Well, Spring is here, a small NW and SW swell combo is running and the beautiful 5’10 Pendoflex arc tail quad that Steve built for Matt is ready! The paint is reminiscent of looking through clear water on a sunny day and seeing the kelp above. There was some fog this morning and we enjoyed […]
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New Pendoflex moon tail quad for Ben
Hey-O! here’s the new Pendoflex moon tail quad that Steve built for Ben. Steve hand-shaped this beauty using a WNC EPS blank and then he glassed it with epoxy. The rad camouflage paint job was sprayed by our pal Jeffrey Meyer. Ben is a tall, strapping lad of about 6’4 with size 14-1/2 feet, who […]
Sharing the Stoke at the Rincon Invitational
The article is from this week’s Ventura Star. Check out the Groundswell Society web site. http://www.groundswellsociety.org/
Pendo-ized Campbell Bros. Octafish and day in the life
Mike from San Clemente contacted Steve about Pendo-izing his beautiful bronze Campbell Brothers Octafish shaped by Malcom Campbell. Here are Mike and Steve with the Pendo-sized board. The deck was pounded out, so Steve repaired it and shaped in a full deck Pendoflex. This board looks like so much fun! Cowa-flexit! During our morning walk […]
Salute to the Fish!
Here’s a salute to the Fish commemorating the Alley Fish Fry in Australia this weekend at Corrumbin. We wish we could be there! We send our warm smiles, love and Aloha to the kind folks at the Fish Fry and to all of our friends around the world. Here are a few of our favorite […]
Beautiful Pendoflex Swallowtail for Mike
Steve shaped this sweet double-stringer swallow tail for Mike in NY from a special blank with cedar stringers and orange glue-ups. It’s shaped and ready for paint—the color is coming soon! San Diego Aloha, Cowa-flexit!
Transient Beauty
San Diego has had about 2 to 2-1/2 inches of rain for each month this year so far and we’re grateful for the rain. The California native plants and wildflowers are thriving and a joy to see. Each day on our early morning walk, we’ve been treated to new flowers popping up. This week we […]
Women on Waves exhibit opening, Saturday March 6
Dear friends, we hope that you can come see this wonderful exhibit, it opens on Saturday March 6 from 1-4, and will be up through January 2011. Cowa-flexit, Aloha! Invitation copy from the California Surfing Museum follows: Women On Waves: Performance, Beach Fashion, and Feminine Mystique in the World of Surfing Please join us Saturday, […]
Memory lane Lis-Pendoflex
Here’s a special board from our quiver. Stevie Lis shaped this 5’10 fish for Cher in 1989 (thank you, Stevie) and Steve Pendo-ized it with a full rubber deck (thank you, Steve). For the graceful dolphin—which was one of our mascots of the time—Steve cut the dolphin pattern out of the black foam and inlaid the […]
Moonset moments in time
The full moon and moonsets have been beautiful and the tidal swings have been wild, even causing some flooding at the beach here in the mornings with the big swell that we had last weekend. We’re appreciating the memory of the moonset with the peaceful morning light and the shore birds soaring along the waters […]
