proposed professional womens longboard contest slated to be held at Swamis, Encinitas California October 2010. It is my strong opinion that this and any contest at Swamis is a bad idea. This is a segregated contest that excludes the local surfing community. Swamis services several hundred surfers a day. Cutting off public access to Swamis will put pressure on other surf spots, creating frustration with overcrowding and dangerous situations.

The Rob Machado and Switchfoot Bro-Am contest have been very successful in the past because those events includes the local community. These contest have not been held at Swamis because the organizers know that Swamis is traditionally a no contest zone and they respect that. Even the Swamis Surfing Association has written in their by-laws not to have contest at Swamis.

The new CEO of the Encinitas Chamber of Commerce Marshall Weinreb, a non-surfer, has declared this contest "The biggest thing to ever come to Encinitas." Mr. Weinreb has been misinformed. This contest does not carry the prestige that the organizers claim it has. The major surf media outlets don't even bother to cover it.

This contest will set a troubling precedent. The local surf community losing access to Swamis for 4 days is just the beginning. We are opening Pandora's Box. Imagine 3 or 4 contest a year at Swamis. The public could lose access to Swamis for 20 days a year. This has happened to many important surf spots worldwide.

Sign the online petition, click here

Visit the blog, Stop Surfing Contest at Swamis Blogspot

View the official website of the proposed contest: thewwlc.com

5'2" Surfy Grom

GH shapes good little boards for the local ripper groms. Here is Lucas Thomas with his 5'2" x 17" x 1 13/16"

Custom handpainted diamond for Lucas by Peter St Pierre.

Surfy Stocked

Some of the stock boards for the new shop waiting to be finished.

I'm stuck on you

One Fin Pin 18/50

The One Fin Pin #18 of 50 for Hobie Surfboards.
Concept and pencil logos on foam by Tyler Warren.
Double stringer shape by the master, Terry Martin.
Glass job by Gary Stuber.
Black wraparound resin panels by Peter St Pierre.

Hello

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Afternoon in the Alley

Afternoon in the Alley, originally uploaded by Moonlight Glassing/Surfy Surfy.

Sent from my groovy iPhone
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Night Quad

Future Home of Surfy Surfy Surf Shop, Leucadia CA

SC Exhibit D: 5'11" Mini-Merk 5 fin Bonzer

From our booth at Sacred Craft Del Mar 2009: The Mini-Merk Bonzer handshaped by Malcolm Campbell.
5'11" length x 20" width x 2 9/16" thickness
Glassing: 5/4 s-cloth deck and 5 oz bottom. Airbrushed, glass-on fiberglass siderunners with center box. Wetsanded gloss finish. The Mini-Merk is a modernized version of a 1980's shortboard. This board is a copy of the board I am currently riding.
See previous post about my personal Mini-Merk: Surfy Surfy: The 5 fin Bonzer Mini-Merk
Surfy Surfy: SC Exhibit C: 6'0" GH 5 Fin

Counting Fins on Yo Gabba Gabba

A Moonlight glassed Campbell Bros 5 fin Bonzer in an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba? This is the greatest day of my life!
Some light Googling reveals that this segment was produced by Thomas and Tiffany Campbell.
Thanks to Ed Lewis from the Leucadia Project blog for telling me about this.

First Customer

Russ Short first in line, waiting for the new Surfy Surfy Surf Shop to open.

Luke Short wears Moonlight

Daniel Cross from BASE Surfboards in Australia sent me some pics of Luke Short shaping in a Moonlight tee. Stoked! Those BASE guys are the real deal. Keep supporting surfer labor world wide.
(psst, want you own Moonlight t-shirt? click me)

Squirreled!

Sent in from somebody named singlefinz.

Sometimes surfboards get crusty,

Me posing with Jon Pankopf's magic GH semi-gun before the clean up,

Post clean up, ready to ride again.

Jon surfing the magic GH in Tahiti, circa 1992.

Watch the video of the clean up process: Surfy Surfy: Korduroy.tv: Old Board Fix Up

Korduroy.tv: Old Board Fix Up

Check out this short movie that Cyrus Sutton shot at the shop of me cleaning up Jon Pankopf's 1992 magic GH semi-gun.
*note the carbon fiber strip down the stringer, the carbon fiber/foam combo glass-on fins and late 80's transition logos.
I hope this gets you stoked to pull a crusty board out of the garage and breathe new life into it.
Watch more bitchin' vids at Korduroy.tv

SC Exhibit C: 6'0" GH 5 Fin

From GH's booth at Sacred Craft Del Mar 2009:
6'0" length x 21 1/4"width x 13/16" thickness.
This is GH's Barracuda 5 fin fish model that was featured in Surfer Magazine's Board Forum.

Surfy Surfy: SC Exhibit B: 5'10" GH Lowboy Keel