Hot Wire Cutting the Next Board

Race board number 5 is under way. 26 1/2 x 14'6

New Race Board from Jimmy Lewis

Hunter's Blog

I just discovered Hunter's blog. Focus is the brand of custom kites Hunter and Paul founded. They design and build them in-house. I've been so far out of the loop since picking up SUP, I had no idea.

http://focuskites.blogspot.com/

http://www.focuskites.com/

Those are dam good looking kites!

More Sunday Photos

One Interesting Idea I Might Test Myself

This handle idea has my interest.

Sam Pa'e did a nice job with this video at Makaha. PonoBill on Maui is also a fan of tail handles.

They swear waves just wash right over you and no leash rides.

Opinions...

Random Morning Shots

Jacky foreground. Autry on the wave.

We missed you out there Brad!

Brian, are you sure you want to stand up right now?

Who's that over there?

Z man

Brian Autry

One Wave by Surf Machine

a.k.a. Brian Autry

We drove north this morning for ideal conditions.

9'3 Sub Vector

The End. Finally!

Greenroom Factory Open House

We went to the open house this afternoon. We didn't win the raffle for a free board. Darn! The guy who won had just ordered a custom board hours earlier.

Lots of blanks

Laminating room.

Shaping room

There is a paint room too, but didn't take a photo of that.

Lots of goodies on sale at the open house. We scored $10 changing robes, $30 shoes, $22 traction pads. Lots of sweet deals at the factory. If you missed it, you screwed up.

Rough and Sloppy Morning

They Work!

I normally go all Winter without booties. Deck pads and booties don't like each other. I surf like a stumble bum with booties. But these Five Finger booties really do seem to make a difference. I picked these up at Coastal Urge Friday.

Arctic Downwinder

What happened to our weather? 85 last Saturday, 50 this Saturday.

The fisherman like it

Boy does 23 lbs feel nice!

All 14'6 of her. It's a real nice ride.

By the way, it was yellow last weekend. I decided I liked windsurfer classic white better, so I sanded it down and repainted it this week.

Greenroom Factory Open House

Next Saturday, do yourself a favor and check out the Greenroom surfboard factory. This may be Wilmington's best kept secret. It's not located where you think. This is not the Greenroom on South College Road. This is their factory, hidden behind the back door of the dry cleaners next to Buffalo Wild Wings at Monkey Junction. Hidden behind that unmarked door, is a huge surfboard factory occupying 3/4 of that retail space. The dry cleaner only has a tiny space inside the building.

The Greenroom makes and markets their own epoxy resin, all over the US. Their epoxy is one of the best on the market.

The Greenroom also builds one of the highest quality custom boards out there. A little known secret, is that most all surfboards are made with E cloth. But, the Greenroom uses lots of S cloth in their boards. S cloth is twice the cost of E, so 90% of surfboards do not contain any S cloth. But not at the Greenroom. They use the best stuff out there. Check them out next Saturday. You'll be glad you did.

I get my supplies there. You can pick up a custom board, or buy a kit for building one yourself and maybe get a few tips while there. Jimmy is very generous when it comes to helping home builders.

P.S. I hope everyone caught the fantastic surf tonight. The best session we've caught since the hurricanes were in town.

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