Hey, that's groovy man...

Groovy photo by Dani Miguel of a Mandala/Moonlight 2+1 Stubbie.

Dane Reynolds has a lot of rad surfboards

Campbell Brothers 5 fin Bonzer at the top of the heap.
From Dane Reynold's blog Marine Layer Productions
People have been emailing us this photo since August so we decided to finally blog it ;)

She awaits...

FIGHT THE EVIL SURF INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

The Surf Industry Stole My Culture and all I got was the Stupid t-shirt
by renegade rebel Kimball Taylor.
Available via the Surfy Surfy online store.

Good morning darkness

Nothing stokes out a surfboard polisher more than deep dark resin tints with glass-on fins!

Glass-on Tri to Lokbox Quad Conversion

Tony bought this 6'6" Christenson off Craigslist and brought it to the shop to have our ding surgeon JJR chop off the bamboo glass-on fins (gosh!) and convert it into a Lokbox quad.
If you have any special projects like this in need drop it off at Surfy Surfy and JJR will do it up for you.

Billabong's Art of Shaping 2011 at Sacred Craft

Billabong USA is hosting their fourth annual "Billabong Art of Shaping Event" this year at the Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, CA. This years' "Billabong Art of Shaping: Los Angeles County Edition" event will feature many of the top shapers in or originating from the hotbed of Los Angeles county.

The list of confirmed participating shapers includes Scott Anderson, Joe Bark, Jose Barahona, Clyde Beatty, Matt Calvani, Lance Carson, Bing Copeland, Robbie Dick, Bruce Grant, Tyler Hatzikian, Brian Hilbers, Jeff Ho, Hap Jacobs, Dennis Jarvis, Don Kadowaki, Glen Kennedy, Greg Liddle, Casey McCrystal, Jed Noll, Pat Ryan, Mike Stavros, Jeff Stoner, Jerry O'Keefe and Michael Zippi.

The "Billabong Art of Shaping LA County Event" is a charity event, the winner of the competition is the shaper of the board that brings in the highest auction price at the Live Auction held Saturday night, October 8th; and thus becomes the largest single donor to 2011 SIMA Humanitarian Fund Grant recipients, the beneficiaries chosen for this years' "Billabong Art of Shaping Event".

www.billabong.com/artofshaping

Sacred Craft 2011: Del Mar October 8th & 9th

The Sacred Craft Surfboard Expo has returned to the Del Mar Fairgrounds where it belongs.
Visit the Moonlight Glassing/Surfy Surfy booth to check out Campbell Brothers Bonzer Surfboards and finely foiled surfboards by Gary Hanel. Meet Malcolm and Duncan Campbell, GH and members of the Moonlight and Surfy crew in person.
The theme of this year's Sacred Craft is Carl Eckstrom inspired asymmetrical surfboards.
Sacred Craft features live shaping booths, music, food, art, vintage surfboard appraisals, raffles, surf movies and all kinds of groovy stuff.
For more info visit: sacredcraftexpo.com and Sacred Craft Facebook page.

Wet Paint

Got this text photo from the factory today. The next round of Surfy stock Bonzers are in production.

New Groovy Handplanes

Handmade by some young crafty guys from Santa Cruz, California.
We've got 5 in stock right now of various shapes and sizes.
Ventana Surf Co.

Point and Shoot

8'0" x 22 1/2" x 3"

Handshaped by Mike Slingerland (meaning he made the template himself, cut the outline out with a handsaw, planed it with a Skil 100, then foiled it a sandpaper block and dialed it in with a screen. Call it crazy, old school or antiquated but that is the way we roll down here by the beach).

"Coke bottle" blue tint by Gary Stuber at Moonlight Glassing.

2+1 setup with classy matching white fin boxes.

Shown with 7" Rusty fin by Rainbow Fin Co. for power and drive.

Put a flex fin in it if ya want.

Shoot it down-da-line and point it where you want to go...

Surfy Surfy!

New Bodysurfing flick: Come Hell or High Water

Surfy Surfy loves bodysurfing. Surfy Surfy loves surf movies. Surfy Surfy is skeptical that a surf movie about bodysurfing won't be total hipster dreck. But Surfy Surfy loves the Malloys and everything they do so we are going to see this.
Premieres Friday Sept. 23 at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, CA.
Doors open at 7 pm. Movie at 8 pm.
Movie tour schedule: www.woodshed.com/news-events

Where is he now?

The infamous Grotto Indian. Sometimes after hours when the Surfy staff is doing inventory we hear things that go bump in the night.

Minds in the Water

Minds in the Water is a new documentary film by Justin Krumb, starring groovy pro surfer dude Dave Rastovich and friends, and their mission to spread awareness of the worldwide slaughter of dolphins and whales.
The film premieres at the historic La Paloma theatre in Encinitas, California Wednesday September 21st.
Surfy Surfy Surf Shop is selling advance tickets. $15 (cash only).
*Get 20% off your purchase of any item (excludes surfboards) at Surfy Surfy when you purchase a Minds in the Water ticket).
Shop hours 9-7
Minds in Water shows at 7:00 pm and 9:15 pm.
Screening includes a raffle and Q&A with the film makers and stars Dave Rastovich and Chris Del Moro.
Scheduled west coast tour dates:
Sep 21st La Paloma, Encinitas
Sep 22nd Pepperdine University
Sep 24th Duke’s, Malibu
Sep 29th Santa Barbara, TBA
Oct 2nd San Diego Film Festival
www.mindsinthewater.com

The Surfy Surfboard Oil Change and Tune Up Service

Surfy Shop Grom Jared with before and after Surfy Surfboard Oil Change and Tune Up on a 25 year old Sunset kneeboard.

Surfy Surfy Surf Shop offers a nifty surfboard tune up service. Our handy shop groms will change your oil (scrape off that thick yucky black wax that is adding 2 lbs to your board), remove old tailpads, make sure your fins are screwed in properly and assess if you have the correct fins for your needs, clean up the bottom of your board and fix small dings with uv resin. Usually same day turnaround.
Price for this service starts at $20, includes two fresh bars of wax (basecoat and your desired temp).
Prices vary for serious dings or full restorations.
Get 10% off any new fins or traction with this service.
Yew!
See also: Korduroy tv Old Board Clean Up

Taped Off Tri-Fin

This Gary Hanel custom surfboard for Peter St Pierre just might have to become a Surfy Surfy shop model. It's super intriguing. Dig the outline and the cutaway Bonzer siderunner.

Maybe we will offer a center box option...maybe.
Photos via the Taped Off blog.
See also: Moonlight Glassing t-shirts fer shale.

5'11" from The Shire

Mandala mini arc-swallowtail quad:

- 100% handshaped by Manuel C. Caro

- shorter, fuller outline

- rolled hull entry for lift onto the concaves

- single concave to spiral vee

- scooped nose for less swing weight

- volume centered over the back 2/3 of the board

- marine ply wood fins by Jack Jensen

- opaque resin tint, wetsanded gloss finish

- shaped and glassed at Moonlight Glassing

- ride it shorter than you are tall

- surf with speed and flow

- for the full sized Hobbit surfer

- 5'11" x 21" x 2 1/2"

Duncan Back in the Shack

Duncan Campbell of Campbell Brothers Surfboards handed off the shaping duties to brother Malcolm to become the famed restaurateur of Cafe Haleiwa.
After a long hiatus Duncan is back in the shaping shack!
Photos swiped from Facebook.

See also Bonzer History timeline

Big Pillbug

Here is a nifty keen surfboard. It features a black and white gloss-coat resin panel deck inlay polished to a mirror surface (a shame to wax it).

But ride it you must. No wallhangers!
8'0" x 22 1/2" x 3"
Shaped by Gary Hanel.

For sale at Surfy Surfy Surf Shop. Open 7 days a week.

New York Surf Rules

The above videos are from the Quiksilver Pro New York held in good quality surf.
Surfy Surfy has always been New York surf friendly and now the rest of the surfing universe knows New York gets fun waves.
Burning question for the old school New York surfers, was this mega-contest positive for New York surf culture or are you bummed on the hype?

Short stack 'o Spacebars

Combo

Gary Hanel shapes and Moonlight Glassing.
Yeah!

Once a Rub Out Guy always a Rub Out Guy

From Peter St Pierre's Taped Off Blog,

Once a Rubout Guy always a Rubout Guy. John Smith finishing his Slingerland noserider in preperation for an extended stay at a certain Baja pointbreak. I've known John for over forty years he started Ocean Pacific surfboards in the sixties went on to start Destination Surf and now owns Baja Winters taking snowbirds on RV tours of the Baja Peninsula. John and I have more in common than being old fart surfers who still froth over a new board. One of his daughters is married to my son [JP St Pierre of Surfy Surfy] and we share grandpa duty with a couple of wild Groms. Once a Rubout Guy always a Rubout Guy.

Bottom photo by Rebecca Smith.
*Rub Out Guy is surfboard industry slang for the polisher. The Rub Out Guy makes your surfboards shiny in the Rub Out Room.

See also Baja Winters

Dustin's Baja Bonzer5

On Wednesday August 24th we posted a photo of Dustin Smith getting slotted at a Baja point on his Campbell Brothers 5 fin Bonzer semi-gun. We couldn't find the archive photos of this board on the external hard drive so we had no choice but to drive 15 hours south to Dusty's Baja pad to shot a proper blog post of this board.
Luckily we scored some choice surf while we were there.
Of course, we forgot to note the dims. Guessing it's 6'8" x 18 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Note the round safety nose, mini swallow tail, Red-X fin system and 80's/90's transition logos.
Dustin has been running the 6" Bonzer center fin in this board so we left him a 6.5" True Ames Hexcore fin for 4th Point pumpers.
Yew!