Bonzer Peeps

Dan Malloy Frank Zappa and his mini-Bonzer3.
"I should have thought of that." Reno Abellira and quiver.
Hawaii's Daniel Jones enjoying California.

GH Channel Frog

Dan Marinelli of the Radalog blog sent in these pics of a still functioning 1980s GH channel bottom. Groovy!

Lil' Kelpy Fish

This fine little 5'7" kelpy toned Fish was handshaped by the elusive Fish Master Rich Pavel. This is his Superbank Fish. Since this one has bamboo keels it's a Super Superbank Fish. You afishionados out there can check it out in the Moonlight Glassing showroom.
*This board is SOLD, thanks!

Freshies

Octa-Merk?

Rick from N.J. had Malcolm blend the Mini-Merk and Octafish into a new hybrid of rippage.
Space Madness!

The Others

Cyrus filming for "Stoked and Broke" from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Cyrus Sutton's Big Brother cam, via TSJ. I think they call this swim surfing?

Sea Movies- Stranger than Friction from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Ryan Burch chopped up a soft top in the parking lot and went surf sliding. I always knew those soft tops would work better without those crappy plastic fins they come with. In pre-internet days Paul Roach did this every single day on a bodyboard and mean guys would yell at him for it.

GH Astro Pod

As featured in the Surfer magazine 2010 Board Buyer's Guide. Listed as a Speed Egg but I call it the GH Astro Pod. This puppy has a more pulled in outline than an egg so it will handle dropping tide beachbreaks. GH's Astro Bottom for water flow, control and speed. Modern performance rails and foil. Adjustable Lokbox fin system for travel and fin experimentation (shown here with Taylor Knox fins). Glassed with 4 oz and polished gloss for a well built, lightweight board. Nice soulful airbrush. A lot of surfboard companies will phone it in on boards like these but not GH. This is a board that takes the everyday working man surfer seriously. Carpe diem.
6'2" x 20 1/2" x 2 5/8"

Original GH Astro Egg

From the attic of Moonlight Glassing, an original Gary Hanel Astro Egg circa 1987.
It's got some bruises but it's watertight. Not bad for a 20 year old Clark Foam blank.
Gary Hanel shaped a lot of the Rip Curl stock boards in the 1980s.
Big logos were a must back then. It's nice to see the original Moonlight logo again. Maybe we should bring that one back?
The GH Astro Bottom organizes the water flow into the fin cluster and adds speed and control.
By the end of the 80s the Freestyle box had gone extinct. It's a score to find a board with a Freestyle box with the original fin still in it.
This is a nice angle of the Astro Bottom.
Glassed with K-Glass (meaning the brand of fiberglass cloth used).
The dims are basically the same but the two decades refinements to the rocker and foil since this board was shaped are noticeable.
20 years later eggy outlines, astro bottoms and fin systems are still in use in Gary Hanel and Moonlight surfboards.
See also: Surfy Surfy: Astro Eggs: Then & Now

Your Sunday afternoon impulse buy

Moonlight Glassing t-shirts available on the Surfy Surfy online store!

A Checkered Future

Custom for the Brownfish.

This is a Gary Hanel surfboard glassed at Moonlight Glassing for Surfy Surfy

6'6" x 19 1/4" x 2 1/2"

Buffity Buffity

Longer Bonzer3

Spindrift

Surfy People: Mr and Mrs Cummins

R.d. Cummins is friend to all creatures great and small. Photo by Michelle Woo.
Kevin Cummins and his trademark turn. Photo by Shawn McNabb