Here’s the beautiful Pendo fishy quad that Steve built for Dick. We’re looking forward to seeing Dick flying on his new board soon! Aloha!
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Jason carving on his Pendoflex Hullabaloo
Here’s our friend Jason ripping a beautiful cuttie on his 5’6″ Pendoflex Hullabaloo single fin. “My new pendo hull just blew my mind, it’s best board I have had in a long time……I can’t wait to try it at the Queen,” says Jason. Thanks Jason for the great photo and for sharing stoke about your […]
Celebration of Life for Kit Horn, Pioneer Waterman
Aloha. On April 17th at 2 PM family and friends gathered at Beacons in Leucadia to celebrate the life of Kit Horn, 80, the greatly loved and inspirational pioneer surfer and waterman. We gathered at the north end of Beacons beach and paddled out to Kit’s reef. While we were paddling out, there was a […]
Pendos’ eye view of the Sacred Craft Ventura weekend
Hey there! We enjoyed a fun trip up to Sacred Craft in Ventura on April 10-11. As always, it was wonderful to see friends and what everyone was up to. There were many beautiful boards and the adventure was varied throughout the weekend. Early on Saturday morning we laid out some of our favorite Pendoflex […]
Spring beauty and congratulations to friends!
Here’s a photo of last Friday afternoon before we drove up to Ventura for the Sacred Craft, showing the mixed swell and the pretty wildflowers of spring. We’ll have some photos from Sacred Craft-Ventura ready to post soon. A big congratulations go to our very talented friends Wayne Rich, who won the Tribute to the […]
Justin McG Pendoflexing
Wow! Here’s our friend Justin skillfully driving his Pendoflex, torquing through fun barrels in San Diego earlier this year. We’re stoked and are right there with you! All of these beautiful tube sequences were shot by Jesse Harloff of Tiburon Photography. Thank you very much Justin for sharing the great photos. Cowa-flexit! Justin is a […]
Completing the 6’7 high aspect fish, glassing and making fins
Sometimes family projects take awhile to complete, because it’s all about the love. The 6’7 Geppie-inspired high aspect fish was shaped by Cher on August 21, 2009. Here are a few photos of the shaping and the completion of the board. Several visual memories inspired the painting: The water flowing along through the reef where […]
Sweet Pendoflex swallowtail for MM and beautiful waves
The sweet Pendoflex swallowtail trifin that Steve built for Mike M is now in the North East, ready to ride and we’re looking forward to hearing stories. Steve designed and hand-shaped Mike’s board from a special blank with twin cedar stringers and orange glue-ups. We painted his board with mellow coast to coast sunrise and […]
The new 8’4 Pendoflex twin fin for Max
Hey, oh! Here’s the beautiful new 8’4 Pendoflex twin fin that Steve built for Max, painted with the colors of a Santa Ana sunset. Max and his family live near PV, where he loves to surf the cove and beachies up that way. He also enjoys yearly adventures to Costa Rica. Aloha and Cowa-flexit!
Meet the Pendoflex Fang
Steve experimented with some finless designs in the mid-1970s. Back then, he shaped a 5’10, 20-1/4 wide fish and added a flexible Fang tail to see if it would help a finless board hold into the wave. He found out that the Fang, as long as it was in the water, would help him make […]
