Hello, there! Steve built a beautiful, custom Pendoflex swallowtail for Mr. R.P. It’s on his way, now!
Cowa-flexit and Aloha!
New Pendoflex for Mr. S.S.
Hey, there. Here’s a beautiful winger moontail quad Pendoflex that Steve built for Mr. S.S. It’s painted with colors of the ocean.
Aloha, and Cowa-flexit!
Eric’s new Pendoflex fish
Hello, there! This morning the marine layer overcast skies are back, and the lighting was soft and mellow. With the windswell mixing in with the remaining southwest, the water has dropped again to the mid-high 50s! Brrr. . . this has been a cold summer.
Steve shaped a new 5’11 Pendoflex keel fish for Eric using EPS foam. Here’s a photo of the bottom, with art painted by Steve.
Cowa-flexit!
Pendos’ eye view of the Sacred Craft in San Diego
Hello, there. Here’s a selection of photos of some of the friendly folks and beautiful boards at the Sacred Craft surfboard show in San Diego, August 14th. The show was fun. We wish we could have spent more time, but work has been busy and that’s a good thing! We had fun with a family birthday on Saturday the 21st so time at the shaping room and in the water was in order. ‘More soon on that front. Aloha!
Eli and Sei heading in
Selection of beautiful boards and a tribute to Dick Brewer poster
The inspiring Simmons Effect exhibit was curated by Barry Hahn of the Surfing Heritage Foundation. It's wonderful to see this tribute to Bob Simmons.
This striking photograph of the legendary Mike Diffenderfer is by Jeff Divine.
The Art of Shaping 2010 was presented by Billabong, and featured beautiful boards by top Orange County shapers. It was an honor to shoot portraits of most of the shapers for this event.
Hank and Shelly Warner with their boys
The Baker family
Nice boards by Larry Mabile
George Gall and Larry Ricci at the Plus One booth
Carl and Denise Ekstrom
It was fun to see this nice shot of Carl surfing Windansea displayed with his beautiful boards.
Jon and Rosa Wegener
Josh Hall was back from Spain and all smiles.
Terry Martin and Bob "The Greek" Bolen at the Art of Shaping reception
What a fun day. That evening, The Art of Shaping 2010 presented by Billabong raised over $45,000 for worthy charities in the surfboard auction.
Cowa-flexit!
The Art of Shaping 2010, Orange County Edition presented by Billabong
The Billabong Art of Shaping 2010, Orange County Edition poster
Royce Cansler and the folks at Billabong did an amazing job organizing the Billabong Art of Shaping, Orange County Edition charity benefit. I was honored to shoot portraits of most of the shapers for the poster, event displays and web site. This was an exciting experience, as more than fifty years of Orange County shaping was represented. The boards and shaper displays were exhibited at ASR on Friday and then on Saturday at the Sacred Craft surfboard show. On Saturday evening at the Art of Shaping reception, the exquisite boards were auctioned off for charity. The beneficiaries include:
Keep a Breast, B4BC – Boarding for Breast Cancer, Surfer’s Healing, Jimmy Miller Foundation, AccesSurf Hawaii, Mauli Ola Foundation, Best Day Foundation, Outdoor Outreach, Stoked Mentoring, Life Rolls On, Project Wipeout, Surf Aid International, and Sumba Foundation. For more information check out :
http://www.billabong.com/artofshaping/benafactors10.html
Here are photos of the boards and displays at ASR on Friday.
Bob "The Greek" Bolen
Barry Vandermeulen
Bill Stewart
Bob Hurley
Bruce Jones
Cole Simler
Jeff "Doc" Lausch
Ed Sakal
Jeff Timpone
Matt Biolos. Due to the crowd, I missed a photo of Matt's board and display. This photo is borrowed from JP at SurfySurfy, thanks JP.
Mickey Munoz
Peter Schroff
Rich Harbor
Robert August
Roger Hinds
Royce Cansler and Terry Senate
Steve Boehne
Shaun Stussy
Terry Martin
Tim Stamps
Timmy Patterson
Royce and Cher at the Art of Shaping booth. Photo: Ian O'Roarty
Royce and the Billabong folks graciously made a thank you sign “Official Art of Shaping Photographer” and I was very touched. It is an honor to work on this project with Royce and the Billabong team.
Love and Aloha, Cher
El Sarape for Mr. Irwin
Hi, there. Steve built this beautiful 5’8″ Pendoflex swallowtail tri fin for Mr. Irwin. When asked for a painting reminiscent of a Mexican blanket, Steve was happy to oblige!
Cowa-flexit!
El Sarape!
New 6’8″ Pendoflex swallow for Michael
Hello, there! Steve shaped a beautiful 6’8″ swallowtail for his brother Michael, who will traveling to surf left points in Mexico. His new board will have a Future fin system and options for surfing it as a high aspect twin or as a tri-fin. The dimensions are 13-1/4″, 20-5/8″, 15-3/4″. Michael’s board is painted with stripes in colors of the ocean. Bon voyage. . .
Cowa-flexit, Aloha!
Cowa-flexit!
Flex Friday Fun!
Hey there, thanks to everyone who came out for Pendoflex Friday, we’re grateful for the Love and Hubba. What a beautiful day with fun waves and sunshine, wonderful to see good friends, meet new folks and share.
Cowa-flexit, Aloha!
Scott heading out with his Pendoflex
Bird and Malia heading out with the Rubber Rubber Ducky and Many Waves longboard. Have fun!
Bill heading out with his magic 9'6 Pendoflex custom EPS longboard
Ian and precious little Kyra
Kim, Bill, Kaile and Justin
Ian and Kyra, and Ryan with Steve's Lil Black Lab, aka RRDucky #2
Steve and Justin with the Rubber Rubber Ducky
Liz and Greg
Liz and Cher, check out the fun waves!
Pendoflexes!
Pendoflex party!
Rubber Rubber Ducky stories with surfer/mat rider follks
Steve, Lorenzo, Scott and Justin in between surfs. Note the fins and rolled up 4GF mat, variations on flexology applies, tons of fun!
Flex Friday
Hey-Oh! Bird Huffman and Scott Bass had this great idea: Pendoflex Friday, surf and talk story, Cardiff Reef on Friday, July 16th at 8 AM. Bring yours and/or come and borrow a Pendoflex and have fun. Shortboards, longboards, fish, and duckies. Thanks, Birdie and Scott for the hubba!
Cowa-flexit! out for now, Aloha!
Pendoflex Friday!
Jason’s Pendoflex Quad Fish
Hey, there! Jason and his family came for a visit and it was great to spend time. He’s back home on the North Shore with his new Pendoflex quad fish. Thanks, Jason for sharing the photos.
Jason is a talented musician and producer. Check out his blog here http://www.rootstimeproduction.blogspot.com/
Love and Aloha. . .
Cowa-flexit!
Here’s Jason surfing a favorite reef on his Pendoflex thruster.
Jason Murphey Pendoflexing
